and I wonder why we dont do rallies any longer....wtf [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnxWDp7mFE[/ame]
was told this morning by another competitor that there would be more fire people at the finish and they needed to finish the stage to win the whole event.
I watched an R32 GTR burn to the ground on my second Targa. Half a dozen extinguishes did nothing to even slow the fire down. There was not a single salvagable part left. The car was owned and run by a Japanese crew through the same people who looked after my car. They had to take the wreck to customs to prove it was a total loss as customs didn't believe them. The car ended up as landfill.
Yup this was the reason. A few of my mates went over there for reconissance as they are doing it next year and spoke to White. He said that if they stopped mid course the car would have burnt to the ground as there were no fire marshalls to put it out. He said that the carbon caught fire from the exhaust getting too hot..
I think Carbon fibre has a high tempertature resistance but the resins that stick the carbon threads does not. So if the temperature gets too hot i.e exhaust then the resin can burn and cause the carbon fibres to fall apart. I may be wrong though..
Yeah,but it never stopped him and his missus from coming back time after time. I have a feeling Kobayashi smashed another as well,in a later event. Dreadful English but lovely couple and one of the best ambassadors' for the event in Japan,that's why so many competed in the earlier days.
This one is of one of the Porsches that came to a bit of grief and both drivers were OK [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3J53iUWIfE[/ame] Just slipped off the edge without the next car even noticing.
Thanks for that, I have to repair that Porsche, at least I can do a quote from youtube, cant say iv'e ever done that before.
And that's just how easy it is to 'fly' off the track and hurt or kill yourself. Scary stuff! The car copped a beating also, glad both guys were not hurt.
