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  1. Roadney

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    #1 Roadney, May 14, 2013
    Race car driver Shigeru Terajima in April was involved in a severe accident at the Suzuka racing circuit.

    And the racetrack video, which is just now starting to go viral, shows that the the accident was really pretty awful:

    This High Speed Ferrari Crash Is Terrible & Horrifying - YouTube


    Ferrari 458s were racing at Suzuka when one of them was involved in a simply insane accident. The driver and a corner worker were injured, but should be ok. That’s unreal, because this is one of the worst accidents I’ve ever seen.

    …Terajima was driving his yellow 458 when something went very wrong on the front straight. The car spears right after pit out, hitting the safety barrier. The car basically disintegrated.

    Luckily, no one was killed:


    Amazingly, Terajima and the nearby corner worker survived the crash. Terajima is in serious condition at the hospital, but it sounds like he’ll pull through. The corner worker is also in the hospital, but he seems to be in better shape than Terajima. Unbelievable
     
  2. rob lay

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    #2 rob lay, May 14, 2013
    a bunch of stupid right there.

    1) it was start of warm down lap, why was he speeding? not see checkered flag and kept racing avoiding slowing cars?

    2) why didn't the safety workers immediately respond? that's their job, if you don't want to take the responsibility or risk then don't volunteer or work the event.

    3) why were some workers more worried about the white sheets than actually helping?

    4) why did that driver pull over when there were already plenty of safety workers there? I can understand back stretch away from safety workers, but racer pulling over will just get in the way.

    5) cars are built to break apart like that these days! It was a hard hit, but cars of past would have held together and not looked as bad, but the driver would have died.

    full credit goes to the worker that was willing to crawl up under the other side of car trying to help out. one reason I don't race anymore, there is too much stupid out there between workers and other racers to risk my life.
     
  3. spyderman

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    #3 spyderman, May 14, 2013
    What was Terajima thinking?!?!? The race was over and the winner was starting his victory lap when Terajima still looks to be racing at full speed when he hit the barrier. That collision makes very little sense and should not have happened when it did!
     
  4. HK boy

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    #4 HK boy, May 14, 2013
    Is the drive by wire system made by Toyota? Another case of unintented acceleration?

    Just joking :)
     
  5. TheMayor

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    #5 TheMayor, May 14, 2013
    Wow that is a terrible crash. It's hard to tell but it looks like the corner worker flew all the way to the opposite fence behind him.

    I don't understand as it seems like it was the cool down lap. I've never seen an accident where the corner workers are congratulating the racers and someone crashes at such high speed.

    Thank heavens they all appear they will pull through OK. A speedy recovery to all.
     
  6. GuyIncognito

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    #6 GuyIncognito, May 14, 2013
    agree 100%

    (And I didn't know you were done racing...do you still have the challenge car?)
     
  7. rob lay

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    #7 rob lay, May 14, 2013
    2011 with CCR was my last season. I will keep the Challenge forever, just run track days now and then.
     
  8. GuyIncognito

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    #8 GuyIncognito, May 14, 2013
    gotcha-glad you still have her :)
     
  9. Garretto

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    #9 Garretto, May 14, 2013
    Wow, Rob, I don't understand your comments... it seemed almost immediate help to me. The white sheet guys have their function, silly as it probably is, but they're no doctors I guess. Also, this is not likely the kind of crash where getting the driver out of the car as quickly as possible is a good idea, I guess they need a couple of minutes to evaluate the situation before proceeding.
     
  10. rob lay

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    #10 rob lay, May 14, 2013
    you don't understand why I had a problem with driver going that fast after checker, safety workers not heading towards the crash right away, one of first workers worrying about the white sheet instead of what he could do to help victim, the other driver pulling over, and then why the car broke apart? :rolleyes:
     
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    #11 Garretto, May 14, 2013
    Actually I don't understand comments #2 and #3, it looks to me like a perfectly acceptable reaction time and workers/medical staff actuation. But then again I don't race any challenge series, I hope that doesn't disqualify me to give an opinion :)
     
  12. wazie7262

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    #12 wazie7262, May 14, 2013
    Can NOT believe the driver survived.
     
