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ChrisBlair · 06-25-2014, 06:46 PM

The best drivers in the world crash. When a master of motorsport, someone who can truly drive at 10/10ths, can crash and even die while engaged in a race, how can anyone point fingers at an experienced racer that happened to rack up a new z/28 and claim he was not a good driver or didn't know what he was doing? The best that ever lived crashed. Clark. Rindt. Senna. Dead. Greats like Stewart crashed very heavily- Jackie Stewart, whose driving style was so smooth the flow of electrons looked ragged by comparison.

Fastcat3 · 06-25-2014, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by stoopid

"I'm okay, I'm at a race track". lol

The dreaded words you never want to have to say so far as the race track part, but at least he was okay and that is the good part. Thanks OnStar......."Good-Bye."

TOYMARO · 06-25-2014, 07:03 PM

he spun in 2nd? exiting the corner, he grabed the next gear and it spun too.

Glad driver is good....and sucks about the car

Ryanbabz71 · 06-25-2014, 07:17 PM

Ryan

Jim968 · 06-25-2014, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by ChrisBlair

The best drivers in the world crash. When a master of motorsport, someone who can truly drive at 10/10ths, can crash and even die while engaged in a race, how can anyone point fingers at an experienced racer that happened to rack up a new z/28 and claim he was not a good driver or didn't know what he was doing? The best that ever lived crashed. Clark. Rindt. Senna. Dead. Greats like Stewart crashed very heavily- Jackie Stewart, whose driving style was so smooth the flow of electrons looked ragged by comparison.

Very well said. There is also a saying that there are two types of race drivers, those who have crashed, and those who will crash. It’s pretty clear that the arm chair critics in this thread have never turned a wheel on a track in competition.

Rcfiddy1 · 06-25-2014, 09:10 PM

Awesome sounding car! Sometimes you got to pay to play. Nature of the beast.

SSmoke · 06-25-2014, 09:58 PM

Doh!!

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MLAZ1990 · 06-25-2014, 10:15 PM

Hopefully the damage won't be that bad!

fastball · 06-25-2014, 10:29 PM

The car can be ordered without air conditioning..... they should have an OnStar delete, like the old days when they had the heater delete and radio delete.

As well as the engineers might have said "gee, we sell a $76k car with OnStar, the Z/28 should have it too", what they SHOULD have said was "this thing is practically a single purpose race car, few people who buy this are going to use it as a daily grocery getter. This car doesn't need OnStar"

joeybsyc · 06-26-2014, 09:00 AM

Agreed.. there are LOTS of things they could have deleted on this car. I laugh when I read about it being a "stripped down" race car because it doesn't have AC.

CWI · 06-26-2014, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Bulldog3071

That suck it could be total loss if the frame is bent and it looks like the entire right side will have to replaced. A great reminder that I will never put my camaro on a track. I have a friend who totaled his Porsche at VIR during a track day and spent almost a year with his insurance company trying to get them to replace the car and in the end they paid for a new car after a lengthy investigation.

Not likely to be totaled. I hit a concrete wall with my driver's side and it was $8000 damage. I hit a lot harder than this guy did and airbags didn't deploy. Needed front bumper, fender, fender liner, door, rocker panel, control arms on front, and both wheels replaced. Now it needs repaint because the shop did such a poor job on paint. I've got more visible chips on the front end in one year than the original paint got in four years.

CWI · 06-26-2014, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by fastball

The car can be ordered without air conditioning..... they should have an OnStar delete, like the old days when they had the heater delete and radio delete.

As well as the engineers might have said "gee, we sell a $76k car with OnStar, the Z/28 should have it too", what they SHOULD have said was "this thing is practically a single purpose race car, few people who buy this are going to use it as a daily grocery getter. This car doesn't need OnStar"

Don't they all come standard without A/C? No need to order without it.

McRat · 06-26-2014, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by CWI

Don't they all come standard without A/C? No need to order without it.

If you want a no AC car, you better order it, but you might be too late.

1) Dealers ordered very few if any no AC cars. Ones you might find on the web are mostly (all?) ordered cars that are awaiting delivery.

2) Some dealers will not even take no-AC orders, just in case they get stuck with the car.

06-25-2014, 06:46 PM	#57
ChrisBlair Buick 455 Fan Drives: 1970 Buick, 2012 1SS LS3 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Boston MA Posts: 5,957	The best drivers in the world crash. When a master of motorsport, someone who can truly drive at 10/10ths, can crash and even die while engaged in a race, how can anyone point fingers at an experienced racer that happened to rack up a new z/28 and claim he was not a good driver or didn't know what he was doing? The best that ever lived crashed. Clark. Rindt. Senna. Dead. Greats like Stewart crashed very heavily- Jackie Stewart, whose driving style was so smooth the flow of electrons looked ragged by comparison. __________________

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06-25-2014, 07:03 PM	#59
TOYMARO Drives: 2011 Camaro SS/RS 2SS Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: here Posts: 591	he spun in 2nd? exiting the corner, he grabed the next gear and it spun too. Glad driver is good....and sucks about the car

06-25-2014, 10:29 PM	#65
fastball Banned Drives: 2017 Camaro 2SS 6MT Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 4,372	The car can be ordered without air conditioning..... they should have an OnStar delete, like the old days when they had the heater delete and radio delete. As well as the engineers might have said "gee, we sell a $76k car with OnStar, the Z/28 should have it too", what they SHOULD have said was "this thing is practically a single purpose race car, few people who buy this are going to use it as a daily grocery getter. This car doesn't need OnStar"

06-26-2014, 09:00 AM	#66
joeybsyc Drives: 2010 Aqua Blue Metallic 2SS Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: PA Posts: 2,010 View My Garage	Agreed.. there are LOTS of things they could have deleted on this car. I laugh when I read about it being a "stripped down" race car because it doesn't have AC. __________________