Sunday Rally Discussion - (Petters Crash, Loebs win, etc)
08-22-2004, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Kwilson21
yeah... he's way lucky. That thing he hit....hackenstine??... barely even budged.... car was completly destroyed....
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08-23-2004, 02:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Kwilson21
Did you see the Evo hit the tree.... like a 30g smack..... his brother called emergency...
08-23-2004, 11:52 AM
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The rally was very nasty. Wet pavement is (imho) the *worst* surface to try and race on. Even top level pros were cought out by this, as was evidenced by Panizzi's horrible crash (t-boned into a tree, could have been really bad (think Lovell)) and Petter's complete desctruction of the Impreza. That's as bad as I have *ever* seen a rally car get mangled. It's sheer luck that Mills is ok after that.
08-23-2004, 12:27 PM
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Panizzi was really lucky he had that couple of hundred meters sideways through the field before hitting the tree or I think Neil's right, it would have been a repeat of the Lovell crash.
And Phil is one lucky co-driver as well, I've seen people killed in cars that had a lot less damage, and it takes one hell of a force to move the upper corner of that roll cage that much, they had to have come down right on top of one of those barricade things, probably a couple of times at that- from the look of the in-car.
And Phil is one lucky co-driver as well, I've seen people killed in cars that had a lot less damage, and it takes one hell of a force to move the upper corner of that roll cage that much, they had to have come down right on top of one of those barricade things, probably a couple of times at that- from the look of the in-car.