Gallardo goes off road

For those of you that haven't seen this:

At the Texas mile, a twin-turbo Lamborghini hit 250 mph. However, the event was run with a very strong crosswind. At the finish line, the driver popped a parachute. The parachute worked just like it's supposed to--except that due to the crosswind, it caused the car to weathervane into the wind:

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20101026/CARNEWS/101029927

Dam

Im sure the ferrari owners watched in horror from the sidelines waxing their cars and discussing how such a thing never would happen to them with their racing heritage

Hard to believe the driver walked away. That was nasty.

I'm amazed the car stayed together. Notice that the car did not break in half nor did it jettison the engine and/or drive train - unlike other exotics (see below). Some days it pays to drive an Audi.

cars like the Enzo and CGT ate desinged to split in half just like F1 cars to absorb the blow. When I had the engine out of the CGT you could clearly see where and how the CGT was suposed to, pretty cool


and that G had a role cage in it.....

Good point. The trajectory of the car resulted in head-on (and "tail-on" ) contact with the ground, so the front end and back end aborbed most of the energy of the impact. If it had landed flat on the roof, I wonder if the roll cage would have held up? Certainly without it the results would have been considerably more grim.

I think if you crashed it that way 9 more times half the time he may have walked away the other half not so much. Probualy more luck of how the car absorbed the impact than anything. Crashes over 150mph cause internal organs to smack around and bleed, the cage might hold up being slammed to the ground over 200mph on the roof, but I doubt the drivers various inside organs would