Underground Racing Twin Turbo Gallardo Crashes At 200+MPH Texas Mile

[J. Fast]

That really sucks. Those UR cars are soo insane, there's a few videos of the guy locking up the brakes at the end of the track and going sideways. I'll try to find them...

Edit here...

Looks to me like the crosswind pulled that Lambo off the track. A couple of questions I'm asking myself are, why would track officials allow a pass with high crosswinds like that? 2nd, who deploys a parachute with a 40 knot crosswind going over 250 miles an hour? Last, why aren't cars trapping more than 200+ mph not required to have CF brakes or anything that wont melt or come apart when braking at 250mph speeds?

Good to hear the driver walked away. I suspect after reviewing all the video's the driver would recognize he should have coased and scrubbed some speed first. With a crash like this I'd suspect the Texas Mile rules will change and require vehicles trapping more than 200+ mph to have CF brakes and hopefully be more mindful of crosswinds. It's too bad the lambo had brakes equipped to melt, if he had used them I'd suspect that car wouldn't be scrap metal. It's sad to see a $500,000 lambo get wasted like that.

[Lugnut]

Just did another search and found this link .. Pretty much supports exactly what J.Fast said ..

http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1...hes-at-200-mph

[cjbyron]

Looks to me like the crosswind pulled that Lambo off the track. A couple of questions I'm asking myself are, why would track officials allow a pass with high crosswinds like that? 2nd, who deploys a parachute with a 40 knot crosswind going over 250 miles an hour? Last, why aren't cars trapping more than 200+ mph not required to have CF brakes or anything that wont melt or come apart when braking at 250mph speeds?

Good to hear the driver walked away. I suspect after reviewing all the video's the driver would recognize he should have coased and scrubbed some speed first. With a crash like this I'd suspect the Texas Mile rules will change and require vehicles trapping more than 200+ mph to have CF brakes and hopefully be more mindful of crosswinds. It's too bad the lambo had brakes equipped to melt, if he had used them I'd suspect that car wouldn't be scrap metal. It's sad to see a $500,000 lambo get wasted like that.

The record holder (John Holt @250.1) car - tuned by John Reed of Portland Oregon. He has some other videos on his website also. http://www.johnreedracing.com/video.html

[JeremyG]

Looks to me like a dumb-ass driver with no training or skills and way too much money. "Damn, I was a-gonna get me a 25 thousand dollar transmission if I broke two fitty".

[blackrob]

Ehh, it'll buff out. LOL

[IPD]

...looks like the car was mad about matt M's stealth putting a smackdown on it once upon a time, and killed itself out of shame.