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A few bits of info relevant to this:
You can get very expensive one time track insurance for shunts. Octane Magazine paid for it during this test.
There is NO mechanical insurance written for these situations.
Most of what has been written has been by motoring journalists. Might they have a bias? The documents from the court case, which David Piper won overwhelmingly, are online. I have read that it includes written documentation that the journalist involved did not tell the truth in regards to aspects of this situation. I do NOT know the specifics of this but would like to read the entire thing so that I am not simply passing on rumors or ?? I don't like slamming an innocent person.. either way. I don't know either of these guys but David Piper has a very long reputation and I have never heard anyone speak badly of him. Perhaps we shall someday see something written giving Mr. Piper's side of the story. Meanwhile, I am not holding my breath. I suspect that the outcome of the case is enough for him. I have been on both sides of comparatively small situations like this. Thank God they all involved my cars and I managed to fix them myself. From my former life where I actually DID something.. I know only too well that when bad things happen and people feel pressured, the first thing that goes out the window is an analytical analysis of what happened in favor of "It wasn't MY fault!" This could be rephrased in the context of "You don't know someone until you see the person in a very difficult situation. Often times you discover a different person."... as pwd72s can verify.]
I don't know how a driver can analyze the experience of a 917K vs a 512M without wringing both of them out. It is either a story about a meaningless cruise about on a race track or how these two racing monsters actually compare.
This makes what to me is an obvious and interesting case for putting lots of minicams inside the cockpit to document exactly what the journo is doing with someone else's car. Or not. [Am I the only one who remembers Damon Hill frantically resetting the rev counter Tattle-tale after he over revved a 250 GTO at Goodwood a few years ago?]
I wonder if a liability umbrella policy would have covered the journo?
Regardless. A shame.
JR
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