Comedian/Actor Eddie Griffin crashes Enzo (caught on tape!!)
03-29-07, 08:23 AM
#32
Out of Warranty
Griffin, a typical driver with no experience with this level of performance seems to have panicked, pinned the throttle, and smacked the barrier when the Enzo got a little squirrelly under power. It's not entirely his fault - some bozo put him in a vehicle that was CLEARLY beyond his capability and experience. You or I would probably have done the same thing under the circumstances.
Whether it's NHRA, SCCA Club Racing, Autocross, or Saturday night at the local bull ring, amateur racing is a gateway. There are schools for the basics, limited only by the thickness of one's wallet. Amateur racing is all about learning to drive under competition conditions, gaining experience in small increments. You start out in a small production class and move up - maybe at some point moving over to modifieds, then after more training and successful experience you might move into the pro ranks - if you can find a ride. Otherwise, you've had a lot of fun - and if that's not the point of it all, what is?
I don't think anyone off the street with no real racing experience could begin to handle an Enzo. That car is an F1 with fenders - mere mortals may not apply. There are several other examples of high-performance vehicles that only the highly trained, qualified, and experienced should be allowed to drive - for their own safety. Perhaps that's what makes them good investments - after 15 or 20 years there will be few examples left of these limited-production vehicles. Their owners (or their friends) will have destroyed them, making the remainder rare birds indeed.
Whether it's NHRA, SCCA Club Racing, Autocross, or Saturday night at the local bull ring, amateur racing is a gateway. There are schools for the basics, limited only by the thickness of one's wallet. Amateur racing is all about learning to drive under competition conditions, gaining experience in small increments. You start out in a small production class and move up - maybe at some point moving over to modifieds, then after more training and successful experience you might move into the pro ranks - if you can find a ride. Otherwise, you've had a lot of fun - and if that's not the point of it all, what is?
I don't think anyone off the street with no real racing experience could begin to handle an Enzo. That car is an F1 with fenders - mere mortals may not apply. There are several other examples of high-performance vehicles that only the highly trained, qualified, and experienced should be allowed to drive - for their own safety. Perhaps that's what makes them good investments - after 15 or 20 years there will be few examples left of these limited-production vehicles. Their owners (or their friends) will have destroyed them, making the remainder rare birds indeed.
03-29-07, 11:25 AM
#35
Lexus Fanatic
03-29-07, 01:01 PM
#37
Pole Position
What a tool! Anyone that attended one of the Lexus high performance schools could see how those that thought they "knew" how to drive overdrove the cars first time out. You should have been able to see this coming. Never let off the gas, like my kids playing GT4 HD on the PS3.
What's with the other tool behind the barriers watching the crash and not even flinching?!? He's lucky nothing came flying off towards him.
What's with the other tool behind the barriers watching the crash and not even flinching?!? He's lucky nothing came flying off towards him.
03-29-07, 10:12 PM
#42
Lead Lap
the cars wheels looked like they were turned and the car just plowed ahead into the wall... which looks like another ferrari wreck i saw with a F50.... wheels turned.. car still going in the original direction....
.... they don't appear to be great handling cars.....
.... they don't appear to be great handling cars.....
03-29-07, 11:32 PM
#43
With all this publicity floating through the net...it seems fishy IMO. What better way to promote the film then trash a few $$ cars to get the name recognition. Obvious brainless to let a unskilled driver behind the wheel of an Enzo and to put a barrier wall so close to a turn. I would think a competent road course designer would have told them that crash wall was too close.
It stinks.
It stinks.
03-30-07, 01:10 PM
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take any 'great handling' cars... even one created by God himself... go super hot into the corner.... then brake as hard as one can because of the concrete wall ahead... then turn the wheel in the direction one wants to go... and guess where car is going to go?... straight into the concrete wall.. It does not matter which great handling car you have, you can't defy the law of physics. I would blame it on the driver and not the car.