Not the usual way to die from a car accident
So we're in Russia, me and Vince are taking the race car down to the petrol station since neither of us has had the chance to have a quick blast in it. Cue the immortal words from Vince "I've driven some powerful cars in my time"...

As we come round a sharp bend on the gravel road, sideways with a look of terror on Vince's face as he wrestles with the steering wheel, the thought on my mind is not that we're going to die (it's a race car, it has a roll cage) more that we're going to have some explaining to do if he stacks it.

Somehow he regains some sort of control as we narrowly miss a black 4x4. With tinted windows. Driven by a Russian chap in dark glasses and a leather jacket. Who is not amused. And who later comes to our campsite to explain very clearly how miffed he is.

Vince was not allowed to drive again that trip.

I do have video from on-board but it's mostly various jaunty shots of the footwell and muffled swearing as I tried to brace myself against various bits of roll cage.
(fridgefreezer inserted a topical reference into his sig on, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 2:24, 1 reply)

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amazing how the russian guy magically knew what campsite you were at.
(DjArcas, Sat 14 Feb 2009, 14:41, closed)