Yesterday We Showed You Some Of America's Greatest Autocrossers. That Was Yesterday…
Why should the superstars of cone-chasing hog all of the B&B’s attention? Today we will see some of the worst autocrossers to ever exit a course backwards, hit a tree, or strike a corner worker. The fun begins with the above video, which proves that some people just can’t operate a Mustang, but’s it’s far from the worst incident on our parking-lot hit parade…
After meandering through an autocross course featuring dozens of conveniently-placed trees, the driver of this Mustang finally does the obvious thing and broadsides one of ’em.
This guy doesn’t even make it to the first cone.
For the first minute of this video, I couldn’t figure out what this guy was gonna hit. Oh yeah… the fence wayyy over there.
Taking girls on a ride in your S2000 can be fun, right up to the point that you hit a curb and kill the car. The action at 2:05 is highly recommended.
Darned curbs, they are all over. This Miata looks like a surprised frog when it leaves the ground.
That’s all for today, folks, but remember… Autocross is as safe as YOU make it!
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Note to TTAC: Whatever POS you're using w/ vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes, etc. is *&^%ing your embed codes with doubled URLs like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTW8I_fqlmc when they should have one of the roots removed and be like: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTW8I_fqlmc -Regards, W
The other videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPRMiIjfY88 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxLgxUB2HIo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9adh-Y8KiGw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTW8I_fqlmc
I was present for the Mustang-tree incident. My avatar photo is of me, on-course, in that same lot. The owner was letting a friend run the car; said friend had no previous RWD experience and obviously handled the situation in the worst possible way. Stuff happens. Come to think of it, the only other collision I've witnessed in ~10 years of autocrossing was also at a (different) non-SCCA event, one with a lot of heritage but with real street curbs within ten feet of the course on either side. The SCCA overall has a pretty good thing going, but as with anything, YMMV.
Sorry about the embedding/encoding on this one, guys!