Porsche test driver dies on Autobahn

rypt said:
Err, his car made it UNDERNEATH the reservation, which is pretty damn hard to do to the UK ones, here you tend to go through or over, not under really.
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Erm what, they do look very similar to our design and i've said he went under it, apart from being a **** and having bad taste whats your problem?

If you happen to drive a truck then you might go over it, the whole point of a central res it to stop the vehical going over and into the other lanes of traffic.

This is your normal single sided style barrier with concrete reinforced posts in the floor raising the rail up :

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The designs have now being changed to include multiple levels of square crash bar but they still stick up on posts, with the 998 being so low thats how he's gone under it BY FOLDING THE SIDE BIT IN!

If you look at the last image in that link :

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You can see its a double skinned barrier with space to absorb the impact inbetween with a similar but new style flat faced crash rail + the supporting raised up posts for the whole structure.
 
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Thats a bad rail design - poor bloke.

In Belgium (use to live there) on some roads they have solid concrete walls - very safe but probably too expensive.
 
Bad perspective, but if you look at the fireman to the left, the barrier does look low and appears to be below waist height.
 
Mat said:
One wonders why this test wasn't done on a track of some sort rather than a road...?
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It's to test how it copes in a nomal days use. They will have track tests too, but as they said, they want to see what the car is like in normal traffic and such. Something that is almost impossible to replicated on a race track.
 
shauncr91 said:
It's to test how it copes in a nomal days use. They will have track tests too, but as they said, they want to see what the car is like in normal traffic and such. Something that is almost impossible to replicated on a race track.
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Normal traffic conditions?

They were using the road at the most empty time of day, 3 drivers overnight when there will be almost no traffic. Some very high speeds involved for many hours at a time I imagine!
 
Berger said:
Normal traffic conditions?

They were using the road at the most empty time of day, 3 drivers overnight when there will be almost no traffic. Some very high speeds involved for many hours at a time I imagine!
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Normal traffic conditions for a Porsche driver out for a nighttime blat on the autobahn. ;)
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
I figured the rail would intenionally be designed like that to "catch" the cars, rather than them bouncing back onto the road or flying over to the other lane?
Any chance or was it just a low sportscar wedging under?
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I'm faily shire that the rails are designed to flex easily, bouncing the car off the rail and back onto the road. This was just damn back luck that his car was so low.
 
sdfuk said:
Thats a bad rail design - poor bloke.

In Belgium (use to live there) on some roads they have solid concrete walls - very safe but probably too expensive.
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Used to live there too, always thought the concrete ones looked like they'd be "safer" than the armco style.
 
Law of averages realy, run cars like this long enough and it will go wrong at some point. May take 20 years but it will happen. It will have been conducting high speed runs which at the end of the day need to be done as they are legal where it comes from.
 
Thats shocking tbh.
With the autobahns i thought they would have to have pretty top tech crash barriers with no speed limits....
 
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