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I'm sure you believe yourself to be pretty smart by posting those videos as examples of oversteer, and you then go on to say how they're designed to handle the impact as are the barricades they hit. However what you fail to mention are the difference in tires - road tires vs track tires - or slicks vs threaded tires. You also fail to mention "marbles". I'm assuming you know what they are in the jargon of racing. They don't exist on roads such as Walker and Rodas were traveling. Do they exist on public thoroughfares? Yes - on the side of highways. This isn't a highway.
boncho
reply to post by Komodo
Carerra GT crashes.
Carerra GT spinning out in a really easy turn.
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GT3/GT4 Crashes 1:23 is interesting
Slight oversteer on GT3/Crash
Losing a tire causes crash
Keep in mind these are track cars and are designed/reinforced for crashes. Also, they mostly hit walls designed for car impact and driver safety.
Paul walker's car burning after crash.
Not the first time the car they were driving had an accident that claimed lives, in fact Porsche paid out to them:
In 2005, the car was the subject of a lawsuit after it claimed the lives of two men at the California Speedway when it swerved into a concrete wall. According to TMZ.com, the family of the passenger sued practically everyone involved and won $4.5 million, $350,000 of which was paid by Porsche.
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In addition, the pics you posted of the other crashed cars did not show any signs of fire damage.
I know the subject car had fire damage. Jees, what has been discussed here for 8 pages? My point was, none of the videos and pics of the same type of car, only a few of which were total wrecks, did not have any fire damage. A few looked to be in accidents that were at very high speed and probably faster than what the subject car was traveling.
boncho
reply to post by Bilk22
In addition, the pics you posted of the other crashed cars did not show any signs of fire damage.
I don't think you made a specific point about anything but I can at least respond to the above line. I already posted video, the car was on fire, there's video.
www.youtube.com...
If I post pics of crashed cars that have no fire damage, it means there are none with fire damage ever. (Your logic).
pushed it into the tree at the right moment, and lit it on fire. All of the explosive components in this vehicle are in the rear; and the impact was almost entirely in the front-end. Too much doesn't add up.
All in all I find it hard to believe that these guys were out hooning in a broken car.
I find it very hard to believe that a simple mechanical failure would result in something of this magnitude.
I also find it entirely possible that there were motives behind someone creating this incident.
Considering that nobody knows how fast either of these cars were going - I'm running with my assumption that they weren't driving wrecklessly.
CardiffGiant
looks to me like an explosion happened in the cockpot. the back of the car is far worse off then the front. you know, the part that hit stuff is in better shape.
the drivers side door looks like it was blown open.
i just dont see these experienced drivers/gear heads ripping this car up to 90mph so close to this event where there are lots of people and cameras around, especially if the car is not running well and thats the point of the drive.
someone blew this dude up. thats my opinion
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i watched your vid komodo
carbon fiber chassis.
traction control
stability control
says the car is super responsive and dances around the corners.
superb balance and the large ceramic braes allow you to dig into corners faster than you would have thought.
in true super car fashion it is an EASY CAR TO DRIVE INSANELY FAST
but the pro driver loses control a block away from take off and the back of the car gets blown off.melted and the drivers door gets blown open.
the beastie boys are screaming SABATAGE on this one!!!
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Laykilla
CardiffGiant
opethPA
CardiffGiant
as i posted in the other thread about his death, the damage does not seem right.
i wont shouldnt on if or why they were driving a car with issues. dont matter to me but still. maybe they were driving a car with issues. walker is a gear head. maybe he was trying to diagnose it.
About a week before my high school senior prom I fell asleep driving my car (1990ish Chrysler Lebaron), jumped a curb, hit a stop sign which woke me up right as I was about to hit a tree. I was going roughly 25-30 miles an hour.
How much damage would seem right to you for that scenario?
i dont know. 'hitting' a stop sign could mean a lot.
where on the car did it hot for one? i dont think that mattters either way.
as for your list.
a couple of the points have nothing to do with how it is possible the damage could be what it is.
what does price have to do with it? and horsepower?
horsepower dont matter. 45mph is the same in all cars, no matter the horsepower.
all you guys can argue against me and throw up all the links you want. its not gonna change my mind.
its my opinion. ive worked on cars all my life. had body shops attached to the repair shop i was in. seen accidents. seen the results. been in one.
in my opinion the car would not have that kind of damage if it happened how they said. bottom line for me
Stop signs and speed limit signs are made to lay down when they are hit by vehicles and do very minimal damage.
I was in an infinite that took out a speed sign -- 0 damage to the car, $118 fine for the sign.
Stop signs and speed signs are bolted to thin aluminum posts with holes drilled up the entire post, the holes are placed purposefully as part of design, to crease the metal at the hole and lay the sign down to the ground so it doesn't kill drivers.
