Boy does this look familiar

[XfireZ51]

http://vettetube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=75d343320b6a5fd16ce5

Wonder if he had GY Supercar F1s?

[XfireZ51]

Or here:

http://vettetube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=a2150ba2210ba1b51d24

[sammy]

ouch .thats got to hurt one pride as well as pocket book . thats why i never go to the strip with street tires ,our cars have just too much power , to mess with street tires at the strip .jmho dom thanx for the video .you allways come up with some jewels

[XfireZ51]

ouch .thats got to hurt one pride as well as pocket book ...

It sure did!

[XfireZ51]

ouch .thats got to hurt one pride as well as pocket book . thats why i never go to the strip with street tires ,our cars have just too much power , to mess with street tires at the strip .jmho dom thanx for the video .you allways come up with some jewels

I'm getting ready to put Nitto Invos on Z06 wheels for #458.

[mike100]

I enjoy the C4 with it's classic weight distribution dynamic for sure. I have a c6 and it's great when you find the line on a road course, but get loose on the street and it ***-arounds very quickly.

[XfireZ51]

Boy the pattern of these crashes are eerily similar. Again, here.

http://www.dpccars.com/car-videos-08/09-24-08page-Corvette-Z06-crashes-at-the-drag-strip.htm

[tomtom72]

I don't want to throw rocks at a tire company....but this is testing the limits of coincidence, no?

What kind of tires do these guys have in common, if any?
I'm not fluent in NHRA rules, so this maybe a stupid Q. If you run in stock class, what are the rules for tires?
Oh, I just thought of another dumb Q. Were all those crashes from tire issues or was there a rear end failure involved?

All of that was depressing to watch!

[FU]

Look's like it could be broken axle syndrome , due to wheel hop. Very common with the C6's. Passenger side axle breaks and the car hook's right. Driver thinks he can drive through it....suprise.

Never lift has it's complications.

[XfireZ51]

I don't want to throw rocks at a tire company....but this is testing the limits of coincidence, no?

What kind of tires do these guys have in common, if any?
I'm not fluent in NHRA rules, so this maybe a stupid Q. If you run in stock class, what are the rules for tires?
Oh, I just thought of another dumb Q. Were all those crashes from tire issues or was there a rear end failure involved?

All of that was depressing to watch!

Tom,

All C6s come with the GY Supercar F1 EMT. That's the tire I had on my car and the behavior felt eerily similar. Second gear shift about halfway down the track, tail waggle first left then headed for the opposite side of the track and into the guardrail. Now we have no way of knowing what tire, if it was a tire or half shaft or whatever. Just brought back ugly memories. I had taken the car down the track a number of times with those tires on previous track visits. Each time, the 1-2 shift acted as I expected with the tires actually hooking better than the previous ones but even if they slipped, the car tracked straight with feathering the gas until they would hook again. This time the car began crabbing or pushing left.
It was not particularly warm but other cars had gone down the track with no incident including C6Zs.

[todesengel]

I can dig up videos of lot's of cars behaving the same way on the dragstrip. Matter of fact there was a mustang at gateway 2 years ago that did the exact same thing.

I would be hesitant to claim defect on any material item, almost every crash I have seen at the track can be boiled down to driver error. When one has an expectation for the car to handle exactly the same way, and becomes complacent, bad things can happen.

It's racing, and wrecking a car does not make one a bad driver, just shows that perhaps they made a bad decision in compensating for a situation that presented itself.

High Power cars, street tires = bad combo imho.

I wouldn't let it haunt me Dom, just chaulk it up to an expensive lesson. It could happen to anyone of us when we launch down a track. A wreck doesn't define you, or your driving abilities. You buck the tiger long enough eventually you miss the tail.

[XfireZ51]

Rob,

Thanks for the thoughts. I guess
"sometimes you're the Louisville slugger,
sometimes you're the ball..."

[todesengel]

Rob,

Thanks for the thoughts. I guess
"sometimes you're the Louisville slugger,
sometimes you're the ball..."

Dom,
That is life for sure.

Anyone who would say anything other will have some serious crow to eat when it is their time.

When I was 17 I had a highly built 76 trans am. Flat out mean car that I thought I had complete control over. Won many a races with it, and thought I had it down to a science. Once day I stopped on a two lane road in front of some people to show off a launch, the next thing I remember was I was trying to drive out of the ditch. Busted up my quarter panel, destroyed one of my wheels, and seriously impacted my ego lol. To this day I still do not know exactly what happened, but it was driver defect, not mechanical. I drove the car another year after that with a wheel replacement, and body work, so it wasn't mechanical for sure.

I haven't wrecked another one to this day, and I am much more in tune with how my car is reacting when I am pushing it. It is amazing that how even to this day how quickly the cars feedback processes when I am into it.

I consider myself a good driver, not the best, but good. Do I think it could happen again, absolutely, am I more in tune with what the car is telling me when I drive now, you betcha. Sometimes lifes humbling moments turn out to be the best instructors.

[GOLDCYLON]

Dom ditch the Z06 wheels im beginning to wonder

[XfireZ51]

GC,

I understand why you say that BUT, the BR is going to look awesome with the silver split spokes and 2. I won't be using the GY F1 EMTs. I believe what happened was a combination of cold tires, not well prepped track and driver error. Not sure when I'd run at track again but it would need to be on DRs.

[Paul Workman]

Wow...:jawdrop: Same tires in all case? who knows. But, something ugly is going on there, "fer sher". One can't help but see the similarity of what happened to you and what happened in those videos. Noticed too how it seemed to occur at about the same distance down the track, no? And too, those wrecks seemed not to be as far down the track as yours was, but that could be just camera angle?

Well, we don't need a repeat for any of us. So, I recon I'll get another set of wheels from "someone" and mount them when I go racing UNLESS I can find a tire that works good in the twisties AND the drag strip. (I'm sorta intrigued by the Nitto 555s on the front and the 05 DRs in back. But, I wonder about using a DR in the twisties? I guess that's why there's more than one golf club in the bag, huh?)

P.

[Alberta_ZR1]

Or here:

http://vettetube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=a2150ba2210ba1b51d24


Or here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGeZ-u1JWNw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGeZ-u1JWNw)