Thread: scarey--

Completely the wrong barriers as already mentioned. Those ones are designed for and impact of less than 45 degrees, at or less than 100KPH. The idea is to lift the front wheel of the vehicle that impacts them, so some of the energy is transfered up, so the car doesn't fire back into the traffic like a snooker ball. they then pull the steering hard towards the barrier then the car will stick to the barrier as the car slows. certainly not designed to be hit at that sort of angle - it is just a small jump if you do that. There are other barriers that are readily available that would have prevented that car becoming wet.

By the way, was everyone ok?

Originally Posted by rick130

It was a long, long time ago at Amaroo Park.
Just after cresting Bitupave I hit the picks to enter the Dunlop Loop and the little jigger, she didn't slow down, the throttle was stuck wide open.....
In an open wheeler there isn't much between your tootsies and whatever you collect, and in this case it would've been sandstone......

Been there done that but in sports sedan. Also over the dogleg at Oran Park airborne into the dirt backed concrete wall nose first.

Saw a P76 become a CRX off the end of the long straight backwards there too.

Amaroo, Oran, Catalina RIP.