One man's ode to his Seven..

[horizenjob]

 

I liked this vid on youtube. He has a good number of videos,

but this one is different. "Death of a Nail"

 

Death of a Nail, Jackel

 

 

[slngsht]

I remember reading about the accident at the end. If I'm not mistaken, he was on a cooldown lap, and hit some coolant on the track

[horizenjob]

You can see the coolant, just before he hits it. In another view from

one of his other videos, you see him climbing out of the car and then

some guy in a car three times his size t-bones him. He's lucky to be

alive. He had an accident, but moments later things went his way when

they could have got much worse.

 

This happened at Spa, so you can find that looking thru his list.

 

I liked this video a lot...

 

 

 

[Kitcat]

Armco, Armco, Armco. Just what I hate in a track. Plus it's very narrow so there's no where to run/hide.

 

With cars like ours, where the inherent safety margin is small, a way to counteract that is to drive on newer tracks which been designed to be safe (large run-offs, minimal Armco, wide track with lots of passing room). The older tracks, like Spa, look like death traps to me.

[Al N.]

I've corresponded with Richard (the Jackal) before....he's actually sold the Duranail (I think to an overseas person who sometimes pops in on this forum), but I have so much respect for how well put together that car was....he really did sweat every little detail building it up and rebuilding it.

[horizenjob]

 

He put a lot of effort into that video for his car. He obviously had a lot of adventures in it.

 

Also there was some honesty to it. Some of these videos you only see other cars being

passed. I liked the moment here where you see smoke pouring out the rear of the car,

I am guessing he braked a little late there. And the occasional off road excursion.

 

It's funny how you feel bonded to a car after some adventures... This shows that feeling

well.