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It took quite a while for the link to show the video. Here is a link directly to the youtube video.

IDIOT!

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How can a person be smart enough to make the kind of money needed to buy a car like the Lambo and yet be so stupid that they crash it like that? Weird!

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Don't be too sure about that... Most NFL players could buy at least one or two of them and barely notch over 100 or standardized I.Q. tests.

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Give it a shot and see where you come out!! I missed 1.

Cheers!

KS

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Easy, all they have to do is smoke/snort/shoot up some of the "products" they sold to make the money...

Sad, and probably true...

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I doubt he ever floored it. The distribution is 42f/58r, so that doesn't help, plus you can hear the front tires sliding. Everybody screws up eventually. I do not believe it would be very difficult to lose it, but then I've never driven a lambo. Have you guys?

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I haven't had my hands on the Baby Lambos, but have enough time with 911s, Panetras and VW's (aircooled) to have a good idea what happened.

He tried to drive through it with a rear engined platform. Look at the front wheels. The crime was staying on the gas. With all the tires slipping, there was no bite and with enough room it would have come around and swung the other direction. Had he gotten off the gas, the front would have dropped, all 4 tires would have bit and although ugly it would have probably stopped short of hitting the closest car.

Porsche's are famous for this effect. IIRC 26 degrees is the magic number and he was way past it!

There are vids like this all over YouTube with guys trying to drive through impossible situations. There is nothing unmanly about letting off the gas. It just always seems to be the last thing guys with mega HP cars seem to think about! One of my favs is the Corvette trying to show off, gets loose and crosses the path of and gets T-Boned by the Lambo he was trying to show off to! Classic Idioto!

I wonder what he told the insurance company before the video was seen?? A pelican crossed my path... the throttle stuck... ???

This is all conjecture and my not at all be what happened, but I've had many similar looking close calls (as recently as last month at VIR in a FWD car) and the only thing that saved me was lifting my "stupid" foot and letting the car regain control!

Funny thing is that someone the other day on here was saying something about guys with cameras getting in all sorts of trouble. Not always!!

Cheers!

KS

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Common sense and reality seldom intersect. If it makes you feel any better, I've had the distinct pleasure of training a few millionaires for entry level positions after their portfolio tanked. I'm fairly certain my fish had more common sense than 2 of the 3.

Truth be told, that car was wrecked before the driver even bought it.

Same logic along the lines of buying 100 high school age males Camaros. You'll have 50 cars left on the road in the first night / week, 30 at week 2, etc... If you're lucky, there might still be 5-6 on the road after a year. (At least 5 will be due to revoked licenses.)

If the stars align, you might find 1 owner that had enough common sense to respect the car. Your odds may vary.

Doesn't really matter what they were driving, something would have gone wrong. They disabled the idiot-protection, and tried the all time beloved "Watch this" at 50+mph around an occupied corner from a dead stop. Inertia be damned.

We used to sit out at a local street racing spot at the end of a slight bend leaving a popular light. A couple smart honda owning locals would hustle the high power rwd guys out of their paychecks on the regular. Always funny watching a guy in a 500+rwhp live axle car try and drag race around an off camber bend. (They were forward thinking enough to stop opposing traffic...)