[s-cars] Just a sobering experiece

[Robert Myers]

Phew!  Close call.  I'm glad all you need is a new tire and change of 
underwear.

At 10:27 PM 2/24/2004 +0100, Richard Tanimura wrote:

>I almost bought it today. I was on the Autobahn doing 230 kph (143 mph)
>playing tag with some new Mercedes when I noticed some strong vibrations on
>the left side. It was so bad, I couldn't drive further. When I checked my
>car, I noticed that my rear left tire had delaminated. There was a huge
>chunk of rubber that had been thrown off and was missing and a lot of the
>steel radial wires were worn through.
>
>The tire guy told me angels were watching over me. If I had worn through
>another ply, the tire would have blown. I would probably have hit the brakes
>instinctively and gone into trailing throttle oversteer. I would have spun
>badly and they would have had to scrape me off the landscape.
>
>So a word to the wise, we all love speed but remember it comes with a risk.
>
>Rich

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Bob
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