Thanks guys. There is a rock plant right there and there was tiny gravel and rock dust all over the ground. Tred on the front 2 tires was good, but I needed new backs. Have roughly 20% tred on backs per Madcowdk. I was shifting from 3rd to 4th (was considering passing the person in front) and there was so much rock dust on the road it started to fishtail.... it was all over from there.. No correcting b/c no traction in that stuff.... In the pic I'm the one in shorts and Madcowdk is on the left. Good friend.. came straight from work and his wife watched my kids as my wife took me to the hospital.

 

You know...I completely forgot about this thread. My contribution is in the form of a video, and it wasn't due to bald rears or anything (though the rear tires were down to 50% at time of accident), but rather complete driver error. I was at the local go-kart track for an auto cross event, lifted off the throttle mid corner and caused the car to snap in the direction I didn't want it to go. Result was me going through a fence and causing $6,500CAD in damage. The video shows the accident from my wind visor cam, pictures of the damage and photos of the repair process.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyYoBARvcL4 [/media]

 

The way you were driving out there, I'm surprised you didn't crash sooner...

 

*nod* I'm fully aware of how I was driving. It was supposed to be the final fun run of the day, I had run a decent time before, so I was able to put getting a fast time into the back of my mind and aimed for some fun. Boy, was that a mistake. Since then I've quit auto crossing, paying for the accident financially crippled me, so I'm playing catch up.

 

As soon as I get into my car, first thing I do is turn off my VSA. Call me crazy, but I prefer it off. The car still has a crazy snapping back oversteer, almost wrapped a tree when I didnt know how to handle it . All the dust on the road would do it though yea...

Glad to hear you walked away just fine!

 

Sorry to hear about the crash, but quitting autocrossing isn't the answer IMO. If anything, autocross more to learn your limits better. Try getting some instruction or driving a more open course. I realize you may have been pushing it more than normal on the last run, but you were WAY overdriving the car. Smooth is fast. Being jerky with steering/throttle/brakes causes slow times and spins (as you no doubt have learned).

 

That was a cool video.. and it sucks you hit a fence of all things too, but you were overdriving the car - I'm surprised you didn't get flagged for that!

 

Coffee run gone astray: https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.ph...ic=805112&st=0

 

Street racing, hit a wall: https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.ph...ic=802263&st=0



Plus a cool rebuild story on a replacement S.

 

wow!