subaru's were meant to be crashed

carlvr4 · 07-27-2009

rolled the car 3 times at nemadji trail 3. I carried a lot more speed through the first few corners than we did at nemadji 1 or 2 and I didn't set-up for this corner accordingly - I set-up about 10ft too late and the right rear tire hooked the soft sand that built up as the cars ahead of us went through. with our n/a engine I didn't have enough torque to pull back out of the sand and it dropped us into the ditch sideways at 65+ mph. Car is actually in pretty good shape for being flipped 3 times over a distance of around 100 ft. We will have it repaired for Ojibwe. Both the co-driver and myself came out relative unscathed (Dave bruised his ribs badly) and I smashed my knee into the steering column. We both took a lot of glass to the hands.

In the video you can see my arm come out - I'm reaching for the shifter to downshift because I realized the sand was pulling us to the outside but by then we were already airborn. Next you will see Dave's arm come up to cover his face since all the glass around him broke.

Utech also rolled at this rally and another car took a tree in the passenger's side so it was a pretty bad day all-in-all. At least no one was hurt.

maybe now it's time to make my gvr4 into a rally car?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ZaugEGamw

**Goat Blower** · 07-27-2009

Yikes, that takes balls.

carlvr4 · 07-27-2009

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Originally Posted by Goat Blower

Yikes, that takes balls.

which incidentally don't feel all the terrific due to the anti-sub belts

**scheides** · 07-27-2009

That'll buff right out.

Matt D. · 07-27-2009

Sucks to see, Carl.

But hey, at least it wasn't an Evo.

CVD · 07-27-2009

Holy shit that little camera is a trooper.

1QUICK4 · 07-27-2009

Glad you guys are OK, looks like a rough accident.

C3L1CA · 07-28-2009

Wow, thats an impressive crash. Glad to hear you guys walked away from it!

Kevin 1G Drummer · 07-28-2009

Wow, that's pretty rough. Maybe it's time for lexan windows? Glad to hear everyone came away relatively unscathed.

carlvr4 · 07-28-2009

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Originally Posted by Kevin_1G_Drummer

Wow, that's pretty rough. Maybe it's time for lexan windows? Glad to hear everyone came away relatively unscathed.

we are required to run safety glass on the windshield. side windows would be nice to upgrade to lexan

TkrPerformance · 07-30-2009

glad you guys made it out ok.
this is why I will never rally the evo III and get pissed when people all ways ask if I will do it.

SnoEclipse · 07-30-2009

311evo · 07-30-2009

Damn, glad to hear everyone is okay.

OMGkiwi · 07-30-2009

I was just glad to hear thst carl was ok. I think he's gonna look for a gc to swap everything onto om nom nom

carlvr4 · 07-30-2009

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Originally Posted by OMGkiwi

I was just glad to hear thst carl was ok. I think he's gonna look for a gc to swap everything onto om nom nom

probably not but I did almost buy a second rally car to run while we fixed this one lol

the good word is that it looks like we didn't bend the valves when the timing belt jumped