Beef was killed in a 307.Quote:
Originally Posted by JRodrigues
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Beef was killed in a 307.Quote:
Originally Posted by JRodrigues
Sorry for the incorrection. Although Latvala's crash in Portugal showed how the Focus has improved.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Are you serious?Quote:
Originally Posted by JRodrigues
Rollcage isn't a magic tool that can twist and bend the laws of physics. All those Ford accidents (and Park in Peugeot btw.) were crashes where the level of speed was high and the area to which all forces were dissipated was very small. Adding the fact, that impacts were side or roof orientated.
I think that the best testimony of Ford's rollcages being actually robust are the Galli incident in Germany and Mikko's semi-crash in GB in 2006. Galli had a fifth gear (165+kph) side orientated crash to solid objects and the only injury was? A broken femur! :eek: That's one helluva achievement! Ofcourse the "200 mm rule" also helped in the situation. Mikko hit a big stone sideways with speed of about 100 kph. The "funny" thing about the crash was that Mikko wasn't hurt at all - but then again Jarmo, who was sitting on the opposite side of the impact suffered a rib fracture. Because of the car body being so tough.
A very special case was Duval's off in Japan back in 2008. Patrick Pivato received life-threatening injuries but luckily survived. The surviving is solely because of a special rigid-steel beam which was incorporated to Focus' hemline (<- don't know the right autotechical word, called "helma" in Finnish). There's an article somewhere about this where Loriaux tells about it but I can't find it now...
I also don't understand what are these "serious injuries" you are talking about... Since when has a standard bone fracture been categorized as a serious injury? They are not inherently dangerous but they can lead to more severe injuries like in case of rib fracture to a pneumothorax or severe internal bleeding due to broken bone damaging internal organs.
The loss of Beef was a terrible tragedy but as far as I know, there wasn't involved anykind of rollcage failure. It did excatly what it was supposed to do - only the high speed, mass and the small force dissipating area were too strong opponents to the 307. What I have heard, the injuries leading to the terrible loss were head/neurological/neck orientated and there's very little what a rollcage can do against those kind of injuries - sadly. :(
"Possum" Bourne co-driver.Quote:
Originally Posted by JRodrigues
Bourne also died on a Subaru Forester on a road accident
Rodger Freeth. He wasn't any average Joe, held a Ph.D. in (astro)physics and was a distinguished academic. AFAIK he desinged and built some rather crazy cars while studying in the university.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICARDO75
Markko had a very nasty off in Argentina driving Ford (speed 170-180 kmh), destroyed the car completely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2vOv...has_verified=1
And Solberg the destroyed the Subaru in Germany.. Makinen in Argentina.. McRae's multiple crashes both in Legacy and Impreza..Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
Not completely... We saw that car in NORF 2010 driven by Jouni Arolainen. It've also been in use by Andreas Mikkelsen.Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
http://www.jouniarolainen.com/jone/e.../kalusto08.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEtMi9RrFAE
David Richards talks about mini and reveals fourth manufacturer ( skoda) in wrc
He says VW (and not Skoda) but we will see..Quote:
Originally Posted by GINE