To me it looked like he was racing along the wrong lines which put him wide onto the dirt/dust where he pretty much lost it and went over the edge. The red car that came just after him drove through there nicely. Ambitions exceeding capabilities, possibly.
I think the main problem apart from that,they don't know how to set them up,to hard in the arse,an old Porker needs a soft rear end.
a smart person would have stopped and put it out , but then that might have made it worse would have driving it faster caused it to burn more ???
You would be surprised how useless the typical small in-car hand held extinguisher really is, especially if you are not trained to use it properly. Very much like pissing into a bush fire. If the circumstances were a hot exhaust igniting the carbon fibre bodywork, they made the right call. Chances are they couldn't put it out themselves anyway. However, if it was a petrol or an oil fire that would probably have been a bad call. They couldn't have known at the time, so it was a big call to drive to the end of the stage.
as you said the small hand ones are a token,years ago I had fire on the Brabham at a friday practice,leaking fuel onto loose coil lead,hand held waste of time,thank Christ the fires were on the ball,otherwise the Brabham would have melted.
ya i cant understand some people , invest that much money in a car and just put a crappy small fire extinguisher, ya i know its to save weight but still
I was first on scene car just caught alight not so long ago.. jumped from coach I was driving with fat 2kg in hand but this had caught onto fuel/oil/rubber under the hood sufficiently long enough and there was no stopping it and I reckon I happened on the scene must be barely 30 seconds after it starting.. I carry 1 kg in-car and 2kg in boot now which I know won't stop something that's got a hold but I figure it's way more in hand than maybe 95% of the driving population would have to help themselves.
possibly? wtf, he was using right foot to control throttle, crashes happen when capabilities are exceeded, if he was driving slower within his own abilities then he would have taken the corner properly, he punted too hard, didnt know the car and went off the road, thankfully it wasnt a ravine with a 1000 foot drop. If he was on a track he would have have run off and hit an armco. I would like to see in car footage.........bit like this other person, one would think to take up knitting instead 2011 targa high country [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUqOP0OLu-A[/ame] 2010 targa tas same driver [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySTdaaAvjqw[/ame] 2011 targa tas....same driver [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e28vr76ENJg[/ame]
That last one was just a complete cluster ****. It would have been in the course notes, it had danger warning signs and if he was properly prepared, he would have known about it from recce. No excuses, that was just very poor and he could have killed someone. Imagine if it had gone end over end at that speed
Taking up knitting is good advice.......didn't have a clue - off line, damp? surface, too fast into a blind corner, didn't even see the corner, the classic duh, what happened. I thought pace notes were used in the Targa?
That last one was just a complete cluster ****. It would have been in the course notes, it had danger warning signs and if he was properly prepared, he would have known about it from recce. No excuses, that was just very poor and he could have killed someone. Imagine if it had gone end over end at that speed
He sure wasn't listening to his nav calls! You could hear panic rising in her voice and she sees they're coming at it very wrong for what's being called. After having done 3 Classic's as nav it's not easy being in passenger seat and you want to team up with someone with the right ambitions and confidence they won't kill both of you. You CAN take it as just a *very* spirited country run with good notes and teamwork.. doesn't have to end in tears but some seem to treat it like Spa.. ok if you're one of handful who can do it.. (eg Jim Richards & co) but risky most others going beyond their abilities on place little forgiveness for errors or just plain bad luck (we had flock of emus cover entire road on one stage one year and *just* enough sight & warning to avoid). .
Having met the driver.......he is a bit up himself and always had a dig at me about the using a 360CH as a rally car............guess what, this bloke has spent more money fixing things than what the 360CH originally cost me. He gets Rallyart to prepare his car/s turns up, sits on a deck chair and then when its time to drive---gets in and crashes, then gets on plane and goes home....and rallyart fix the crap up
