Anybody see this, or were you at the track that day. So much for sedans not needing roll bars!

http://www.ilovebacon.com/vehicles/071001b.shtml

 

Since the federal gov't (DUH, I mean HUD) won't allow me to check ILB out during the day, is it the same as I posted here?

 

Yep same pic, Pretty Nasty!!

 

Summit Point is a nasty facility... A friend wrote off his Toyota Atlantic testing there. There are some immovable objects pretty near the track. I wonder if this M3 hit the dirt embankment than my friend hit.

There are other tracks that are safer, but anything can happen. Of course, if you are going off course just go straight... it's always better to go head-on into stuff than rolling over.

This is why I refuse to take the Stook to an open track... the stakes are so high. Can you imagine this same accident in a Stook? I plan to do some road-racing next season... in a car with an approved cage! My heart goes out to the family of the victim(s) from that M3... no-one could survive that. Period.

 

J - they seemed to live. Read the instructor comment in the email note.

 

The roof is flatten like that b/c all the pillars are cut to get the
driver & instructor out... This is someone on the bimmer.org
board.... The driver also claimed that he's didn't enter the
turn hot nor early like the instructor said... he just made a
bad judgement and over-correct the car in the turn...
The driver I believe is 31 years old.

 

Gregg said that the guy was released from the hospital 2 hours after being admitted, and NO, it really did flatten like that.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Saini
[B]Summit Point is a nasty facility...