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You can't post that and then bugger off... share the knowledge
He is implying lovedaddy.
I don't think its anger issues, I think its his computer screen and the sitting behind it that makes him think he is a big man, when its pretty clear he is no big man.
How is voicing an opinion that people who recklessly endanger their own, and other peoples lives, with stupidity behind the wheel of a ton of moving metal, should get no sympathy if they crash and die be seen as being a big man?
Whatever it is, it's pathetic. It's sad that the driver's potential speeding (no one knows what's happened) has caused loss if life and injury. You can't say good riddance as I doubt a mother and father deserved to lose their son and so on. I doubt lovedaddy would have such big e-balls if it happened to someone he knew or a member of his family.
No hes saying it dosent make you look big. In fact wishing that on people does make you look a bit of a **** to be honest.
I learned a long time ago to simply ignore people as bigoted & ignorant as lovedaddy, or at the very least laugh at what they say.
I love the idea that it is somehow the passengers' fault for being in the car. Would you have recommended that they bailed out at god knows what speed the car was travelling at before the accident?
This accident doesn't even seem to have been caused by the driver simply running out of talent, but rather due to circumstances beyond his control (Brake failure or the Nail story).
Furthermore, I don't think that many people here can say hand on heart that they themselves have not done something incredibility stupid behind the wheel, especially when you are behind the wheel of a powerful car with your mates in the passenger seats of a very long, straight and quiet stretch of road...
I love the idea that it is somehow the passengers' fault for being in the car. Would you have recommended that they bailed out at god knows what speed the car was travelling at before the accident?
This accident doesn't even seem to have been caused by the driver simply running out of talent, but rather due to circumstances beyond his control (Brake failure or the Nail story).
Furthermore, I don't think that many people here can say hand on heart that they themselves have not done something incredibility stupid behind the wheel, especially when you are behind the wheel of a powerful car with your mates in the passenger seats of a very long, straight and quiet stretch of road...
I can't - I still do speeds that lovedaddy would consider deserving of death, daily.
pretty much the same here, Mike. the passionford thread, and others like it, do drill home exactly how dire things can pan out. that thread has for some reason struck a chord in my though, but then i dont do things like that in residential places blah blah blah
Well, I have plenty of fun, open, dead b-roads to play on, without a person in sight for miles
And this is another point. Assuming the guy is from the London area, there are literally no roads where a car enthusiast car properly enjoy his or her car.
I live in the deep down of London and I'm still a good 10/15 miles drive away from some even remotely decent B Roads, and even then they are just NOT suited to a car that is even remotely powerful.
Some may say take it to the track, but you can't exactly "race" on a Trackday, can you? Especially if straight speed is your thing and you're stuck at Brands Hatch where you're barely cracking 100MPH before you have to slow down for Paddock Hill Bend (unless you have testicles the size of watermelons). If you want to recreate the thrill of the Traffic light Grand Prix safely, you have to go to Santa pod, which is about a million miles away, etc
I'm not condoning this behaviour, I'm just saying that it is tough for us
LOL, Not long ago I read a dispute between someone who races Locusts and an idiot who thinks he knows everything insisting that Paddock can be taken flat out in a 750mc Locust.
Missed this thread, no sympathy for people that race on the streets and die, roads are not for racing.
Also do people really think a screw caused the crash, who says it would have made him crash, people get screws and nails in the tyres all the time and dont crash and die ZOMG
What about his passenger, the NHS bill, the fire brigade, someone telling his family he has died, BUT ITS OK ITS A DEAD ROAD THAT NOBODY USES
Time and a place for driving like and idiot, they spend so much on their cars yet skimp by not going to track day
Also do people really think a screw caused the crash, who says it would have made him crash, people get screws and nails in the tyres all the time and dont crash and die ZOMG
What about his passenger, the NHS bill, the fire brigade, someone telling his family he has died, BUT ITS OK ITS A DEAD ROAD THAT NOBODY USES
Time and a place for driving like and idiot, they spend so much on their cars yet skimp by not going to track day
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to an extent... because the people (passengers) involved knew what they were getting themselves into so it was hardly a suprise.
But it was hardly your typical nail, it was supposed to be what looks like a plasterboard plug, something that would rip a tyre open, not just go straight in.
Why would a track be any better? If anything, its probably worse. I'd say blasting up a straight piece of road is safer than driving on your limits around a track. Yes you can mock the comment by saying yes, it was clearly safe this time, but I can assure you there are many people that die on tracks all around the world, probably more than there is from going fast in a straight line on straight, empty roads.
Why would a track be any better? If anything, its probably worse. I'd say blasting up a straight piece of road is safer than driving on your limits around a track. Yes you can mock the comment by saying yes, it was clearly safe this time, but I can assure you there are many people that die on tracks all around the world, probably more than there is from going fast in a straight line on straight, empty roads.
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