Well - well - well.
I was - like st-anger kind of surprised by the remarks by some.
Crazy behaviour sometimes results in bad outcome... but damn... such anger and hate from fellow car enthusiats.
And 256kmh is not that fast in the grand scheme of things.
Any one of us with 400+hp cars can run to 140mph in 4th gear and 20 seconds.
150mph on that straight road is not that fast in the grand scheme of things either.
Many of us with hi-powered cars psend a lot of time in the 90 to 120mph range when we are out in the back roads and freeways. You don't blast past to many people going that speed... but hen again spinning off the road at 90mph is just as destructive as spinning off the road at 110 mph - and 140mph is only slightly more devastating.
It's like choosing between being run over by a semi-truck, a bus or a train - either way it's gonna hurt - a lot.
Back to the accident on hand.
What a sad loss for the driver's family and himslef and a startling loss for Ferrari fanclub.. another car down..
BUt, for anyone to sit around online and type "why did he what did and when did he" blah blah, you are either drivign a camry all day or you have never really syepped into the realm of high performance street cars.
Because if you ever had, you would have put the pedal to the metal and got a bit of speed under your tyres.
There is no "safe place" to go fast, hell, there is no safe place to go slow - it's all a calculated risk - you look ahead, you evaluate the situaiton at the moment you hit the gas and get on it.
You focus and pay attention, but if something is going to happen, a blowout,, a bump that bottoms the suspension and skips the car across the road or a suspension tie rod lets go etc - it's gogn to happen and you just hope it doesn't.
I am a little set back by the anger and hatred and downright holier than thou comments made in this thread.
He didn't "deserve to die" - he simply paid the price for giving it stick. There is a big difference between the 2. It is also something many of us expose our selves to when we get in our cars to drive to work alongside a 40ton truck at 60mph or on a country road at 150mph.
Either is not that far fetched of a scenario to experience.