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Bino's tales
Well Uncle Bino,
I was pretty sure I was on the money, all you had to confirm where the *** were the correct count. So were you there???? Did you see the car??? And one wonders what the ABS was doing, unless that was one really long Handbrakey!!!!
Maybe something else failed and that was the handbrake jammed on.
I was at QR one day (private day) and CL put a road going Betta Electrical promo car off the end of the back straight, through the gravel trap and up the bank at the end. car was not so good! And all the handbrake did was slow the crash speed a little.
someone must have some pics
Cheers
J
PS B A Lert: old Gricey would never do such a thing
I was pretty sure I was on the money, all you had to confirm where the *** were the correct count. So were you there???? Did you see the car??? And one wonders what the ABS was doing, unless that was one really long Handbrakey!!!!
Maybe something else failed and that was the handbrake jammed on. I was at QR one day (private day) and CL put a road going Betta Electrical promo car off the end of the back straight, through the gravel trap and up the bank at the end. car was not so good! And all the handbrake did was slow the crash speed a little.
someone must have some pics
Cheers
J
PS B A Lert: old Gricey would never do such a thing
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Well if I'd a bin around I would have checked all the Audis driver seats for pucker marks. They would have been impressive since it is clear the driver et al would not have been sure that they weren't going for a bit of a swim until quite late in the exercise, given that once off the runway their Cgrip or -delta 'a' would have been >= 0
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Well I wonder if good old BJ manage to land it on its roof.
He ha done that to a Ozemail and BOC liveried Falcon on a few occassions before.
Surely Bino's has some photo's, someone must......come on fess up!
J
He ha done that to a Ozemail and BOC liveried Falcon on a few occassions before.
Surely Bino's has some photo's, someone must......come on fess up!
J
I just had a look at those skid marks the other day. I'm sure they're not the only set he created either!!
When you see just how close he camed to launching off the rocks into the water....he's one LUCKY person.
Not a handbrake problem as towards the end, it's all 4 wheels locking up.
When you see just how close he camed to launching off the rocks into the water....he's one LUCKY person.
Not a handbrake problem as towards the end, it's all 4 wheels locking up.
I've made enquiries and an acquaintance in the V8 racing world is going to get the details. Also various folk are returning from Hammy this week. I'll post what I find out.
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Re Audi Write-Off
Just spoke to my folks up on Hammo racing and they tell me. Professional driver was racing a helicopter down the rwy for a car commercial and wrote the car off on end of rwy.
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Your friends in "Hammo racing" whatever that is, speak with forked tongue. My information, and I did not see the car myself, is that there was minimal damage to the car, as would be expected from sliding slowly on to one rock leaving a few specks of red paint.
The "official" shooting of the ad the next evening with the helicopter was by all accounts a dud, especially since the replacement car was black.
Edited to add, Thanks for your input in the following post Woomera. I decided it wasn't worthy of a response.
The "official" shooting of the ad the next evening with the helicopter was by all accounts a dud, especially since the replacement car was black.
Edited to add, Thanks for your input in the following post Woomera. I decided it wasn't worthy of a response.
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I think he means they were there for the Hammo race week.
Errrm raceing (sic), is spelt without the "e", yatchs (sic)
and it is not necessary to call Bino's an "idiot". Please thimk carfully before you post. Woomera.
Errrm raceing (sic), is spelt without the "e", yatchs (sic)
and it is not necessary to call Bino's an "idiot". Please thimk carfully before you post. Woomera.
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Just heard from a mate who was on the Island at the time. The big brake lockup was (according to him) due to the grooved runway surface. Seems like the ABS system couldn't cop it and started "bunny hopping" on the grooves and flat spotted the tyres until they burst.
He said it looked pretty spectacular with smoke, sparks, noise and other good stuff like that
He said it looked pretty spectacular with smoke, sparks, noise and other good stuff like that
