Hey Guys,

Just came across this on another forum, apparently a tire blew and caused this crash. The driver and passenger survived the crash with minor injuries (wow!).

Thank god nobody was severely harmed!

Drive safe everybody and have your cars checked regularly! I wouldnt want to be taken by surprise at 300kmh+!

Regards,
Y.

The pictures are horrifying!

Ferrariunfall auf der A7 Fotostrecken Laatzen Aus der Region Hannover / HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine

 

Wow! Great to see the F1 technology even in the way the car breaks up around the cockpit.

Incredible

 

Wow! That must have been terrifying! Kudos to Ferrari and their engineering. Its amazing no one was killed at that speed.

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Must have been quite a ride.

 

that guard rail saved two lives. without it, they would have crashed into that retaining wall and reduced survivability greatly.

if the car was made of CF, i wonder if the driver would survive. i still would take steel and alum over CF when it comes to the cage/tub.

 

In theory at least, CF would be safer.

With the right weave/epoxy, carbon fiber can be as strong as steel, yet weigh a good amount less. In college I had a co-op job at a company that made identical parts in steel and cf. The steel parts were too heavy to be picked up by hand, and the cf parts could. So a car can be made equally as strong(er) yet weigh weigh less (as everyone knows). In a crash this is better since the car would have less kinetic energy than the steel/aluminum car at the same speed. In a crash you need the car to absorb and dissipate the kinetic energy of the moving car and keep it away from the people inside.

Also, when cf fails, it shatters/explodes, which may seem bad in a crash, but it's not as bad as it seems. The splinters can be dangerous, but more importantly in a crash, as it explodes, it dissipates a lot of energy.

So in the theoretical car, you would make the passenger tub much stronger than the "crumple zones," so in a crash the crumple zones would fail, dissipating the kinetic energy the car had as it crashed. Ideally all of the energy would go into blowing apart the cf that is designed to fail, while leaving the tub (and people) intact.

I'm an engineer but not an automotive engineer so this may not be 100% accurate, but in theory it makes sense.




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If i remember correctly, there was a tire recall on our scuds, for this exact reason...chance of blowout at high speeds.

 

exact !
each owner received a letter from Ferrari that communicated the urgent need to replace the tires.. Ferrari..OK !
Apart from that, the tire pressure must be monitored especially before a trip "fast".

 

For the 1 millionth time ppl, it's 430 Scuderia, not F430!