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Robin
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2nd Jun 13 at 21:07   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Was tweeted earlier by BridgeToGantry.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=5IpKcLUhf28&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D5IpKcLUhf28%26feature%3Dyoutu.be

3 lots of barrier impact, that'll be £20,000 I reckon.
big eck
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Holy fuck. That's was a high speed impact. He was so luck he didn't roll or go right over the barrier. That could have been so much worse.
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Awaits steve's in depth analysis of the impact and the correct lines he should of taken.
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Ooh that's a nasty one!
Ian
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Almost looks unreal on the first bounce, like he shouldn't be going that fast.

Proper flying in to that. Seems from the comment he/they got out OK.
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This is why i don't understand the fascination with the Nurburgring.

Is it £20k's worth better than doing a trackday elsewhere??
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Damn! Lucky to not roll or even catch light. I hope he walked away with cuts and bruises at most.
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Cant you get armco insurance?
VrsTurbo
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quote:
Originally posted by taylorboosh
Cant you get armco insurance?


Nope. Unless your a Germany pretty impossible to get insurance on a tf day
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Didnt gav wipe some out? Did he pay?
Haimsey
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2nd Jun 13 at 21:47   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Graham had a fair bill iirc!

Looks nasty.


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quote:
Originally posted by taylorboosh
Didnt gav wipe some out? Did he pay?


Yea he paid. Saying that though my mate crashed not on the ring and got fined 2k euro

[Edited on 02-06-2013 by VrsTurbo]
Ben G
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i know graham had to pay. it's ridiculous.

if everyone boycotted it, rather than pay over-inflated fee's, they'd maybe not charge so much.
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Puts me off ever going
Steve
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There's something about your normal insurance is legally obliged to payout for the damages, but noone as yet has taken them to court over it because they put scary words in the small print
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Seems to be the centre of shit drivers these days. Its the new maccys car park.
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Jesus wept!
Ben G
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
There's something about your normal insurance is legally obliged to payout for the damages, but noone as yet has taken them to court over it because they put scary words in the small print


what if they say that driving on the nordschliefe (sp) isn't allowed? under the exclusions bit it says that.
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quote:
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There's something about your normal insurance is legally obliged to payout for the damages, but noone as yet has taken them to court over it because they put scary words in the small print



Loads have people have used there normal insurance,
But in most cases I've seen said insurance companies have then successfully sued the customers to get their money back.


People also don't realise you drop your coolant an it causes an accident, and some one dies you'll be going down for manslaughter.

Some one I know dropped his coolant, motorbike crash was in hospital for a while, he had to answer bail in Germany fortnightly.
Luckily he was ok but it was touch and go.
Christopher
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:O Shit that was big!
Tiger
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There will be some big skids in the geezers grundies.
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quote:
Originally posted by Generation
Puts me off ever going
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i got insurance for my trip there, it only covered the cost of my car (which i put down as the purchase price 12month previous as £2000) as mentioned you'll be doing well to get cover on anything else!
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Thought it was sped up at first they were going so fast
Graham88
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Crazy quick. Apparently it was shut for 2 hours, so that's €6000 in closures, roughly €3000 in barriers, oil clean up is well over €1000, so that's 10k straight away, then you have to pay for the posts the barriers bolt too, the ones they pull straight, the staff pulling the barriers, the staff who drop them off, the staff who attend the accident, the cars that attend the accident, and of course admin fee's as if they haven't earnt enough by that point.

Important thing is they are apparently ok, I honestly expected serious injuries from that when I first watched it.

I'm no expert but it's easy to diagnose, lifted on the compression zone.

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