Crazy crash at Rolex Road America race

[Mook]

woah

During the weekend's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car race at Road America, Günter Shaldach radioed his crew to report what he called "a brake issue." Shortly after that, as Shaldach's CoolTV Chevrolet Camaro was hurtling toward turn one behind Joe Foster's Florida.com Mazda RX-8, he locked up at full tilt, and plowed into the Mazda. Then it got really ugly. Shaldach continued straight through the gravel trap and tire barriers, then flew over the course fence into the outside world.

Fellow team driver Oliver Gavin later said Shaldach had pushed the brake pedal and it went to the floor, then everything simply locked up. The airborne red blur in the pic above is Shaldach's leaping Camaro, the trail of dust on the right is the Mazda. Thankfully, Shaldach got out of the car and walked back up to the track on his own.

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[CrunkMaro]

thank god for roll cages. holy hell.

 

[CrunkMaro]

fyi its kinda cool that posting doesn't interrupt the video. sry bout the double post though

 

[Bru]

Those camera men are luckier than the driver

 

[Epi]

Damn!! there is a hell of steep drop off on the other side of that too.

 

[Primalzer]

Yeah there are a couple of high parts of the track, turn 1 and turn 6 are I believe the highest. Turn 1 does drop off pretty steep outside of the tire barrier going down into the parking area. Around the corner from the crash, near Porsche park is the best grill stand at the course.....mmmmm cheesy bread and brats :drool:

 

[Turk]

Typical F-body brakes.

 

[bikrboy128]

mustve been using toyota parts.

 

[CrunkMaro]

Typical F-body brakes.

1) its not an fbody
2) SS have brembo brakes.

 

[Vogz]

wow, every time I hauled ass down the front straight at RA on my bike I though about what would happen if I lost my brakes....lol

 

[Shadow99]

Crazy they walk away from that shit.

 

[GOON]

the front straight is long, i wonder what speed he was at when he realized he was f**ked.

 

[Dan00Hawk]

The handful of times I've been on that track, I've never been willing to really go too hard on my brakes into turn 1 or 5. That's like my nightmare coming true! Sheesh!