Racing Wrecks

A Ferrari F430 Spyder fell from the top level of a delivery truck at Ernie Boch’s luxury car dealership outside of Boston. The only funny part? Watching the windshield wipers running in the video.

Watch the video — then cue the “Yeah, that’ll buff right out” comments in 5,4,3,2…

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(while not a “racing wreck”, this is still noteworthy of mention here)

Only ten days ago Jonny Greaves jumped his closed-course race truck from one dirt ramp to another — those ramps being separated by close to 300 feet. Greaves ended up going 301 feet, and set the record for the longest ever jump in a 2WD truck. It’s even more fun to watch than to read about, if only because his engine makes his Toyota sound like it’s powered by demons and banshees.

Source: Autoblog

Oh yeah, no wreck to speak of here… just some awesome footage of a truck that can flyyyyyyyyyy!

Travis Pastrana spent New Year’s Eve preparing to drive his Red Bull Subaru WRX STI off of a ramp, over 250-or-so feet of water, and onto another ramp floating on a barge. In earlier practices for the jump, at first he didn’t stick the landing, then he skipped the landing part entirely. The New Year’s event would be for keeps, though.

[Source: Autoblog via ESPN via YouTube]

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OK, we know this isn’t a wreck, but is an example of some pretty amazing driving by this semi driver somewhere in Europe.

And on another note, we apologize for the lack of postings here. We are going to try to update a lot more frequently. Thanks for visiting.

There were two Lexus LF-As entered into last week’s Nurburgring 24 Hour race prepared by the Gazoo Racing Team. This is what happened to one of them, car #15, about two hours from the end of the enduro.

Information courtesy of Autoblog.

Here’s a Lamborghini Diablo crash caught on video.

The damage done to the truck looks to be light, but the damage to the front of the Diablo and more importantly, to the driver’s ego, is gonna be a whole lot more expensive and time consuming to fix. Is it any surprise this overly confident tool leaves the scene so quick?

Information is courtesy of Jalopnik.

The one-of-a-kind exhibition drag-racing “Cool Bus,” built by Ken Nelson, crashed at last month’s O’Reilly Thunder Jam. Luckily, Ken was uninjured. Let’s take a closer look at the “Cool Bus” and video of the crash… there’s two more videos after the jump.

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How much abuse will the engine in a Nissan GT-R take? Not a 150 shot of NOS on top of 600 wheel HP, that’s for sure.

Video and information courtesy of Jalopnik.