I think this deserve a post itself. 9minute or so of a roaring 3 rotar rx8!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMW09hKJQIQ

WWW.ROTARYENG.NET GT250 Race at Daytona. The 70 car wins again. Nick Ham and Sylvain Tremblay. The 69 car crashes with Jeff Segal. No beating a high power to weight ratio engine. Light weight is everything in anything that moves. We are just scratching the surface of the potential of the Wankel rotary engine. It could be, combined with a turbine, one of the most efficient internal combustion engines ever.

 

Awesome watch

 

thanks for the music man is f sick wow !!!!

 

great vid, watching that 8 flip over made me a little sick tho. Sucks seeing such a well built vehicle be wrecked like that.

 

same. love the sounds of this video

 

is it legal to clip a car and make it crash like that?? i mean, are drivers penalized or something when they do that on purpose?

 

What a great cover
Yay mazda.
BUCKLE UP! lol

 

From what I heard in the vid the 69 was in error. They run multiple classes at the same time and the slower class is supposed to let the faster prototypes run the wall at the exit of a turn.

 

Thanks for the POST we all enjoied it...more anytime...

 

I agree with this statement, great vid thanks for sharing..

Good thing the guy got out ok..

 

yea but the other car could've at least braked instead of plowing it!

 

That is correct. The DP's take the high lane and the GT's take the lower lane. However, in this case, that DP hit the #69 car and didn't even try to avoid or mimimize the accident. He keep pushing the car until it flipped.

 

Yeah...its ALMOST as if he do it intentionally...oh well

That video got TONS of great sound of the rotary and an "awesome" crash...so yeah good found for me o

 

Braking, especially braking hard, on a banked oval is trickier than it sounds.

 

Sure but he could have slowed down considerably by just getting off the gas and most likely kept the car from flipping.

 

Is there a reason why the exhaust is at the side of the car?

What does 250 means in GT250? In the motorbike world, that denotes engine capacity. Does it mean 250 laps?

 

Wrong!

 

How wrong? From what I understand Rwagz is spot on. The GT cars are supposed to give the GTP's the outside on the banking at Daytona. . . and he should have known the GTP was on his tail by the color of the headlights. I saw this race when it originally broadcasted and I don't think there was any dispute that #69 was in the wrong.

I agree with some of the other comments that the GTP is not entirely blameless, however, in that 1) he should have known the he'd be in a big blind spot for the #69 - he could've waited to make his move once the #69 committed, and 2) he should have let off once contact was made.

 

lol are we still on this subject lol

 

Yeah, I was late to post but saw Dom's last post and thought it was worth reopening.

 

the gtp had a choice--and he choose to do what he did. he wasnt racing against the rx8 and that was a cheap shot. that incident could have been avoided and the gtp car was wrong--rule or no rule.
olddragger

 

awesome vid