12-03-2013, 05:33 AM | #1 |
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130i crashes spectacularly
Happened last week-end in Zandvoort during BMW drivers days.
Fortunately both pilots escaped unscathed. Source : http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/9091/Time-o...ers-Days.dhtml |
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Helmets, six point harnesses and a roll cage is working well in crashes like this, but a production car is not so far behind. In the old days, the difference was light night and day, but modern technology has been catching up. In fact, you have to know what you are doing to improve the collision safety with a roll cage now, since you are making the interior of the car more dangerous with all the tubes.
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That's a terrible crash!
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With new cars, I have found the best way to recover such a situation (once it is too late to catch the slide in a controlled way), is to step on the clutch pedal and pull the handbrake. Stay off the brake pedal. This will cause the car to swap ends and miss the inside edge of the corner. When the car is starting to go towards the outside, go hard on the brakes again. |
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That is indeed a spectacular crash. Looks like the cage did a nice job keeping the occupants safe on the rollover.
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Pretty violent. Don't believe they would survive in a road car, the roll cage and racing harness kept them within the car. As a volunteer paramedic, I am appalled to see the emergency services not immobilise them before they went in for a once over by the doctors. Whiplash almost certain.
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I was being entirely facetious, I am hardly qualified to criticise or have an alternate view on this subject. I own/owned a couple of cars that could provide this level of excitement but I can confirm they have never been airborne Iran sideways. And hopefully that's how it will stay.
May I ask how you are so knowledgeable in this area?
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Although I have run off tracks plenty of times, I have very little experience with actually crashing myself. I have seens plenty of other cars flip over, though. |
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I sure does, although it probably oversells my abilities. All the trophies in the picture were won with that 318i, but the thing is that the 318i was slow enough to not run against the fastest cars. Sometimes there was not all that hot competition in my class.
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