Massive GT Cup crash at Macau 2011
#15
11-23-2011, 12:15 PM
Wow, that was crazy, glad to hear everybody is alright. They need to have a school for training these course workers, they have just as much responsibility as the drivers do in slowing down these cars so no one gets hurt. They didn't do there job well enough on this case
#17
11-23-2011, 03:53 PM
Without knowing what really happened prior to this corner you can't blame the course workers.
I suspect a mechanical dumped oil. This the reason the first cars slid around the corner.
I hadn't noticed the hood of the gt3 until you pointed it out and this could have been a number of things. Possibly crew member error. It happens alot. Crews get busy and forget the small stuff. Possibly it took a few laps to break loose and this is the reason the gt3 took that corner at full speed. He couldn't see what was coming and didn't react fast enough when the hood popped.
The corner workers in view are doing everything they can in this instance. Whether the turn before was doing their job who knows but I suspect this was a 1 corner problem. I can't tell if there is a red dot in the middle of those yellow flags or not on my iPad so possibly they were warning of a hazardous mechanical in that corner but it was made worse by that gt3 losing its hood.
Don't be quick to judge turn workers. They've saved mine and 1000'sof lives over the years and I think 99.99999% of them are awesome.
I suspect a mechanical dumped oil. This the reason the first cars slid around the corner.
I hadn't noticed the hood of the gt3 until you pointed it out and this could have been a number of things. Possibly crew member error. It happens alot. Crews get busy and forget the small stuff. Possibly it took a few laps to break loose and this is the reason the gt3 took that corner at full speed. He couldn't see what was coming and didn't react fast enough when the hood popped.
The corner workers in view are doing everything they can in this instance. Whether the turn before was doing their job who knows but I suspect this was a 1 corner problem. I can't tell if there is a red dot in the middle of those yellow flags or not on my iPad so possibly they were warning of a hazardous mechanical in that corner but it was made worse by that gt3 losing its hood.
Don't be quick to judge turn workers. They've saved mine and 1000'sof lives over the years and I think 99.99999% of them are awesome.
#18
11-23-2011, 07:55 PM
Without knowing what really happened prior to this corner you can't blame the course workers.
I suspect a mechanical dumped oil. This the reason the first cars slid around the corner.
I hadn't noticed the hood of the gt3 until you pointed it out and this could have been a number of things. Possibly crew member error. It happens alot. Crews get busy and forget the small stuff. Possibly it took a few laps to break loose and this is the reason the gt3 took that corner at full speed. He couldn't see what was coming and didn't react fast enough when the hood popped.
The corner workers in view are doing everything they can in this instance. Whether the turn before was doing their job who knows but I suspect this was a 1 corner problem. I can't tell if there is a red dot in the middle of those yellow flags or not on my iPad so possibly they were warning of a hazardous mechanical in that corner but it was made worse by that gt3 losing its hood.
Don't be quick to judge turn workers. They've saved mine and 1000'sof lives over the years and I think 99.99999% of them are awesome.
I suspect a mechanical dumped oil. This the reason the first cars slid around the corner.
I hadn't noticed the hood of the gt3 until you pointed it out and this could have been a number of things. Possibly crew member error. It happens alot. Crews get busy and forget the small stuff. Possibly it took a few laps to break loose and this is the reason the gt3 took that corner at full speed. He couldn't see what was coming and didn't react fast enough when the hood popped.
The corner workers in view are doing everything they can in this instance. Whether the turn before was doing their job who knows but I suspect this was a 1 corner problem. I can't tell if there is a red dot in the middle of those yellow flags or not on my iPad so possibly they were warning of a hazardous mechanical in that corner but it was made worse by that gt3 losing its hood.
Don't be quick to judge turn workers. They've saved mine and 1000'sof lives over the years and I think 99.99999% of them are awesome.
Glad to hear that all the drivers are alive, hopefully a speedy recovery for the injured ferrari driver. That was an absolutely nasty crash, watching the porsche get hit that hard was intense.
#19
11-23-2011, 08:05 PM
It was oil, it's written in the original post:
"The audi r8 engine blew up and was leaking oil. The (pro) driver kept racing and spilt oil over the racing line.
This is a very fast corner and drivers barely lift from the throttle going round it; if there is oil on the braking zone, its almost impossible to slow down."
Very scary to watch, I would've been scared as shit being in the gt3. He knew he had a big chance of getting hit. Looks like he clipped the wall before the curve also which would explain why the hood was already open.
"The audi r8 engine blew up and was leaking oil. The (pro) driver kept racing and spilt oil over the racing line.
This is a very fast corner and drivers barely lift from the throttle going round it; if there is oil on the braking zone, its almost impossible to slow down."
Very scary to watch, I would've been scared as shit being in the gt3. He knew he had a big chance of getting hit. Looks like he clipped the wall before the curve also which would explain why the hood was already open.
