Lamborghini crash at the Texas mile
 

The Twin-Turbo Lamborghini Crash As It Happened

OUCH!

Glad he was walked away from that.

The car is definitely toast but the crash doesn't look too bad. The rollovers like that are usually easiest on the drivers as you're not transferring all of the crash energy in one or two solid hits.

Yeah, glad to see he was ok. If you look at the other videos it sure looks like this guy had more money than driving skills.

I'd be crying for a month if I crashed my Z. I don't even want to imagine how this guy feels.

That car was just totally unstable. Here are his attempts from earlier this year. Gets unstable under acceleration and braking.

i saw that car at C&C in charlotte a few months ago...

Well I bet it's as stable as a rock now....... Too soon?

wow, do those cars have VDC?

That's what happens when people who think tossing money in a car will make it safe/easy to go 200mph+

agree^^ the car was made to go up to around 200mph from the factory, putting a ton of extra power in it might mean that it's theoretically possible to go that fast but just because someone can do a thing, doesn't mean that they should lol

i'm sure it has some kind of traction control system but i don't know if it was still functional after the TT conversion (i would assume so unless they were no longer using the stock ECU). even if it had a TCS of some kind, i can't imagine that it would be able to counter the fact that the parachute ended up getting tangled underneath the car and correct for the rapid changes of direction at 230+ mph or whatever it was.

That suspension is either setup all kinds of wrong or the guy simply cannot drive.

I believe it is the bold part.

Traction control would have been disabled for maximum acceleration, I'm presuming they kept it AWD.

The comments from a bystander indicate that the parachute never got tangled, and that the car was fine until the driver got on the brakes 1/4 mile after parachute deployment.

ok i either misread that on another forum (NAGTROC) or was misinformed... sorry about that

That's what the driver said happened, but the spectator saw differently.

gotcha

new video

Yeah that wreck wasn't really too bad (for the driver).

I wonder if he should have waited to slow down abit more before deploying the chute. I wonder if it was even necessary.

I don't know. I sure as hell wouldn't want to have been in there. That thing was almost 30 feet in the air at one point.

Sure seems like he lost it right as the chute deployed.

Haha, I wouldn't want to be in the car either, but that sure beats the hell out of a solid hit into a barrier.

Very true. All that would be left is a pile of carbon dust. :icon17:

poor car.

Videos like this/of the driver walking away inspire thoughts that speed-limits should be raised. They were all set when cars were a LOT less safe. Imagine doing this in a 60's 'vette or a Pantera. DRT.

I think highway/interstate speed-limits should be raised to 80-85.

Not sure about the fault driver/conditions/chute…….but the chute being deployed seems like it would lighten the front end a bit and mess with steering control/inputs? Just a thought.



A guy at Pacific Raceways was running a twin turbo lambo that put 900HP down to the wheels. He said the car scared the crap out of him. He had to seriously modify the suspension to maximize it's cornering capability. But the driver is amazing and has not came close to crashing. To hear this car go down the straight is to experience something …..well you have to be there.

I wonder how many Z's it'll take to fix.