Ferrari 250TR smacks some tires

Postby **Huzer** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:14

The old racing adage applies, if you can't afford to wad up your car at the track, don't race it. I'd like to have their coin to repair this old beauty.

http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/ferrari-250tr-crash-at-the-monterey-historics

Renesis Rx · Postby **Renesis Rx** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:14

Hope that was a replica or kit car.

MazdaTom · Postby **MazdaTom** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:14

Eh, big deal really. It's a Ferrari out on the track- where it's meant to be. It's more of a shame to see an old Ferrari like that being rubbed with a diaper and never truely used as it should.

I hope it was an original Ferrari and the owner/driver were having the best time of their lives right up until they left the racing surface.

Postby **Huzer** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:14

Well, primarily, I'm just jealous. I'd like to have a 250TR, and the money to race/repair one! That said, pretty much every 50's/60's Ferrari has been raced and wrecked at some point. The TRs, GTOs, etc were all barely road going cars to begin with.

Colombia28 · Postby **Colombia28** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:14

That looks like the corkscrew at Laguna Seca. Claims another victim. How i want to run at Laguna one day :9b5bde:

Tyler [S5 FC] · Postby **Tyler [S5 FC]** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:14

No after shots of the car? I'm really curious what happened, looks like the corkscrew at Leguna Seca, yeah?

~Barn~ · Postby **~Barn~** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:14

If he binned it in The Corkscrew, I have absolutely no idea how he hit the *passenger* side of that car? I've ridden it, and when you overcook that turn (I've done it...)

you actually run your car/bike/vehicle off to the left side of the track.

In the background of the pictures, it does look like Laguna's landscape, but unless he had "a mechanical", I just can't see how you could do that, at that spot on the track?

Tyler [S5 FC] · Postby **Tyler [S5 FC]** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:14

... understeer

~Barn~ · Postby **~Barn~** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:14

I dunno, but something's weird. You haulin' ass up one uphill straight, then an easy left hand bend to another uphill straight away... haulin'... haulin'.... brake, and then everything goes left, until you tip it back in for the drop off. (?)

To smash up the right side of your rig like that, you would have to turn in about 20 - 30 feet early, over the rumblestrip, and and keep steering your car that way toward the wall.

Either way... Wherever he was, and whatever happened, dude was screamin' to get air like that. Ha!

Ferrari 250TR smacks some tires

Ferrari 250TR smacks some tires

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