• Peter Normington

    Member
    April 16, 2010 at 9:23 am

    Wow! I wonder what sebastian though when that happened!

    Peter

  • Neil Speirs

    Member
    April 16, 2010 at 10:07 am
    quote Peter Normington:

    Wow! I wonder what sebastian though when that happened!

    Peter

    Thank god I’m still alive 😮

  • Gavin Conway

    Member
    April 16, 2010 at 4:30 pm

    Eeeeeeeeeeeeeks!!! rather different

  • Roger Clements

    Member
    April 16, 2010 at 4:36 pm

    The funniest thing is he carried on steering after the wheels broke off …. :rofl:

  • Gavin Conway

    Member
    April 16, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    it’s just an automatic reaction…. even one of us would do it… he also probably thought he still had at least 1 wheel left!!

  • Gavin Conway

    Member
    April 16, 2010 at 4:42 pm

    I just remembered I had a steering wheel break off when racing Karts in my youth and i remember clearly trying to turn it out of the gravel with the loose steering in my hands!!

  • Roger Clements

    Member
    April 16, 2010 at 4:45 pm
    quote Gavin Conway:

    it’s just an automatic reaction…. even one of us would do it… he also probably thought he still had at least 1 wheel left!!

    True…but it’s still funny.

  • Mike Grant

    Member
    April 16, 2010 at 5:56 pm

    WOW That was one catastrophic failure. I thought the wheels had to be tethered to the car to stop runaway rubber.

  • Gavin Conway

    Member
    April 17, 2010 at 9:11 am

    The tether posts are on the main frame which broke off… so no tethers left to do the job…

    I always knew "red Bull Gives You Wings"!!!

  • Graeme Harrold

    Member
    April 17, 2010 at 11:13 am

    That’s what happen when you thin materials to the limits to save on weight. Computer modeling can only go so far, its real world testing where you find out if you got it right or wrong. Fortunate it happened with no cars close by…..

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