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Old 04-29-2010, 12:35 PM
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Default Thunderhill T14 crash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu0Wt98TT6c

this was a walk-away!
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Old 04-29-2010, 12:52 PM
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WTF happened?? Lost the brakes??
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Old 04-29-2010, 12:54 PM
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Lucky to walk away.
I wonder what the car looks like.
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Old 04-29-2010, 12:56 PM
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Holy sh*&............. That was a hard hit.
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Originally Posted by Brian A.
WTF happened?? Lost the brakes??
the beginning of his commentary is cut off, but I think he said, "take the outside with no brakes or try and take the inside and cut off some speed" wow.
would like to know if he was wearing a HANS.
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Originally Posted by Brian A.
WTF happened?? Lost the brakes??
Looks like he ran out of talent first, then locked the brakes. Wow.









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Unless the brakes didn't work on initial application, which would explain the accident, the skid marks exiting the turn show that there had to have been some brakes working by that point.
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he posted this on youtube:

In-car video of what happens when your brakes fail

and then:

The crash was due to a brake line failure
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Originally Posted by Larry Herman
Unless the brakes didn't work on initial application, which would explain the accident, the skid marks exiting the turn show that there had to have been some brakes working by that point.
Looking at the skid marks (not very dark) and the behavior of the car, I would guess he lost on circuit of his brakes. I would suspect he lost the fronts or one diagonal, depending on his brake set up. (Spoken from experience with this particular situation.)
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It almost seems as though it throttle was hung up a bit as well. Lucky guy and glad to see him be able to video the scene afterward!!
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That was a wild ride. He was carrying a lot of speed into the corner compared to the car in front of him.
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I like the rescue guy... "dude that was spectacular"....
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Wow. That was quite a hit. It broke the freaking retaining wall!!!
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