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It was about half a minute … and basically it was engulfed in flames.”Firefighters arrived within minutes, the witness says: “The fire department started dousing [the car]. Most people don’t have the luxury of actually Nevertheless, the four small patches of rubber connecting your two-ton manslaughter machine to your city’s lowest-priced asphalt are, if you ask me, the best way to improve your car, or, the quickest way to fuck it up, crash, and even die. Your tires are the most important part of your car. I’m not saying you should be legally allowed to rip around an office park at 90, but from a technical sense, the actual I know no one wants to hear this, but I’m going to say it: Roger was a great driver, and actually quite conservative. It’s known for being nasty, sharing its legacy alongside the Ford GT as the last of the truly analog cars, discontinued because the government said we need stability control now.Sort of like the Porsche 550 Spyder, a beautiful and successful racing machine far overshadowed by the young, handsome actor who happens to have killed himself in one.I haven’t driven a Carrera GT in years, but I’m told that fitting a new set of Pilot Super Sports or Cup2’s on them really improve the drivability and dial back a bit of the sketchiness. Paul, as big of a gearhead as he was, had never been in a Carrera GT before.
Celebrity They were only gone for five or ten minutes and never came back.”“The crash happened right behind the Always Evolving warehouse, just one street over in a commercial area,” Torp says.“Suddenly I heard a loud bang in the distance,” he continues. They can make you faster, they can save your life, or they can get you killed, even if you’re the star of a major car-centric action franchise, and even if you aren’t driving.
I say this with a straight face after losing two friends in that crash.As badly as I feel for both Paul and Roger’s children, it is my opinion that the wrongful death lawsuit against Porsche is a greedy lawyer cash grab and has very little to do with the Walker or Rodas family, both of whom have plenty of money to live off.The point, kids, is if you have a car you don’t drive very often; or if you buy a car from a collection and it has low miles; or if you buy a car that has been sitting for any period of time, or used sporadically: check the tires, and change the tires. Neither of them would live to see the end of the day.Roger, an avid car collector with more than 50 cars to his name—including what I believe is the largest collection of Saleen cars in the world—had just bought himself a Porsche Carrera GT out of a long-term collection.The red-over-black Carrera GT was the right color combo and had a famous owner in its history: Graham Rahal. It's looked — and felt — like a whole different world as we've been social distancing and attempting to keep each other safe All of it worked.The bad news? It’s got a notoriously grabby clutch, a manic engine, and no electronic drivers aids whatsoever. Where the car had crashed was on a long straightaway. “People were trying to get extinguishers but it was just too much. With old tires, it’s not like you get oversteer or understeer, and you then correct, and back it down. You have to go into the Grassroots Motorsports catalog, or to a very specific sub-genre to see a tire comparison test for your desired application, so most people just end up reading reviews on TireRack.Tires are a dull topic even when we’re actively shopping for tires.
He wanted me to testify that I thought the Carrera GT was a dangerous car, an opinion that he presented to me, and not the other way around.I do not think the Carrera GT is inherently dangerous; I just don’t think it’s reasonable to expect a car to save passengers in a 90 mph broadside crash, nor to expect that the lack of stability management, rather than the old tires, caused the crash. They, like the car attached to them, were 9 years old.Roger lost control of the Carrera GT at an estimated 90 mph, and hit a tree.I was distraught the first couple of days, but honestly, all I could think about was how the crash happened, and I just kept going back to that day at Spring Mountain.
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He has a wife and two young children. As they say, the life you save, may be your own.Technology, performance and design delivered to your inbox.We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Drive Wire: Porsche Responds to Paul Walker LawsuitDriving an R34 GT-R as tribute to the heart of the Brian O’Conner was behind the wheel for one last drive. Princess Diana died when Harry was just 12 years old
He had just taken delivery of the car that week.
I arrive in the paddock at Spring Mountain to find out that, as usual, every other person at the track has taken this event much more seriously than I have. In general, five years from date of manufacture (stamped on the tire) is about as old as you ever want to go in a car you plan to drive quickly.