Diego Jota

[monmouth]

Awful news - I can't imagine what his new wife, kids and family are feeling. Far too young.

I don't want to be 'that guy', but I'm interested what the accident report will say in terms of speeds. I've had a blowout once, doing about 72-73mph or so on the M4 (it was pitch black, on my way to the airport at 3am). Scary as hell, but normally pretty controllable if you're a confident driver.

Of course, shit can happen at any speeds...but it did look rather catastrophic.

I had one on the M5 at 70 and it was easy to bring the car to a controlled halt, if a bit of a shock. That said, I wasn't driving a loony car that is designed to 'lose' the back end as 'sport'. I would imagine that would require a whole heap more driving skill than I possess. Personally I wouldn't allow those cars on public roads, or M3s and such shite. Track only. That's not to say Jota did anything wrong or his death was his own fault or anything like that, just if you drive those cars you are adding risk when things go wrong and the temptation to go too fast, so, as Swerve said, you need to be trained up for it.

 

[airedale]

Some years ago, down the pub, this bloke who had a used car business told us about a business in the London area who used to like accessing these supercars with low mileages. He said it wasn’t unusual for them to buy from people who’d bought one (good idea at the time), taken it out on the road, shat themselves and got rid.