So, did that speed limit sign do any damage to the car? Nothing but cosmetic damage to the fiberglass.
Now if it hit a powerpole, in order to hit the tree, it would have had to have been a "glancing" collision.
If the pole came down, as according to reports, the car would have been stopped dead straight away and never have made it to the tree.
It's also important to note that where they crashed was a straight away.
It's also important to note that these were professional race drivers and mechanics that were taking the car out for a test drive to try to determine why the motor was stalling.
I.E.
You don't go 100+mph testing a stalling engine.
Also... how did they lose control going straight? The objects they hit were just on the side of the road, so there is no evidence of "wildly" loosing control.
The accident is telling you they were going straight and were pushed off the road from the left side.
So either they were going fast and had to avoid a vehicle and veered off, or they were responsibly driving around 50 or so and were pushed off the road by another vehicle, both scenarios, the secondary vehicle fled.
Impossible to prove if there was a second vehicle involved or not, since the only angle on camera is from half a mile down the road and completely obfuscated by the tree line.
There is one other explanation, the car was sabotaged and had it's computer hacked, which would give you wifi access to power steering, breaks, and throttle, as well as "Choking" the motor out.
There are videos on youtube showing that all of this and more are possible when hacking the very car they were in.
Given the circumstances it would be illogical to conclude that they just "lost control" from driving "wrecklessly." It doesn't make it impossible, it just makes it the least likely scenario. This would be extremely unlikely.
As for professional drivers dying because of a sudden failure in the cars performance... How many died when the failure was on a straight away, when they were testing a vehicle they KNEW had ENGINE problems?
I'd venture to say none.
P.S.
That SUV in the traffic cam video from a mile down the road, is highly suspicious.
It comes into the frame from the left, driving in a hurry blows that stop sign, pulls into that parking lot and races towards the wreck.
The SUV was pretty far from the crash, couldn't possibly see it, if he heard and saw the explosion, why would you drive TOWARDS it, not knowing it's a car. It could have just as easily had been a bomb.
Also, what of that car that zooms off in that parking lot towards the wreck?
Who are they? Why were they there? What did they see? and why did they drive towards an explosion that they could only have heard/saw the smoke?
Nobody thought that was weird?edit on 6-12-2013 by Laykilla because: (no reason given)
with no reports of loud engine noises (Which would have indicated high speed thus high impact = high damage) or any other logical explanation.
I, as others here also have experienced losing tires, steering and brakes etc. but did not end up seriously injured or dead.
If, as has been suggested here the steering failed resulting in an inability to recover from a bend thus striking poles & tree's etc. then I see no reason why Roger was unable to recover from it.
Many race/rally drivers experience such failures and do not die from hitting a couple of small trees and a pole
I have seen some serious road traffic collisions involving normal run of mill vehicles that have come off better than this GT which we know if pretty much constructed of Carbon Fibre and high grade aluminium, the material of choice for both performance and SAFETY! Carbon fibre doesn't 'shatter' during an impact, it is designed to disperse any forces if gets which is why F1 teams use it - Google formula one vehicle safety test videos on YT.
About the crashed car images, how come it looks like the driver’s side has been ripped open?
I do not believe this was a result of an accident or any fault of Roger or Paul's. My belief is that some kind of IED was used in the Porsche,
The thing that bothers me most about all of this is that we may never know what actually happened, all we can do in theorise and come to our own conclusions.
there is so much BS surrounding the truth,
AthlonSavage
To all the conspiracy theorists the screen shot below is from Google map that shows the sharp turn on the street PW and RD were killed on. Now take a good look , see al the burn out marks, its quite obvious that the road they were killed on is a local haunt for people who like to put foot to pedal. Please stop the conspiracy nonsense.
I have seen many 'accidents' (or at least the aftermath)- its my job!
I have seen many performance cars - its my hobby!
Believe what you're told - Yer good luck with that (Won't mention the 9/11 report) believe that if you want..
Perhaps you should watch the video of the design of this car, looks pretty solid to me with all that Carbon Fibre.
Zebra501
To people who drift, that is not considered a sharp turn by any means.
AthlonSavage
To all the conspiracy theorists the screen shot below is from Google map that shows the sharp turn on the street PW and RD were killed on. Now take a good look , see al the burn out marks, its quite obvious that the road they were killed on is a local haunt for people who like to put foot to pedal. Please stop the conspiracy nonsense.
Unity_99
I think its a murder, and its kind of ironic that Brian from Family Guy died by car, just a week before this.
I don't think it had anything to do with finding out about the event he went to, more something a little longer termed in the planning by a faction of dark hat ritual killers amongst our PTB criminals, a ritual death by fire to baal, and its not nice.edit on 5-12-2013 by Unity_99 because: (no reason given)