poor dennis...

Frosty_SPL · Post by **Frosty_SPL** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:57 pm

Glad you are ok!

GreekDrifter · Post by **GreekDrifter** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:03 pm

If you look close, you can see the cone wadded up in front of the tire. It dosent look like its stuck on anything in particular. You can see tire smoke. The wheel is locked up and I was not hitting the brakes. I believe I was trying to transition at this point and the front end was going nuts.

Unbelievable.

DrifterMama · Post by **DrifterMama** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:05 pm

this was just posted on drifting.com by "NopiTech"

It is unfortunate what happened to Dennis. He did everything in his power to correct the problem but had no control. From what I saw in a few pics, there was a cone under the car, but, it looks like he had a broken tie rod or end. The right wheel was turned, the left wheel was straight.

His entry speeds were in the mid 50's all weekend. I would say that he was well above 40mph when he had impact with the K-rail.

Good thing is Dennis is ok, and looks like he has a few options out there on a new ride or building a new one to finish the season.

Good Luck to Dennis.

Thanks to everyone who came out and ran this past weekend. Congrats to Rob from XAT and Dan from Batlground/Maxxis. You guys were awesome in the finals.

Rhoad Racing · Post by **Rhoad Racing** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:46 pm

more pics from the event:
http://www.driftbasic.com/forums/viewto ... =1456#1456

matts13 · Post by **matts13** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:51 pm

yeah the tie rod was sheared by force. a wall was not before.

Zach · Post by **Zach** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:22 am

matts13 wrote:yeah the tie rod was sheared by force. a wall was not before.

Yeah thats a load of freakin bs, look at the FOERST two pictures where the cone is under the left front. The alignment is obviously pretty dead on and not as if a tie-rod had been broken or bent. This is getting ridiculous. they should just say hey, we messed up we got the wrong size k-rails and set up an entirely retarded unsafe course, our bad we're going to start listening now; they just need to get over a little thing called pride.

darkducati · Post by **darkducati** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:07 am

Late to the party as usual. Glad Dennis is okay. That was one hell of a shunt.

Generz · Post by **Generz** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:20 pm

n/m. ANGER.

matts13 · Post by **matts13** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:23 pm

wow this thread has over 1000 views already.

Rhoad Racing · Post by **Rhoad Racing** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:37 pm

matts13 wrote:wow this thread has over 1000 views already.

Dennis is loved by many.

GreekDrifter · Post by **GreekDrifter** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:47 pm

If I could get 20k for crashing my car at each event, I would do it....just like the monster truck guys......I will admit, its alot more exciting to see a crash than a sucessfull run, ask a NASCAR fan.

the ride wasn't fun though..

Post by **andysapp** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:56 pm

Brady PLEASE post those pictures on Drifting.com.

That tie-rod was definitely broken... AFTER THE WHOLE FRONT SUSPENSION WAS OBLITERATED BY A FULL-FORCE IMPACT WITH A K-RAIL. Trying to blame that on a broken tie-rod is a cop-out. It's time to take some responsibility.

That k-rail should NEVER go flying like that.
I'm sorry... but that is just UNACCEPTABLE.

GreekDrifter · Post by **GreekDrifter** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:57 pm

andysapp wrote:Brady PLEASE post those pictures on Drifting.com.

Is this killing your bandwidth?

bradystrib · Post by **bradystrib** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:14 pm

GreekDrifter wrote:
andysapp wrote:Brady PLEASE post those pictures on Drifting.com.

Is this killing your bandwidth?

6000 hits from the time i posted the pictures till 3 am last night. Haven't checked since then. . .

Anyways, i'm about to post of drifting.com

GreekDrifter · Post by **GreekDrifter** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:20 pm

bradystrib wrote:
GreekDrifter wrote:
andysapp wrote:Brady PLEASE post those pictures on Drifting.com.

Is this killing your bandwidth?
6000 hits from the time i posted the pictures till 3 am last night. Haven't checked since then. . .

Anyways, i'm about to post of drifting.com

Remember, its the Wanli/S3 Nissan 240sx driven by Dennis George, the GreekDrifter, haha