215MPH RX-7 Crash

BlueMP5Dave · Nov 17, 2003

Found this last night had never seen it before. RIP Racin Beat RX-7

http://nicotine.golden.net/Movies/Racing Beat RX-7 crash@215 mph.avi

if you pause the movie and let it buffer it helps. Best link I could find.

zmepro · Nov 17, 2003

yow, needs more downforce i would say

CruzinAltitude · Nov 17, 2003

zmepro said:
yow, needs more downforce i would say

I was thinking that maybe downforce was the culprit. It looks like at one point the Front Passenger side starts to dip down, like there is uneven downforce, or too much on that side, then it spins, then airborne. Not sure, considering I dont know a whole hell of a lot about downforce in suce extreme applications.

Vulcanon · Nov 17, 2003

needed a bigass spoiler, that's what it needed

charles · Nov 17, 2003

I believe it was stock rideheight / body.

Padanky · Nov 17, 2003

it's a good thing that parachute came out in time, or his car would've been trashed!

richelesro · Nov 17, 2003

Ah yes. The FD crash. The FD body produces a lift on the front end around 210mph. It's really hard to counter that with the body style.

FC3s Boy · Nov 17, 2003

That bad boy hit 248mph.

*SpLiT* · Nov 17, 2003

looks like a wind factor..... even with a wing i doubt it woulda stayed on the ground......

traitorhound · Nov 17, 2003

CF windsplitter yo

boostisgood · Nov 17, 2003

At least it satyed running.

Gotta love the rotarys.

Speedplease · Nov 17, 2003

Yeah needed a big wing and some stickers!!!

Leadfoot · Nov 17, 2003

All I can say is thank God for Roll cages....looked like the driver probably just walked away with some very wet shorts!

RAAZ227 · Nov 17, 2003

wow.....

kcbhiw · Nov 17, 2003

FYI, the car was actually rebuilt. If I had the link, I'd post it.

Togan · Nov 17, 2003

poor driver, the parachute does work either..

mrpopnfresh · Nov 17, 2003

It just makes me want the FD even more...

Roywhitep5 · Nov 17, 2003

well it could have been way worse. i think that damage is actually mild compared to most fd traffic accidents. i saw a red fd one day that flipped over and the roof was flattened

ELEmental59437 · Nov 18, 2003

roywhitep5 said:
well it could have been way worse. i think that damage is actually mild compared to most fd traffic accidents. i saw a red fd one day that flipped over and the roof was flattened

Gotta love roll-cages

Antoine · Nov 18, 2003

One day....one day

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