It was very unlikely that the car would come over the wall? Watch it again.
Maybe not the whole car, but the rear wheel is up on top of the wall at one point. That makes it quite possible that something could snag and wrench the wheel off. Even just a wheel, at a mere 50mph, can ruin your whole day. On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:37:18PM -0500, paul stenquist wrote: > If you watch the video, it's obvious that the car isn't moving very fast. It > veered right immediately off the starting line and probably hit the wall at > less than 50 mph. Still frightening, but nothing like a 200+ mph crash. It > was very unlikely that the car would come over the wall. And the photographer > got some great shots. > Paul > On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:53 PM, John Francis wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 06:27:05PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: > >> From: Larry Colen > >>> frank theriault wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>> ...although he ended up with some great shots, he could also just as > >>>>>>> easily ended up dead. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234929/Cheating-death-The-moment-British-photographer-narrowly-escapes-crushed-runaway-drag-race-car.html > >>>>>> Now ~that's~ dedication! Or stupidity. > >>> > >>> Or he was too scared to move. > >>> > >> > >> Too busy rehearsing his acceptance speech for the Darwin Awards banquette. > > > > He looks more thanm old enough to have passed on his genes by now, > > which makes him ineligible for the Darwin awards. > > > > Personally I agree he's an idiot. Although the laws of physics make it > > reasonably easy to predict roughly where the car is going to end up, he's > > cutting it much too fine (leaving a margin of safety measured in inches, > > not in feet). If I'd ever done anything that stupid at the track I'd > > have expected my credentials to be revoked. While I (or my estate) would > > have had no comeback against either the series or the venue, they don't > > need the bad publicity that would automatically ensue, and the other > > working photographers don't need extra rules designed to protect idiots. > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
