Hey, you guys who drive up Pikes Peak had better be careful!!!!!!!!
http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2012/08/15/race-car-crash-youtube.cnn.htm l
Good grief! Did the driver make it out all right? His brains must have been scrambled after that.
I suspect his brains were scrambled before the crash.
haha good point Gus.
"Both Foley and Kouznetsov walked away from the wreck. Kouznetsov reportedly suffered a dislocated shoulder, while Foley had no broken bones, according to reports."
See:http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/08/race-car-driver-plunges-off-colora do-mountain/
We thought of that possibility when we were coming down too!. Coming down was not horrible when we did it a couple of months ago. Low ruckstell, high gear. do not use your brakes until you got to a turn, then apply slightly, cut the corner if you could and continue on.
One of the videos I have on youtube i believe shows this turn.
John
I'll have the air foil properly adjusted on MY T if I ever try this! LOL
Other than common sense tells you to drive sanely, is there a reason guardrails are not used?
It's a private road. Maybe they don't want to spend the money for guardrails.
Any guardrail that could stop that much energy would have probably killed them... as brutal as that crash looks, the car was scrubbing off energy the whole way down rather than an abrupt stop.
I don't think he's crazy, given the chance I'd race up that mountain too. The crazy one was the guy in the passenger seat.
Traveling in the Alpine region of Bavaria on a bus, with a Bavarian counterpart, I mentioned the lack of guardrails on some of these hairpin turns, which, to me, seemed impossible to navigate with a long wheelbase bus .. the front of the bus was overhanging the drop off the road, on the curves .. and even on the straights .. looking out and down through the window .. it seemed as though the side of the bus was off the road, also! I mentioned boy .. in the US we probably wouldn't be able to get the bus through these curves because of the guardrails. I asked why there weren't more guards up, and he said if you are stupid enough to go too fast on the corners, you deserve to go off the cliff!
'nuff said! :-)
I would suggest they line up a group of lawyers at that corner next time. That way if a car goes over again something good will come of it. In fact the survivors can then sue each other for not stopping the car!
It's not a lack of money thing it is for snow removal. Harder to move the snow up and over a guard rail.
They were on the Today show this morning. Both looked in pretty good shape except for dislocated shoulder.
Driving in the Rocky's several years ago I was surprised on the lack of guard rails compared to my midwest state.
Re Dennis's comment. On a visit to a mountain top pathway in Switzerland I commented to our guide on the split rail type fence that was the only thing from keeping a kid from going over the cliff. I stated in the US there would be all kinds of lawsuits on the inadequacy of the fence. He said here the parents are expected to be responsible for their kid's actions. WOW.
Good thing for them it was a race car with a roll cage.
Thumbs up John, sounds like a "sound" idea to me.....lol
In case you were wondering what the driver was seeing...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=027_1345189330