Underground Racing TT Gallardo wrecks at Texas Mile
 

I assume most of you know about the Texas mile, and even if not, you'll want to see this.

The UR Gallardo that went 250.1 last year at the mile, seen here: Underground Racing 250 MPH Twin-Turbo Lamborghini at the Texas Mile

was trying to surpass his record this year, but ended in tragedy when this happened: Underground Racing Twin Turbo Gallardo Crashes At 200+MPH Texas Mile

Google can help you find anymore info that you may want. It's all over the forums.

Underground Racing TT Gallardo wrecks at Texas Mile
 

HOLY ****!!!!
It's hard to believe the driver walked away from that.
Safety equipment FTW.


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It seems from watching both videos it's all driver error.

sounds like a ****ing jet lol

The car was obviously sick of going in a straight line and wanted to make some turns.

thats horrific... i cant believe anyone made it out alive.....

That's intense...thank goodness he survived and walked away! Safety first kids!

There has been a lot of discussion on this. Apparently there is more than meets the eye in both videos. By that I mean, there may, or may not, have been strategy to the spins after the mile in the first video, and that there were numerous factors in the second video that ultimately led to the demise of the car.


Also, FWIW, the Gallardo put down just south of 2000whp before the mile. I wanna say it was in the 17-1800whp range?

I would have to agree. That was a nice car though.

holy crap....Looks like once he pop that chute the car just literally went ballistic

saw this car in person in houston last march, it really is a monster.

*Was.

^^ lmao

there are prolly 2-3 others to replace it

I am really amazed that he survived. It is surprising how far safety precautions have come to save lives from the wildest of crashes.

work computer FTL. ill check it later.

I'm surprised he got away from that with a roll bar and what looked like a harness and a helmet, if anything I think his safety precautions were lacking. I wish that second vid had the quality of the first.

Underground Racing TT Gallardo wrecks at Texas Mile
 

Jalopnik has some info on and the vid

still trying to figure out why the hell you would spin your lambo out on purpose.

amd also, if he didnt need the chute in the first one why did he need it in the second one? he probably forgot it was there and went to do more 360's:roll:

That thing sounds crazy!!!!

The car had a full cage, harness, and fire suppression system done by UR, I guess.

I guess back in March, he wasn't comfortable with reaching to where the lever for the chute was at, so he went with spinning it to scrub speed. Obviously, it would have been smarter to work up your speed getting comfortable with the chute, but he wanted 250. This time they're saying the chute unsettled the car and a cross wind caught it and made it veer off course, which resulted in contact with a small barrier, and then... well...

if you have good brakes, which i assume you would on on a car like that the brakes are gonna take off more speed then spinning out. and about 100x safer

I dont think the guy understand to lift off the throttle lightly should avoid spinning out. every time.

And go figure he'd hit the only thing in sight.

I took some quotes/posts from over on SVTP where it was a big topic of discussion.

And some pictures that were posted on SVTP:


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Only on TST would there be clowns who immediately place the blame on the driver. Just out of curiousity, have any of those in question above, ever driven a Twin Turbo Gallardo that can lay down 2000whp and ever gone past 200mph? By watching the video you can clearly tell a crosswind grabbed the chute, and I believe there were several Porsche guys who were going to run their 996tt's but didn't want to risk it with the conditions at the Mile.

Seriously TST, maybe try to not be so goddamn overbearing and arrogant all the time- I mean Christ give the driver a break.

It is all driver error he was never comfortable with the car he said it himself, you just don't go out and do 250 because your car can it's his fault for being an asshole, if he worked his way up to 250 it would be a different story.

going to agree here

wow never saw a lambo disintegrate like that before... or any car besides funny cars and top fuel dragsters

FWIW, its not the guys first rodeo. I'm not sure on the specifics but he races regularly. He apparently has a drag bike (turbo IIRC) and he races Pro-Mod cars. I guess in the video(I haven't looked yet), you can see he got on the brakes before the chute fully blossomed, which caused the rear to get extra light and result in mayhem.

yes he might have ran a car a million times over 240 but it only takes one mistake for **** to hit the fan, and yes he was on the brakes when chute was not all the way open which he prob didnt realize or maybe the cross wind had something to do with it all we know he wont do it again.

Completely agree.

Agreed Dude was a mess. He was stopping on the brakes and if you watch any of his driving his reactions are slow. Money can't buy skills I guess.

i would have never done the run with the wind heard on that camera lol