1988 Giocattolo Group B - Classic adelaide crash

[505197]

Yea looks like it did break, just a gentle bend and it goes straight as an arrow with him steerin left. I'd bet it has heims/sperical rod ends, and I've never liked their looks in terms of strength.

[jacob23233]

Pauls my unle XD

[sheebaridgeback]

I've raced cars, and that was a definate front right suspension failure. Definately not driver error.

[antiwonggalonggalo]

who knows.. but you can see the front end litterally washes out within half a sec, from what looks like massive under steer.. possibly a bit of a torque induced slide? hard to tell.. other possible thing i can come up with is bad rebound or the coils have binded when compressed from the bump on the side of the road, and as a result lost total traction.

good sportsmanship from richards & co, who would stop to check if their fellow competitiors are ok these days?

[giocattolo1988]

Giocattolo011. Ask your uncle who owns #006 and ask him if said gentleman would know what happened to his car...and if he's the type of bloke who would report it accurately?

Paul and Barry built an awesome car, no question, but this is the second failure of the same component of this car, and after 20 years of heavy use, why not?

And, wheyez, happy to move on, thanks.

Ciao

[giocattolo1988]

Car not destroyed!  Half way back to being even more beautiful.....and "he" didn't post it...no idea who did., looks like someone took the feed off the TV show.

I know for a fact that "he" never wanted this video to be shown.

....and easy on teh "wanker" comments, friend!

[wheyez]

Well glad its being rebuilt to exceed its prior glory!

sorry for the harsh words, but the WTF would you know & eddy the expert/dumb comments, thing earnt you my ire!

now that its behind us we can move on!

[wheyez]

huh! steering failure... was his line into that corner by the looks of it, he clipped the inside of that corner lifting the weight to the outside causing understeer & WHAMO!

Just easier to blame the car!

Cool vid though!

[giocattolo1988]

WTF would you know?

I happen to know the driver and the car very well. It was actually a failure of the left rear upright that caused the crash.

Not a cool video at all, car was much cooler when it was straight......and didn't have Eddy (the expert) making dumb comments.

[wheyez]

Get over yourself ya wanker, i was just stating what i observed! Why would he post it on youtube, of course people are going to comment on what they see; dumbarse!

It was a cool vid, yeah it sucks that a beautiful car was destroyed (risk of racing), but glad they got out ok!

I know those roads exceptionally well, since i grew up on them & have travelled them almost every day my whole life! I also hillclimb a datsun 1600, which im preping for the classic too!!!

[giocattolo011]

what upright mate paul halsteads my uncle, aint no way that happened

plz reply when did this happen???????

[wheyez]

Hi mate, yeah i dont know anything about the left rear upright failure mentioned by giocattolo1988!

[giocattolo011]

soz bud but it wasnt the upright and unless u own one , i know more.... trust me, not that im trying to start a pissing match but serioulsy u cant just write nething n expect ppl to swallow