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  1. 04-13-2015, 06:42 PM #1
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    Disney World Exotic Car Experience Ends in Tragedy

    This story is just incredibly sad. A 36-year old instructor at the Walt Disney World Driving Experience was killed yesterday when a 24-year old bell-boy out for a birthday lark lost control of a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera at 100 mph and impaled the passenger side of the car on a guard rail. The instructor apparently left behind a wife and toddler daughter.

    http://http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/birthday-turns-tragic-fatal-exotic-racecar-crash-cops-article-1.2183388

    A few years ago a well-known pro-driver told me of riding with a coaching client who had a brain-fart at Sears Point and turned the car head-on into a wall at 90 mph. The pro was lucky to live to tell the tale. You can't just get behind the wheel of a hyper-car with nothing but X-Box driver training. Once you've upset the car's balance with the wrong input, you're at the mercy of Newton's Laws.

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  2. 04-14-2015, 03:22 AM #2
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    Sad indeed.

    It appears they were going the wrong direction on the track. Exits are designed so this doesn't happen.

    It will be interesting to hear whose decision that was and why. If it turns out that it was the instructor's call that's going to be a problem.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank Beck View Post
    It appears they were going the wrong direction on the track.
    Whoever made the decision to lap the wrong way turned a well-designed guardrail into a spear. The kind of slide shown by the skid marks was very foreseeable, and that guardrail was designed to deflect it -- if the car had been traveling clockwise. That little girl lost everything and the Mouse has very deep pockets...

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