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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Andy H on 24 October 2014, 14:47:25

Title: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: Andy H on 24 October 2014, 14:47:25
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11182228/Ferrari-F50-crashes-on-A43.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11182228/Ferrari-F50-crashes-on-A43.html)
Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: ronnyd on 24 October 2014, 15:00:22
Perhaps someone wasn,t as good a driver as they thought they were. ::)
Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: Kevin Wood on 24 October 2014, 15:07:26
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"It looked like a test drive gone wrong and they had clearly come around the roundabout to head towards Silverstone and applied too much power whilst trying to pull away from a silver Omega which was having none of it.

 ::)
Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: Broomies Mate on 24 October 2014, 15:13:32
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"It looked like a test drive gone wrong and they had clearly come around the roundabout to head towards Silverstone and applied too much power whilst trying to pull away from a silver Omega which was having none of it.

 ::)

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Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: Webby the Bear on 24 October 2014, 15:31:45
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"It looked like a test drive gone wrong and they had clearly come around the roundabout to head towards Silverstone and applied too much power whilst trying to pull away from a silver Omega which was having none of it.

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Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: henryd on 24 October 2014, 15:37:28
Maybe the oil leak from said silver Omega caused the road to be a little slippy in places ::) :D
Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 24 October 2014, 15:46:11
Okay ...it was me. :'(

I'm used to 180 BHP but 500 italian stallions rather caught me by surprise.  :)

Shit happens. :)

Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: GastronomicKleptomaniac on 24 October 2014, 16:36:25
Okay ...it was me. :'(

I'm used to 180 BHP but 500 italian stallions rather caught me by surprise.  :)

Shit happens. :)

All that about your insurance company and theyve given you a Ferrari as a courtesy conservatory?
Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 24 October 2014, 16:46:06
Another case of a racing car being used in a way that was wrong for a public road ::) ::) ::) :P
Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: omega3000 on 24 October 2014, 18:52:15
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"It looked like a test drive gone wrong and they had clearly come around the roundabout to head towards Silverstone and applied too much power whilst trying to pull away from a silver Omega which was having none of it.

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Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 24 October 2014, 19:50:26
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"It looked like a test drive gone wrong and they had clearly come around the roundabout to head towards Silverstone and applied too much power whilst trying to pull away from a silver Omega which was having none of it.

 ::)

 ;D ;D ;D

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Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: biggriffin on 25 October 2014, 07:55:42
Another case of a racing car being used in a way that was wrong for a public road ::) ::) ::) :P

How! That incident is clear driver error. Nothing to do with the car.
Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: TheBoy on 25 October 2014, 10:13:01
Why am I looking at the photo and thinking that isn't the A43, and certainly not the BP roundabout (the only one between Brackley and Silverstone).

Besides, grip levels on that roundabout should be excellent, with several millimetres of Dunlop's best being laid regularly when the 'tards at BP "forget" to order fuel.
Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: omega3000 on 25 October 2014, 18:55:58
Why am I looking at the photo and thinking that isn't the A43, and certainly not the BP roundabout (the only one between Brackley and Silverstone).

Besides, grip levels on that roundabout should be excellent, with several millimetres of Dunlop's best being laid regularly when the 'tards at BP "forget" to order fuel.

 ;D
Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: TheBoy on 25 October 2014, 19:07:31
As suspected, not signs of bent lamp posts between the Buckingham Road roundabout and Towcester, including Silverstone (in between the 2).

So I think some poetic licence in the reporting...
Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: biggriffin on 25 October 2014, 19:38:12
As suspected, not signs of bent lamp posts between the Buckingham Road roundabout and Towcester, including Silverstone (in between the 2).

So I think some poetic licence in the reporting...
Is it the old A43 towards Silverstone  :)
Title: Re: Car trouble in Brackley......
Post by: TheBoy on 26 October 2014, 09:12:35
As suspected, not signs of bent lamp posts between the Buckingham Road roundabout and Towcester, including Silverstone (in between the 2).

So I think some poetic licence in the reporting...
Is it the old A43 towards Silverstone  :)
My thoughts exactly, but that isn't the dual carriageway then ;)