Ferrari race car crash (warning: intense)

[prova4re]

(warning: intense)
New link
http://www.aznkid.com/insanecrash.mpg


Here is the Ferrari guy's story.
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200310/29/20031029p2a00m0fp019000c.html

 

[ANYTIME]

I thought that it was just the porsche, then.............

 

[NetViper]

HOly crap!! Just read the link. Still, wow.. what a crash!

 

[len3.8]

I think he was the Ferrari guy.
90 seconds in the fire, Damn...

 

[NeoNSX]

<I>*shakes head in disbelief*</I> That guy deserves the 300mil. That accident is the worst i've ever seen; the sound of that explosion is chilling. It's like something from a hollywood film only more horrific because it's real.

 

[prova4re]

That clip was edited for sound, they even added music to it.

 

[nsxsupra]

What a tragic crash. I am glad the the Ferrari driver is alive.

 

[NSX-Racer]

For me the most important sentence is this one in the article:

"A letter that tries to eliminate one party from taking any responsibility for major accidents caused by gross negligence is incorrect, unfair and not void in this court," presiding judge Ono said.

My fellow racers: Isn't such letter the same as we always underwrite at our racetrack events (at least we do here in Europe)? Do you believe the judges in our countries would decide the same as this japanese judge? If so, would that mean that the papers we sign are obsolete?

I claim this to be a very principal and important issue for our events, the racetrack owners, our clubs and of course for ourselves.

 

[Autophile]

90 million yen, at todays rate, is ~ $850,000. That's a good chunk of change, but not really "massive."

Regardless, I'm glad both of the drivers involved in that mess survived.

 

[gheba_nsx]

The link does not work anymore...

 

[djjoonie]

i think the link doesnt work anymore.... i want to see it!!

 

[prova4re]

http://www.aznkid.com/insanecrash.mpg

 

[jgtcnsx]

wow. thats go to see when you first wake up

 

[D'Ecosse]

That is horrific - but the most incredible sight to me is that of the guy with extinguisher seemingly more worried about addressing minor pieces of grass burning, than quenching the vehicle or helping the poor guy trying to get out completely unassisted! Unbelieveable!

 

[lemansnsx]

The safety crews lack of response is just appalling. Obviously we don't know where they were positioned and how many there were but there is certainly no sign of any fast-response vehicle or anything...
Contrast this crash with Lauda's horrific 1976 fire at the Nurburgring when no less than FOUR other drivers ran INTO the flames to free him from his cockpit.

 

[paladin]

My fellow racers: Isn't such letter the same as we always underwrite at our racetrack events (at least we do here in Europe)? Do you believe the judges in our countries would decide the same as this japanese judge? If so, would that mean that the papers we sign are obsolete?

Thats certainly something to think about, but realize the situation that happened there. It was utter Chaos! how could people have a life-threatening accident on a caution lap?
The way in which that race was run suggests GROSS negligence, which you cant waiver your way out of

 

[NSX-Racer]

Just read that this topic is already one year old - judgement was made in october 2003 - I'm pretty sure it had already consequences until nowadays - at least in Japan.

 

[NetViper]

OH MY GOD. I do not know what you did, but if you click on that link you get one RUDE ASS picture!!!!

 

[lemansnsx]

Brian,

That's just mean making me look at s*** like that. That is the nastiest a**hole I've had the misery seeing. Someone obviously did a a switch but, just nasty!

Tim

Feel free to e-mail [email protected] and tell him how you feel. That's one of the nastiest damn things I've ever seen and switching the picture to that one is just needlessly offensive.

If the original poster reads this before Lud gets to it can you please delete the link so that nobody else has to see that? TIA.

 

[Arshad]

Aggh!! Anyone have the original link still?

 

[lemansnsx]

Aggh!! Anyone have the original link still?

That IS the original (well, almost) link. The owner of the sillbeer.com site must have noticed the traffic and objected to it being linked here (and perhaps elsewhere). Of course, he could have just taken the file down and left it instead of posting that horrible picture! Oh well, takes all kinds...

 

[prova4re]

Sorry guy's, the link DID work.

 

[apapada]

has anybody here saved it on his local drive ?

 

[AutoEuphoria]

Just amazing to see how quickly it ignited. Very scary moment for everyone there, I bet. I think it's a rediculously low amount of money to give someone for the negligence that caused the ending of his career, especially when we give people MILLIONS here for being stupid and spilling coffee on themselves.

 

[ajnsx]

He was on a tv show here in Japan early last year, dealing with accident/operations and life afterwards, including the court situations. Freaky.