Trax is the worst driving standards I've ever seen on a uk racetrack. Fun though!
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6 month old Megane Crash @ Castle Combe today *Action Pics*
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172 Cup
What actually caused the crash?
Daniel
ClioSport Moderator
Whichever has fuel
He suffered from LOFT at Avon rise. It only happens to a few but when it does, there's nothing you can do but hold on and hope for the best.
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
That onboard vid is comedy gold. I feel for the guy, clearly had no idea how bad the damage was when it had just happened. Neither did the girl when she said 'I won't say anything until we've seen the damage, but that was quite cool' - yeah, 20k worth of cool.
Particularly lol'd at the beginning when he overtakes when he shouldn't have and says 'oh, have I been naughty'. Yes Rodney, yes you have.
Particularly lol'd at the beginning when he overtakes when he shouldn't have and says 'oh, have I been naughty'. Yes Rodney, yes you have.
I hope you weren't being serious there , but alot of those line were not great , his attention to what was going on around him being poor started from the off. Very poor track day driving with little consideration for others , so what if the corsa did not want to let him past , back off and then take him somewhere else.
The reason he has the accident (without seeing a camera pointing at him) , the female passenger mentioned speed , and i absolutely guarantee he was looking down and missed his braking point .....
have to say that was a shocking example of track day driving , and bloody glad i have always avoided action days
i don't think he did , the car was settled fairly well but then drifted slightly right ,
she says how fast are we going ...... a second pause and the car starts to drift right , and he then says i am not looking .
Sir_Dave
ClioSport Trader
Id agree with all of that tbh, he was driving like a plonker, so the binning was inevitable.
Re: the Destruction Derby's, i did one in 2004 in the Rallye, never again lol.
Terrible shame for the owner of the Meg though, if its like 99% of RenaultSport, its probably on finance as well :dapprove:
yet i have done many RMA track days where you can pass left or right , and never ever felt that there was an issue and they have an excellent safety record ...... respect ..... even test days , rarely have i seen it bad ....
and if its on finance or you can't aford to bin it , insure it , if you can't afford the excess and to insure it ......... move on .
He wouldn't win a race but his lines certainly implied to me he had been there a fair few times before, agreed on his manners though, wasnt saying he was being polite, merely that he seemed to know what he was doing enough in terms of getting round the track that I didn't expect him to fall off in the dry in an empty corner.
you are probably right he was lookig at his speedo not the track though!
i agree he wasn't a total numpty , but he certainly wasn't good , i still beive he looked down at the clocks on the fastest part of the circuit where a secondary glance will mean you cover considerable ground .
it was in my view an accident waiting to happen from his first outlap overtake .... but hey his car his pride ,and he didn't take anyone out with him .
Golf 7.5R & Clio 200
Yep, im booked in at Trax this year. Fun.
Knuckles
ClioSport Admin
sorry for the daft question but... Loss OF F**** Talent?
Daniel
ClioSport Moderator
Whichever has fuel
LOFT; lack of f**king talent.
Nafoff
ClioSport Club Member
have seen a few videos that seriously put me off action days, so busy
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GLOL i seriously thought you meant that the car had gone light , which it does over avon rise ......... i think i should go and make a coffee LOL
I think the fact he binned it on a dry bend in a modern easy to drive car probably confirms that in most people's eyes mate, lol
You are probably right mate, seems the most likely explanation, thats not a part of the track you want to be distracted at (well not that any is but at least going into the chicanes the speed is nice and low)
Yeah, at least its only his own money he spent.
GLOL i seriously thought you meant that the car had gone light , which it does over avon rise ......... i think i should go and make a coffee LOL
Wasnt just you, I thought the same having felt what my car does there, lol
Driving with absolutely no disregard to other drivers on the circuit. No sympathy here in afraid.
my worst moment giving instruction ever and the only time i have asked someone to go back to the pits was a cerbera at coombe ...... and yes i COULD see what speed we were doing !!
Advikaz
ClioSport Club Member
Must be something about TVR owners I had a brown moment with a billy at Brands in a Cerbera.
On the action days people generally do drive a bit harder than other days. Even I got told off by tony for overtaking too close to the chicane in the vid from saturday i put up, Its just one of those days where cause the track is so busy if you are 100 percent well behaved it can lead to you failing to make enough progress to really have fun.
nothing to say it wasn't the same guy LOL , his talent was nowhere near keeping up with a bloody fast car and from the passenger seat there is bugger all you can do , once you have been quite insistant about something twice and its been ignored then i am outta there at those sort of speeds.
Suzuki Swift Sport
Yeah I have heard these days are not for the faint hearted, think ill be avoiding them! Crashes are very common on these days arent they?
Ive been going to these days for best part of 20 years now, I dont think I have ever been to one where less than about fifth or so of the sessions have had a crash TBH and normally it more like half or a third.
I did 6 sessions on saturday, and 2 of them were red flagged because of crashes for example.
Advikaz
ClioSport Club Member
Possibly it was blue & he couldn't drive for toffee. I had another bloke the same day in a GT3 take me through the gravel at paddock (usualy story) didn't have a clue about vehicle dynamics or slow in fast out.
Nah this was white ........
paddock gravel ....... many times LOL (not driving i might add)
Couldn't agree more. You cannot legislate for someone losing it into the side of you and your 15k car is now worth shirt buttons. Defies logic imo.
Clio 172 Cup Mondial
drive it of the track and crash it into bush? then the insurance company will pay out
Yeah, im sure the videos and pictures all over the internet clearly showing his plate wont hinder that at all.
No great loss, no xenons to be replaced..
LOL.
Hondata'd EP3 Type R
I love how people presume that this is his daily, for all we know he could be a multi millionairre, this is just a toy for him, and he will go and buy another tomorrow....
And as per usual, everyone on Cliosport is better than him......
And as per usual, everyone on Cliosport is better than him......
Very common accident at Quarry. I've spent enough years being one of the few photographers stupid enough to stand at Avon Rise (pre catch fencing) to have caught some fairly bonkers things in terms of what is happening to cars as they lift and compress there before reaching Quarry, 1, 2 or even 3 wheels off the ground etc etc. The drivers are usually quite surprised when they see the photo evidence!
I pointed that out ages ago mate, some people just have a LOT of money so 20K on a tracktoy is nothing to them, might not even be a weeks wages for all we know.
