Racing at an incredible rate of speed, a beautiful Ferrari F430 crash occurred! Even wrecks occur to the best of drivers, and by watching this film I can tell that this is not a novice behind the wheel. Extreme speed, precision, and control are shown throughout the clip all the way up until the point of impact. What exactly caused the accident? The driver took the corner too quickly while riding the inside bumper, removing traction from the vehicle and thus inducing an unforgiving slide. A quick correction wasn't even enough to save this Ferrari as the inertia had already transferred and altered the vehicles direction. Once the weight transfer occurs, there's not much that can be done except holding on for the ride of your life.
Thanks to some great photography by ArteInVideo.com, we get to see the crash footage from multiple angles. The hit looks like it was pretty hard, enough to almost knock the driver out. After the initial impact, he pretty much goes limp which tells me he's out for the count. Watching the video you can see he absorbed the majority of the impact energy, so it's not surprising that he blacked out momentarily. The aftermath footage shows a pretty scraped up side, busted bumper, broken mirror, torn fender, and some possible steering and suspension damage due to the massive impact. I must say though, from the looks of the impact I'm pretty impressed at the Ferrari's resilience to damage. This F430 is by no means totaled, and can be repaired for an estimated $30,000 to $40,000 according to my inside source of this wreck. What's most important is that the driver and passenger are okay, and live to race another day!
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I did not think he was very good at all. His braking points were very premature and he stupidly used the curbs which ended up being his undoing along with too much power applied too early.
Street cars are not designed to hit the curbs at speed and with his premature braking, it did nothing for his lap times. Even race cars are not always set up for continuous curb hopping.
if u want see the best lap, look this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pddGof0R-U
the problem of 'accident was caused by the Selector on racing that has taken control of stability, would be only one test ...
The mistake was the control traction control in RACE mode. I was driving quite slowly in that lap because it was the cooldown lap before going back to the pits. I am not a professional driver, just a guy who enjoys driving his 430 on a racetrack when possible. A lap time of 2'09" in Monza is not that bad if you consider the cold weather. I know I made a mistake, but it can happen on a racetrack.
Driver-- it appears you were unconscious for a little bit.. did you black out from impact or just get a little dizzy for a second? Haha.. I've been there before, you know it's going to hurt the next day :P
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