Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Wreck in Japan

[Michael James (cavallino_rapante]

Lots of dynamics at-play in Group Drives that isn't always good, I've been in a few that could have had identical results State-side.  These guys should have been 12-14 car-lengths apart - impossible to maintain on a highway when you have much-slower traffic that thinks there's plenty of room to jump in front of you with that amount of distance available.  The wild card is 'outsiders' that groups have to share the asphalt with.  All it takes is one person to mis-judge the closing gap between two vehicles travelling at wildly dis-similar speeds....

 

M

 

 

From: Adam Green <FlatCrank [at] gmail.com>
To: Michael <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Wreck in Japan

I think it's a bit off to mix cultures, but I tend to agree with the general idea -- the "drivers" (and I use the honorific generously for these lemmings) should be summarily black-listed from owning a Ferrari ever again.  Let them all be punished with driving a Japanese car with electronic controls on all driver inputs.  I think the GTR would be a fitting fate.

Conversely, while ritual seppuku is irrelevant to this carnage, speaking from first hand experience, the Italian response to crashing at high speed surrounded by cars and metal, is to light a cigarette, kiss a beautiful member of the opposite sex and be driving another Ferrari before the day is out. : )

Adam

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:09 PM, dale sailors <sailorsdaleedward [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello

      Given the location, wouldn't have a mass demonstration of hari-kiri been appropriate for the drivers? The police could have served as seconds.

      Regards

      Dale 

From: Adam Green <FlatCrank [at] gmail.com>
To: dale sailors <sailorsdaleedward [at] yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Wreck in Japan

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:56 PM, dale sailors <sailorsdaleedward [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello friends

             Did you see the item on Yahoo's header about the wreck in Japan totaling

8 Ferraris, 1 L-car and 2 MBs! It looks like at least 1 458 and 1 F40 was involved?

Assuming they must have been incompetent drivers, drunk, high, running on each others taillights and way over their collective heads. What do you guys think?

              Regards

              Dale

I guess it's a slow news day for Ferraris self-combusting or their owners following suit. : ) 

Here's the Jalopnik follow-up ...

http://jalopnik.com/5865117/how-the-worlds-most-expensive-car-crash-happened?autoplay

Looks like some over-zealous, under-talented types en route to a hot rod get-together took the fail bus home.

Shame.

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