So, when is the full story, UNGN?
I'll make a video of the crash at some point. but basically the car was running too good and the course I was running on I didn't have memorized and I came up on the only corner (blind left, over a hill) on the course where the left turn sign was at the corner and not 100 feet before the corner.
I tried to make the 90 mph turn @ 117 mph and the car was under steering off the road, so I gave it gas to make the car turn... and it worked and the car magically went back on the road, with a 4 mile straight away ahead... but the rear wheel wells were now full of wet grass (it had rained in the morning) so the back tires kept spinning and the car kept rotating. When I hit full opposite lock on the wheel, I locked the brakes down, but we still nosed into the hillside @ over 100 mph, then launched about 40 feet into the air. The launch is what broke my back, because as the car was heading towards space, I remember thinking "uggh, I think my back is broken".
The first landing impact was on the rear bumper, so it did a forward somersault in the air. It did a couple more end over ends, then rolled 4-6 times.
All of the safety equipment did its job and if anything that car was built too solid and transmitted the impact shock to my back. If the seat brackets had bent a little, it might have reduce the G loading on my back just enough that a vertebrae would have just cracked and not shattered. My son's just cracked, and likely so would mine if I was still 20.
Modern Race cars fly apart for a reason. I nosed into a 10 ft high hillside @ 100 mph and the radiator still holds water. maybe the front end was a little too solid.
