Enzo crash in Utah

[Jims5543]

Originally posted by Souk
Jim,

The Enzo was on a closed road course.

From the news article" "For the final day, drivers raced down a closed section of highway to see how fast their cars could really go. That's when one of them crashed. "

I thought it was on a public road like the other wreck pictured. I just saw the link, somehow I missed it before, must have been distracted by the wreck.

I hate to see any nice car wrecked on a track but prefer it to happen there than on the street.

[artplumber]

Ferrari have to love this. First they produce "just less than the demand" to ensure all cars are sold at the highest price they can get. And then they have all these people crashing them to raise the price further.

[pwd72s]

For a before pic and article written by the owner, bragging of doing 215 on a highway, see your September Issue of ROAD & TRACK...page 91.

[450knotOffice]

Are you kidding me?!! I just read that little article a couple of days ago and remember thinking that he was crazy to go as fast as he had implied. What a beautiful car it was. What a shame.

[speeder]

Originally posted by artplumber
Ferrari have to love this. First they produce "just less than the demand" to ensure all cars are sold at the highest price they can get. And then they have all these people crashing them to raise the price further.

Compared to the number of original 250 GTOs crashed racing, this is nothing. Still a lot of Enzos left. I must say that I'm impressed w/ the safety they built into those things w/ now two guys surviving 150+mph crashes. Amazing.

[lowyder993s]

Wierd...
saw this guy rollin into Cal speedway in April...thought he was going into the paddock inside, but rolled out to where the Karts and ricers drift in the outside parking lot. Even at 6:30 a.m. he had ricers buzzing all around him on 10 eastbound. Think his Lic plate was MM ENZO.

[artplumber]

Originally posted by speeder
Compared to the number of original 250 GTOs crashed racing, this is nothing. Still a lot of Enzos left. I must say that I'm impressed w/ the safety they built into those things w/ now two guys surviving 150+mph crashes. Amazing.

And the prices for GTO's are?.....

[speeder]

Lets just say that they were a good investment.

[Jims5543]

I guess this is the race he was involved in?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5095272953237343178&q=Option+350Z

[MotoSook]

That is the Open Road Challenge which has been going on for years, and it's not held in Utah. As the banner at the start line indicates, it is in Nevada.

[Jims5543]

Nevada Utah whats the difference?

So it was a similar setup like that one a blst down a deserted public road?

Thats pretty cool!! I go to the Bay Bottom Crawl in the Keys and its on an abandoned deserted road. The huge difference is the fact that we cannot get much over 100MPH and the other being if you make a mistake you are going swimming. That last one really sticks in the back of your mind and seperates the men from the loonies.

I would imagine that Enzo was really cooking. Like that 350 in the video you never know what might happen.

I am also amazed at how intact the drivers compartment is. As bad as it looks it really held together.

[Noah930]

1. Glad to hear that the driver survived.

2. As sad as it is to see such a beautiful and rare car wrecked, I'd rather have that happen to a car that was being run at 8-10/10ths on a closed course, than sit in a museum like some piece of furniture.

3. GTO's go for about $10 million, give or take. Out of curiosity/ignorance, how many of the original 36 are still around?

[livi]

There I was, believing the reason you Americans did not get to play with several year models of the Porsche turbo was because of emission rules...

[artplumber]

Originally posted by Jim Cesiro
Nevada Utah whats the difference?

So it was a similar setup like that one a blst down a deserted public road?

I would imagine that Enzo was really cooking. Like that 350 in the video you never know what might happen.

There's a bunch of races run on public roads in Nevada. The video above was from the practice day IIRC. It's officially a rally and runs multiple speed classes:

http://www.silverstateclassic.com/

There's also the Virginia City Hillclimb that was mentioned in a Viper roll and driver/passenger death.

[pwd72s]

Originally posted by Noah930


3. GTO's go for about $10 million, give or take. Out of curiosity/ignorance, how many of the original 36 are still around?

Approx. Fifty-Three

[Yellowbird RS]

last june @ Mont Treblant (sp) Ferrari FXX and F1 clienti day.

[Doug E]

Ouch ... now that's a bad day in the GTO

[artplumber]

In the tech forum the actual race is confirmed as in Utah.

If that's a real GTO, one hope driver = owner, or does something really good for the owner if you know what I mean. (Has IYKWIM been invented yet?)

[Yellowbird RS]

Originally posted by artplumber
In the tech forum the actual race is confirmed as in Utah.

If that's a real GTO, one hope driver = owner, or does something really good for the owner if you know what I mean. (Has IYKWIM been invented yet?)

chasis# 3705GT
owner: Ed & Leslie Davies

[artplumber]

Originally posted by Yellowbird RS
chasis# 3705GT
owner: Ed & Leslie Davies

So was that Ed or Leslie who drove into the wall? If not, what is the stated (or implied) relationship between the driver and Ed & Leslie?