Tapout co-founder killed in Ferrari crash

[69bronzeT5]

All I gotta say is OUCH!

http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/pgStory?contentId=9323124

[Mike DC]

 
Am I the only one bothered by the way that thing sheared in two so cleanly?  Those exotics are getting way too fragile for their speed.   


   

[tan top]

was just thinking  that      not the first picture of a exoctic super car have been seen to brake in half in a wreck ...... prehaps all this aluminum & composit & carbon fiber stuff they keep bragging about , is not that strong after all , once something goes wrong

[moparstuart]

 I think at 100 mph plus all street cars will come apart like that .   

[RD]

thats not red tranny fluid on the ground or on that white (curb?) by the dash.

live life in the fastlane.. and a tree jumps in front of you.  I guess the phrase "sometimes, when you go slow.. you go fast" would pertain to this situation.

i feel for his family and friends, but the guy was a moron, no doubt about it.  an example of adults behaving moronically.  see below:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-me-ferrari-crash12-2009mar12,0,3811499.story

a former sheriff, acting this way?:

According to Orange County Superior Court records, Kirby has been cited for at least eight traffic violations since 2001, including a conviction for driving under the influence in which he was sentenced to three years' probation.

In the 2001 drunk driving arrest, Kirby allegedly told the arresting officer that his father was a retired CHP patrolman who always advised him to never submit to a sobriety test. He also told the officer that "he shouldn't be picking on people with money," according to the police report

[Mike DC]

was just thinking  that      not the first picture of a exoctic super car have been seen to brake in half in a wreck ...... prehaps all this aluminum & composit & carbon fiber stuff they keep bragging about , is not that strong after all , once something goes wrong

Exactly.

Strong + lightweight = extremely brittle when it is finally pushed past its limits.


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I don't even think chromemoly rollcages are a very good idea a lot of the time. 

Maybe the stuff is okay for just the smaller bars.  But IMHO the racing sanctioning bodies should never have allowed some of the main tubes in the cabin compartment to stray from plain old heavy D.O.M. steel.  The words "rollcage" and "brittle" do not belong in the same sentence.



Check this out.  It's almost surely a cro-mo tube chassis in that truck:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0x3u7V9dbc

 

[tan top]

was just thinking  that      not the first picture of a exoctic super car have been seen to brake in half in a wreck ...... prehaps all this aluminum & composit & carbon fiber stuff they keep bragging about , is not that strong after all , once something goes wrong

Exactly.

Strong + lightweight = extremely brittle when it is finally pushed past its limits.


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I don't even think chromemoly rollcages are a very good idea a lot of the time. 

Maybe the stuff is okay for just the smaller bars.  But IMHO the racing sanctioning bodies should never have allowed some of the main tubes in the cabin compartment to stray from plain old heavy D.O.M. steel.  The words "rollcage" and "brittle" do not belong in the same sentence.



Check this out.  It's almost surely a cro-mo tube chassis in that truck:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0x3u7V9dbc

 

    yep thats the word i was thinking of Brittle  .... i'm guessing nascar spec cages are not chrome molly

[Mike DC]

           
NASCAR doesn't allow it.  Not on any of the critical major bars around the driver cabin anyway. 




But I wouldn't call NASCAR a great example of proactive safety precautioning either. 

The league has generally waited until someone died to do a lot of obvious things.  The bad habit stretches back decades before Earnhardt ever hit the wall in turn #4.  Padded walls, fuel cells, decent crowd fences, restrictor plates, pit road speed limits, the original rollcages themselves . . .  a new rule almost always follows at least one ugly death or a piece of very bad publicity.  (And in most cases Smokey Yunick had been bitching to the league about how obvious the danger was for many years previously, only to be ignored until the bodies finally began piling up.)



   
   

[Forza]

Well I feel sorry for his family but all I can say is I'm glad that pecker head didn't kill some innocent commuter. He won't be making that mistake again.