Bad Day At The Races
 

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Man I'd be pissed if i owned one of these cars and got involved in this :evil:

Later,

Santos

ooo geez some nice ass cars in that now hunk of metal... :shock:

and i bet you it was that damn Ford driver that started it...

Yup, those are all vintage race cars and 16 of them got messed up real bad. The Cobra is a real 1965 AC Cobra. You're looking at millions of dollars worth of messed up cars. A real 69 Trans Am which is 1 of 697 made, 2 1967 Camaro Z28's out of 602 made. And what's even tougher is that in order to compete in vintage SCCA Trans Am racing you have to have a car that has prior race history so these cars will have to be rebuilt to keep racing. No insurance so it comes out of your pocket. Same thing applies when you go to the drag strip. You have no insurance when you go down the strip so if anything happens, you're out of luck.

i always thought insurance covered 'defensive driving' type stuff....guess not 8)

It does. But that pretty much only applies at an autocross. Vintage road racing isn't exactly defensive driving...

- Justin

That's crazy. Are they on the pit lane? How the hell does that happen? You can get racing insurance through some company. Not sure who it is but I know two people that have it.

lloyd's will insure anything as long as you have the cash.

that wreck turned my stomach, thinking about the money wrapped up in those cars.

Doh :(

it is racing. the higher/faster the level you are competing on the worse the "worst case scenario" gets.
with that many carsinvolved i would think it was prolly the start or a restart that had everyone all bunched up. at that point all it takes is a slip of teh tires or a missed gear at teh front of teh field and the whole world is involved.
it sucks, but i am willing to bet that they will all be back soon. if you have the money to thrash cars like that you prolly have the money to fix them. or sell them to someone who can. :)

later
tim

It was the start of the race and they were just taking the green flag when a car tried to get a jump and tried squeezing between another car and the wall and everybody started checking up and the cars in the back had no idea so it just turned into a pileup. They'll probably back-halve the body's on most of those cars and rebuild them because it's the firewall area and roll cage with the SCCA tags that are needed to compete in vintage racing.