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My Crash, caught on tape!

Old Jul 3, 2003 | 04:38 PM
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That's a real doozy. At least your OK.
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Old Jul 4, 2003 | 01:53 PM
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Thanks for your concern.

I've gotten a few e-mails asking me what I thought happened. Well it's hard to tell just watching the last half of a lap. but I was pushing my car real hard to move up to first place and I believe that I got my tires too hot and greasy and picked up some of that debris/dirt you see behind my car on the begining of the vid. That caused me to get side ways in the first part of the vid. Then when I went thru the turn I crashed in, I was going slower than I normally do because I was thinking that my tires were greasy and losing traction. By going slower and not throttling it thru the turn, I didn't have enough weight transferred to the backend witch made it get light . This happened on the straight away, I started going sideways to the right first , you can see in the vid that I had a little oversteer as I was coming off the straight. Then I got back into the throttle to try shift the weight to the back and regain traction. When the car caught traction the backend whipped around the other way and I went sliding sideways off of the track. If I had about 15 more feet of track I might have been able to catch it before going into the grass. After I hit the tire wall sideways I went up on the top of the tires and was at a 45 degree angle while still going forward. Then the front end bit into the ground and the backend came over. Belive it or not it actually happened very slow for me, I remember everything about it.
Does anybody know where I can find a Series 5 front bumper and s5 side view mirrors?
Also, Do the S5 and S4 doors and fenders look the same. and bolt up the same
If you saw the vid you know why I'm asking.

Thanks Brett.
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