It's hard to say for sure, but it looks like there are pads still on the ends of both tubes in that close-up photo, and they've sheared through the floor.
It's hard to say for sure, but it looks like there are pads still on the ends of both tubes in that close-up photo, and they've sheared through the floor.
I thought I had a theory on how they might have survived, but playing it out in my head doesn't work. I was rearended in my 03 last fall and ended up looking at the headliner as something in the seat back broke (not the first time this has happened to me in a Ford product). I was thinking that if they were using the factory seat, something like that might have ocurred. However if the bar was placed close enough to the seat, it should have stopped the rearward momentum of the passengers, keeping the seat upright. If they were using the stock belts, they may have been able to lean far enough sideways to survive the collapse. I wonder how they were able to escape the vehicle. Were the doors working after the crash? Hope he went out and bought a lottery ticket, but I think he used up quite a bit of his luck allowance that day.
ncjay wrote: I'm also bothered by the fact that this was a magazine car. Aren't those guys supposed to know better?
They are magazine guys, who race. Unlike GRM, who are race guys who make a magazine.
anyone know if it was a driver error or mechanical failure?
pinchvalve wrote:ncjay wrote: I'm also bothered by the fact that this was a magazine car. Aren't those guys supposed to know better?They are magazine guys, who race. Unlike GRM, who are race guys who make a magazine.
Are you implying that all magazine writers might not be the super-geniuses we think they must be?
Well, I think most of the GRM staff's business cards read: "So and so, Grassroots Motorsports, SUPER GENIUS."
I think they say "SUPER DORK."
Dr. Hess wrote: I think they say "SUPER DORK."
This made me LOL.
Very lucky driver and passenger. Not-so-lucky Mustang. But that was a really hard hit. I'm sure hands were planted firmly on the roof, both of them ducked towards the middle of the car, and held on for dear life.
Turn 8 is kind of an odd place to go off the track at Hallett.
The guy standing in front of the car in the picture above is my cousin. 
The driver should kick whoever installed the roll bar in the balls!!!...even if it was himself. 
Am I the only one thinking I could make a really cool variant of an EP/FP type car from that?
Like this but a Mustang.
I wonder if the motor shut down. If not bad things happened to it while it was on its roof
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