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Steve Sutcliffe
As part of some good natured banter at a friend's house last night, the subject of the 'wonderful' Steve Sutcliffe of Autocar came up and his recent impressive lap time in the Honda F1 car - within 4-tenths of a second of Honda's test driver apparently. I postulated that if he was so great, how come he piled an S into an Armco once - in the wet I seem to recall.
I'm hoping my recollection is correct concerning the mighty Sutcliffe and the S and if so, if anyone has a copy of the article he wrote about his incident, a scan would be much appreciated...
I'm hoping my recollection is correct concerning the mighty Sutcliffe and the S and if so, if anyone has a copy of the article he wrote about his incident, a scan would be much appreciated...
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If Sebastien Loeb is so good, why did he once stack his Citroen WRC car into a tree in Australia? (this might not be the right country)
Can't find anything on him crashing an S, sure you got the right guy?
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Can't find anything on him crashing an S, sure you got the right guy?
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Originally Posted by Useful,Mar 16 2008, 11:42 PM
Stacking an S is only indicative of how close to the edge you dangle the car - and how competent you are of bringing it back from the wrong side of that edge.
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Sorry - I should have provided a bit more detail here. It wasn't on a track that the S was trashed, I'm pretty sure it was on a public road during the course of an objective road test.
I can relate to 'pushing the envelope' during a track test - but stacking a road test car on a public road is amateur.
I can relate to 'pushing the envelope' during a track test - but stacking a road test car on a public road is amateur.
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There was once an autotester who blew up the V10 in a Carrera GT at Porsche's own press day. Changed down from 5 to 2 instead of 4, no rev limiter fitted to the press demo, blew the cylinders clean through the engine cover so they reckon.
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No he didn't stack it.
IIRC He did recover a mighty tank slapper in Belgium on a sodden motorway with Goodwin beside him, it was at this point they realized they didn't like it....
Another writer parked the rear end of a long term S2000 into a barrier accelerating after coming off a wet roundabout...sound familiar to anyone?
Strangley they never really mentioned the outcome....don't know whether the long term tests differed back then & they didn't mention the accidents etc?
IIRC He did recover a mighty tank slapper in Belgium on a sodden motorway with Goodwin beside him, it was at this point they realized they didn't like it....
Another writer parked the rear end of a long term S2000 into a barrier accelerating after coming off a wet roundabout...sound familiar to anyone?
Strangley they never really mentioned the outcome....don't know whether the long term tests differed back then & they didn't mention the accidents etc?
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Originally Posted by ferrarilover,Mar 17 2008, 10:09 AM
There was once an autotester who blew up the V10 in a Carrera GT at Porsche's own press day. Changed down from 5 to 2 instead of 4, no rev limiter fitted to the press demo, blew the cylinders clean through the engine cover so they reckon.
Matt.
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