The clip below shows a rally driver losing control and using a escape road during a rally event. He reverses back and tells a camera man that he is sorry for running over his camera. The child was not hit, but only cried because it was scared.
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
Video: Rally Driver Stops to Say Sorry
Motorsports, Videos — By MR on June 16, 2011 at 9:36 pm — No Comments
Car Crash: Lamborghini LP570-4 Performante Crashed on Dodgeball Rally 2011
Car Crashes, Lamborghini — By MR on June 17, 2011 at 9:49 pm — 4 Comments
With huge sadness we have to bring you the following news. The very first Lamborghini LP570-4 Performante – one who has been regularly seen in London – has been crashed in an accident during the 2011 Dodgeball Rally. The accident happened somewhere in France.
We can confirm that the driver and passenger are ok and walked away from the accident without any major injuries.
Below you will see a video by our friend Shmee150 and of the sports car in its better days.
Rally champ’s near-crash at 150mph
Mark Higgins was born on the Isle of Man. He started karting there at age nine, knows the 37-mile TT course like the back of his hand and has even won the British rally championship three times.
And this was the ‘biggest moment' of his life.
Once you've picked up your jaw, Mark managed to set a new lap record around the TT in his modified Subaru WRX STI of 19m 56.67secs. Modifications by way of a rollcage, uprated springs and dampers, Mintex competition brake pads, a set of street-legal but highly sticky Pirellis and the removal of the speed limiter and catalytic converter, making it rather loud indeed.
He clocked an average speed of 113mph along the famous circuit, and smashed the previous four-wheeler record set by Tony Pond in a Rover 827 Vitesse in 1990. All this, along a course consisting mostly of unmodified public streets and mountain roads, hence the unexpected bump and subsequent panic-attack while Higgins was sailing through at 150mph in sixth gear.
And while we're on all things Isle of Man, we do recommend you watch TT legend John McGuinness' press conference from last week. It's funny.
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