What was your closest call when driving your Ferrari?

Sorry guys, didn't mean to get off topic

 

Try Santa Monica in Misano, fewer walls and more gravel traps....

 

Yes I am! & its just under an hour from me. I was instructing during that event and this happened on Sunday afternoon.

...and back to the topic

 

Session 3 Texas World Speedway, 2007, June, Passenger John Teague

Coming out of turn 2 at 96-ish MPH it was clear for several seconds that at least the outside two tires would leave the paved surface, a couple seconds later it became clear that the inside tires would also leave the paved surface. Throttle was in a position where it would not be wise to back out. Car left the paved surface and on the dirt it started to rotate but continued the arc it was on coming back onto the paved surface with a significant YAW with respect to the direction of travel. I made a big correction on the steering wheel waited what seemed to be an eternity, then removed the correction. The car landed dead straight, I hit the brakes for turn three, and the rest was history.

The though left in my head was: "If you are going to drive this close to the edge, you are going to need a roll cage and fire suppression equipment."

 

Not in a Ferrari, but my Audi few years ago.

They say to avoid driving at night in Mexico. Learned a lesson why they advise that.

We had had just had dinner in a nice restaurant a few miles from the condo we were staying at. It was about 10PM and returning to the condo. We were on a 4 lane road and I was overtaking a large truck. When alongside the the truck, I saw a dead cow in my lane. Unable to brake in time to stop and the truck preventing me from swerving to the right, I made an emergency swerve to left to avoid the cow carcass. The road there had concrete curbing that defined the center median strip. The left wheels hit the curb which was about six inches high or so and the car was launched up in the air. We missed the f%#ing cow, but nearly flipped the car. After gaining control and coming to stop, I found that the left front suspension had been damaged and my left front wheel now had a very severe toe-in.

Some locals stopped to make sure we were ok and they thought I had hit the cow. They were amazed how well built the Audi was as it showed no impact damage from the cow.

In Mexico, the fields frequently have no fences and livestock frequently graze near roads, sometimes straying onto the roads. Have seen heavy trucks down there with steel "cow catchers" welded on to the front.

 

watching my friend dump the clutch pulling out of a convenience store onto a busy street, and doing a 180 into on coming traffic.

:doh:

 

Mind if I borrow that? (cause I intend to...LOL)