Car and Driver Crashes a Nismo 370Z

LaSeeno

So... someone took a 30k car (stock) and slammed on the brakes while doing 130mph+ into a turn?

Sounds like driver error to me.

MightyBobo

Have you ever driven on a track before?

If the stock braking system sucks, it sucks. Whether its the fluid boiling or the stock pads getting way too hot. And I'll reiterate - AGAIN - RCZ himself testified that his stock brakes almost completely went with little to no warning.

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dad

"Some thing in the brake system failed, not the driver! Your only fooling your self blaming the driver"!

JonBoy

You've obviously never been on a track. You don't brake gently and easily heading into the turns. Well, you do if you want to be slow, but if you're going for the fastest time (which is what the Lightning Lap is about), you're going to be driving the car as hard as possible and that means heavy braking.

My S2000 could easily boil the stock brake fluid after multiple laps on a racetrack that was heavy on the brakes. It's not at all uncommon. It is uncommon to have it happen so quickly and catastrophically.

They performed the same type of driving on all the other cars and they didn't break or fail this way. If it was all driver error, why didn't it happen in the other cars?

370Zsteve

The June 2010 issue will have an update of the Nismo track incident.

Apparently they finally admit it was not brake "failure". Seems the pads were worn down to the plates and they boiled the brake fluid. Question remains... were the pads worn when they received the car? If so, this highly publicized incident was very damaging to the brand and Nissan should sue their asses if this was the case

source: C&D May 2010 issue, Page 113

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Modshack

Ummmmm....Nissan generally supplies the press and test cars....No lawsuit there!

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370Zsteve

haha, good point rofl but I'd wager Nissan left track prep to the magazine. If C&D didn't check the condition of the vehicle (esp the brakes), shame on them. After all the negativity published after the incident...if it turns out to be C&D's fault, it really makes them look like amateurs. Bring back Don Sherman!

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MightyBobo

There is no track prep for stock cars - but they SHOULD have checked the brakes for safety's sake, thats for sure...

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kenchan

yah, that's wat posted earlier and someone zapped my post. common sense areas to check on a tracked car are condition of BRAKES AND TIRES... can't believe people forgot that and put a driver in the car.

370Zsteve

Ya Bobo, prep in this case meant simple common sense.

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