Mickeyrx70

pokerpro

So in other words what you guy's are saying is that won't buff out?

Shakeydeal

73Corvette

well, that sucks... looked like a very pristine car. Had to be very humiliating.

DevilDog II

Judging from some of the comments, thank goodness he's the only Corvette owner who's ever shown off in his car.

95rtturbo

I doubt active handling would have saved him in that scenario since he lost it so fast. Pedal was probably to the floor the entire time, up until the very end.

alienranch

As many times as I've stood at that very spot watching the cars, I've yet to see a crash (obviously missed this weekend). Glad he's okay (outside of his ego).

R1 Rider

He tapped the brakes for just half a second and let off just before impact

JR-01

Do you know? Or are you just assuming his active handling/TC was turned off? Perhaps he put too much faith in it.

neutron82

do a youtube search of "cars and coffee crash dallas" and there are a handful of videos... some people aren't too bright to begin with and when you get them in large groups then naturally stupid things are going to happen

slvr bulit

Too bad, it looked like a beautiful car. It happens so quick.

JohnnyB

The one thing I noticed (and was grateful for) is ... I didn't hear anyone laughing afterward.

I believe the sunglasses were blown off by the airbag.

holley505

Guys totally over corrected the steering... obviously not use to driving his car fast.

c5z06.O

Almost happened to me the first time I drove my z. Ever since then I learned how to control the vette at different speeds/RPMs.

Scary feeling. A couple of inches from a wall.

Anyone know if that was an automatic trans?

Bet he wishes that tow truck that passed by was going to pick him up.

dbgoodwin

This is literally the opposite of what happened here. If he had stayed in the throttle and tried to power out he would have spun the other way.

When a car starts to slide and the driver snaps out of the throttle while counter steering, the car suddenly regains traction and sends the car in the direction the front tires are pointed. The inertia then carries the car to spin it in the direction of the original counter steer, as what happened here.

Staying in the throttle probably would have saved this guy

Forcedvert

That dude was in shock, did you notice how his car just kind of rolled up on the curb by it self after the hit. He must have been devastated, I'm thinking he did not have the car that long...... like someone else said, all he had to do was lift to live another day and get use to how the car responds!

Forcedvert

I was typing my response while you were, I know you are right if he was accomplished at correcting a slide but obviously this guy was not. He just waited too long to lift, he would have been fine if he had more hp also then he could break the tires loose without the corner to help! Probably a a4 stock and can't spin in a straight line!

Black 02

Sucks. Some guy in Houston jumped the curb in his truck destroying his $4k+ set of wheels yesterday.

These events are getting less and less interesting to me as too many people with little to no class show up as they get more popular.

zdeckich

Lowered 4 door chevy? Think i seen a video on that lol.

Black 02

That's the one!