| Holy crap!!! Hydroplaning Honda Batman! - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| 2003specv |
Scary stuff. Looks like he's hurt at the end too. Helmet smashes out the side glass, and when the car stops his hands aren't on the wheel and you can't see his helmet in the mirror anymore. No movement either. Crazy how something like that can happen so fast.:blink:
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| Kris |
| Wonder what the guy was saying. |
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| SketchifisT |
| fuck that sucks, racin in rain is always a bizzle. I saw that happen to a guy on the freeway right in front of me over corrected :( . Well obviously he is concussed and out for the count , dont think he would be dead but hard to tell what speed he hit it at. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
| if you wathc the speedo... now I can't see the numbers but the needle is way up.. if it was a second gen neon based off where the needle was it woulda been about 140-160km/h when he started to spin, it was definatly into triple digits and who knows if it's km/h or mph |
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| mike3 |
| whats the difference if it was in miles or km? if it goes up to 200 in KM its not going that high in miles...they switch it over and both speedos max out the same |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
| I dunno honda's but I'd think that triple digit in MPH is much fast than triple digit km/h |
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| BlueTurboEGG |
What idiot would do a triple speed in a right sweeping turn in the rain?!...
Live and learn, die and be ignorant I suppose :dunno: |
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| 2003specv |
He's already going pretty much straight when the rear steps out. I think he just hit some standing water on the track.
That big SMASH sound always sends chills down my spine. |
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| scooby_dooby |
| damn that's brutal, looks like he hit like 160km/h or so, the speedo's go up to 220km/h or 140mph, he was like 3/4's of the way |
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| energie |
| yikes, that sound as he hit the wall brings back memories of my accident. |
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| 2003specv |
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Originally posted by scooby_dooby
damn that's brutal, looks like he hit like 160km/h or so, the speedo's go up to 220km/h or 140mph, he was like 3/4's of the way
He slowed down quite a bit when he spun out. Looks to me like the wall impact was around 100km/h. Still a crappy was to end you lapping day. |
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| BlueTurboEGG |
After the underpass there is a slight bend, I'm betting that's where the standing water was as he turns the wheel slightly, even the car in front of him can be seen turning right at the underpass.
But man, that is a serious hydroplane.
Soneone I know said that in a FWD if you fishtail, stay on the gas while countersteering to straighten it out?.
I was at a skid control clinic at the EDMA a few years back an there was no application of gas on this at all on a vinyl sheet.
Maybe it was a different set of physics all together. |
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| 2HIGH~PSI |
yeah it made me quiver when he hit that wall :eek: but he must've been driving a rwd car because i've never had that happen when driving fwd, the back end may kick out a bit, and very little, and then correct itself,
blueturbo: with a fwd you can use the acceleration to bring the front around, the back kicks out, and therefore is moving faster than the front, by matting the accelerator, and countersteering it, you can cause the front to move faster than the rear, and therefore straightening out the car..
in a rwd car, i have absoultely no idea, unless just keep a slow constant pedal down, which is what i do if i ever get in trouble in rwd, but it doenst always work.. which is why i think the car is rwd, or he didnt do anything when it spun out cept turn the wheel:blink: |
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| scooby_dooby |
if your back end spins pout like that, the only thing you CAN do is gun it and hope to pull yourself forward and back out of the skid,
the second you let of the throttle, or brake at all, the car will completely spin out. The only way to make it is to accellerate, pull yourself forward and back into the turn.
watch the video, the second he lets OFF the gas, that's when he loses control does a 180 and starts sliding backwards. He should gunned it as soon as he started sliding out, and hope he gets some traction.
i could see it being a FWD drive car, at those speeds cornering that tight, some standing water would act just like ice, what happened was he felt it letting go, got freaked out and either braked or let off the gas, the second he did this he lost it. |
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| 2003specv |
It's an EG Civic. Certainly not RWD.
FWD can get very sideways if you drive like a moron. Ask my girlfriend, I almost ate a curb 2 weeks ago as a result of lift throttle oversteer. Full opposite lock at 80km/h, not fun. I can make it happen at will, not this bad though. About 2 seconds before it happened I was bitching about how Blizzaks suck on dry pavement. LOL Lesson learned.
And I'm on stock suspension, not some huge rear sway bar wannabe FWD drift machine. |
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| beatshack |
imho, that spin is just as likely with a FWD car as it is with RWD.. he didn't spin from too much throttle while cornering (like RWD oversteer in a turn exit), he spun from braking way too late (and/or entering the corner way too fast).
atleast he didn't roll :dunno: |
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| 2003specv |
| He wasn't braking for a corner. He was just getting onto a short straight. The corner you see is blocked off. |
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| Markgase2000 |
I hope he wasnt too hurt :eek:
kinda a situation where you know its gonna bang hard so you just bend over and kiss your own ass goodbye not considering there is possability of survival. |
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| h22civic |
| He did a good job on the install on his Apexi unit.....stayed attached to the dash right proper:blink: Remember though...you gotta pay to play.:( |
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| Nightstalker |
| Notice where the wall was before he hit it, and then where it is after he hit it. And the comments you guys were making before are correct. If he had stayed on the gas and pointed the front wheels where he wanted to go he would have had a far better chance of getting the car under control. |
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