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    #13 MD326, May 14, 2013
    The driver? How about the corner worker? Holy smokes.
     
  14. TheMayor

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    #14 TheMayor, May 14, 2013
    I've worked in Japan since 1980 and I can tell you, everyone just follows orders of what they are trained to do. It's not that they don't care. It's the way things are.

    If a guy is trained to hold up a white sheet, that's what he does. No need to criticize him. It's how they are trained and actually, it works pretty well vs the "Chinese fire drill" method.
     
  15. rob lay

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    #15 rob lay, May 14, 2013
    I will certainly criticize him because I can picture myself as that driver or family onlooking. Each person needs to do all they can do as quickly as they can. If the best he can do is hold up a white sheet then stay the hell out of the way of everyone else, instead he was mingling around getting in the way when the white sheet wasn't needed yet. The other driver stopping when several were already there helping was only getting in the way.

    I will repeat, plenty of stupid going on.
     
  16. Texas Forever

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    #16 Texas Forever, May 14, 2013
    The only thing that makes any sense is that this driver didn't see the checker, which means he wasn't paying attention to the flag men.

    The problem with this assumption is that this is very scary stuff. I can see a newbie making this kind of mistake, but aren't these challenge guys vetted? Or is the only qualification being able to write a check?

    Dale
     
  17. rob lay

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    #17 rob lay, May 14, 2013
    they do a pretty good job, but everything I've seen over the years the average Ferrari Challenge guy is below the average SCCA/NASA guy. Most of your SCCA/NASA guys don't start out in a 500 HP race car though.
     
  18. Texas Forever

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    #18 Texas Forever, May 14, 2013
    It is bad enough when **** happens. But this was completely avoidable.

    Dale
     
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    #19 kylec, May 14, 2013
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    #20 Bas, May 15, 2013
    1) I don't know, but we don't have the full story here. Could be the driver had a heart attack, or was caught out when a driver further in front of him slowed down and he caught it to late, veering off towards the left and result this crash...

    2)They where there within 20 seconds, pretty good response if you ask me?

    3) In Europe and Asia at least, in case of a serious accident they have these sheets to prevent spectators/cameras from seeing a dead person, or loss of limbs etc. Also out of respect to the family of course...if the person did die they don't want to find out when watching on TV and certainly don't want pictures/video of this plastered all over the net.

    4) could be a friend. I agree that he should've pulled away a little further though

    5) I'm not sure what your point is here...Surely more debris but less injury/death is better than no debris but death all over?
     
  21. asianbond

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    #21 asianbond, May 15, 2013
    Guys, i was there competing in the same race.

    What we assume is that the driver did not realize the race was over and was still full throttle down main straight when car in front slow down cause the race was over. He is a very experience racer so it probably wasn't rookie era.

    The driver is still in a coma and all signs point toward him waking up soon.

    Let's cut him some slack and pray for a speedy recovery.
     
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    #22 Bas, May 15, 2013
    Thanks for confirming on his condition and one of my suspicions on why he crashed like he did.

    I hope he recovers fully!
     
  23. rob lay

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    #23 rob lay, May 15, 2013
    possible, likely at this point seems driver error though. or if airplane accident reports are a guide it is always the pilots fault. either he missed flag, he shouldn't have been racing as medical, or his fault driving a car with mechanical problems. ;)

    I'm looking for the immediate response, not the deer in the headlights. some can run 200 meters in 20 seconds.

    you don't have to explain what the white sheets are for! only an idiot wouldn't know, I'm talking about why he got there so early, got in the way, and why they were needed just yet.

    simple, all the parts going everywhere isn't indicative of how serious the impact was.
     
  24. Noblesse Oblige

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    #24 Noblesse Oblige, May 15, 2013
    Appalling crash.

    In addition to the old fashioned chequered flag, was there a light signal of some kind to indicate that the race was over?
     
  25. rob lay

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    #25 rob lay, May 15, 2013
    you always race to the checkered even if back of the field. sometimes warm down gets sketchy as some slow way down waving to workers and crowd while others want to race back to pits for tire temps, others just plain miss the flag. If you miss the checkered you can always figure out race is over from corner workers clapping at you and waving flags.
     
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