In the first 10 minutes you saw a quick preview of what to expect. Martyn Hadlands Cosworth Escort (Rylands) and a Ferrari. Both crashes happened the same day in Africa, several thousand crash free miles from the start, both occured at what looked to be at not overly fast speed, but one was a mechanical failure, the other was due to excessive speed for the conditions. He hit a tractor after crossing a blind crest to fast to see it was clear to go on.
The German doign 250 was 250 KM hour, not MPH. At home in Germany it would be quite legal for him to do that, and no less safe on an empty tarmaced motorway standard road in Morocco. The bend was actually a sweeping curve that you find on most motorways, although even those can be tricky at that speed. A good car like his can easily sit stable as he demonstrated. Even at just over one 100MPH things feel different, never mind much higher. Try it on an empty stretch of motorway, or for legal reasons on a track somewhere. Until you experience it, you can think about it.
Wife asked me this.... 5553Brimstone I know, there were just rather a lot of them on the Wirral and their atbreastude to other road users...
The two manchester blokes in the Ferrari who crashed in town, did it at town speeds trying to accelerate to quickly. Hardly fast driving.
Gumball thing 5551I shouldn't have to spoon feed you. Yes, the pattern is that I get peeed off with people...
BTW, I thought it was a repeat of the previous years Gumball 3000, not last years Gumball 3000: 6 days in May event.
you have to be very wealthy and very much a risk taker to take part. 7 people lost their driving licenses within the first 4 hours. -- Carl Robson "Sorry Sir the meatballs are orf" (The poster formerly known as Skodapilot)
