http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2otNG7VHLvk

From the 2009 LeMons South race this weekend.

This is why it was totalled:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcfqH4W2DpY

 

oh now thats just bullshit....the owner of that 7 should be stripped of all of his RX-7 ownership privelages!

 

agreed

 

So what the hell happened? How'd he lose the rear wheel?

 

I bet he was using "wiggle bolts."

 

They were zip tied on.

 

Please tell me you're kidding...

 

he put them on backwards

 

true that.

that would of been easy to fix and get back racing the next week end.

 

^That's not the point of LeMons, all of the cars get destroyed.

 

What???

 

LeMons is an endurance race using junker cars, they get crushed in the end no matter what really... : /

 

That isn't true. The only car that gets crushed is the "Peoples Curse" winner (or loser if you prefer).

The other cars all live to see other LeMons races if the owners so choose. I've even seen a few of them show up in IT classes oddly enough.

 

a friend of mine was there. he has a subaru svx and he has raced it 3 times at least. they don't crush them at the end.

 

the point is that no self respecting RX-7 owner would let that happen to an RX-7.

 

Oh cool! I always thought that all the cars get squished...

 

true that

 

i just can't stand when people destroy a perfectly good 7...

 

That car was looked like it got trashed in the rollover No real big loss in crushing it, save for the rollcage, which is kind of a one time use thing anyways, and seeing how he got that one time use out of it, and/or it was welded into the car he couldn't really do anything with it anyways. If you look, he took the engine and drivetrain out of the car and just let them crush the pre-smashed shell. Not that big of a deal... Still bothers me, but I understand why it was done and am okay with it.

 

What about people that race them in IT or Spec7 and put them into the wall? He didn't expect to flip it, and I'm sure he had to change his underoos afterwards. While I too hate those that purposely destroy a good RX-7 (or any other iconic or fun sportscar) He was racing it, as many do, and there are risks in racing such as flipping or hitting a wall or slamming into another car. It happens. He's also not the first one to enter a first gen in the LeMons.

 

or just a cool car like an mr2 and that kid was pissing me off!

 

Quick go grab that racing beat exhaust lol!

 

I would use an RX7 only if it came from the north with terminal cancer.