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Caught my crash on my Go-Pro on Saturday
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Yeah, I saw this yesterday on the other site. Glad you were not hurt.
It almost looks like the rescue ski was running you over
What happened to the other guy?
Did you get a "do-over"?
It almost looks like the rescue ski was running you over
What happened to the other guy?
Did you get a "do-over"?
No I didnt get a do over LOL!!! Bad part is they didnt dock him the lap for missing the bouy and he finished ahead of me some how. I picked up 3rd place every moto all weekend except once. There was no way for me to run down the 2012 RXP-X and the 2011 Ultra 300x that was in the 1, 2 position all weekend. Great times for sure... my next race will be the surf race in Panama.
El Toro 33809
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Wow...... That's something. Where was this race? Do collisions like that happen often? It would suck to be hit by a craft like that. Any damage to your machine?
I used to race motocross and have been run over a few times..... Don't know about surviving being run over by a PWC.
I used to race motocross and have been run over a few times..... Don't know about surviving being run over by a PWC.
Rampage, sorry to hijack your thread but this is the only "crash thread" I found and didn't want to start a new one.....
Hydroplane crash in Detroit today.
Blowover...no one is injured, escaped thru safety hatch.
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Rough waters: Gold Cup driver OK after scary crash; local man out for Sunday
Mike Webster goes airborne as Mark Evans tries to avoid a collision in the Roostertail turn during a heat Saturday afternoon on the Detroit river.
Mike Webster goes airborne as Mark Evans tries to avoid a collision in the Roostertail turn during a heat Saturday afternoon on the Detroit river. (Steve Perez/Detroit News)
Detroit— It wasn't the best of days for Mike Webster and Cal Phipps on the Detroit River on Saturday.
Webster and Phipps are out of the running for the Gold Cup championship, the Super Bowl of the unlimited hydroplane series.
Webster's U-22 boat was heavily damaged as the result of a blowover accident in his first heat. The good news: Webster walked away and suffered only minor bruises.
Webster, 32, was having the ride of his life, going side-by-side with Greg Hopp and Mark Evans when he went airborne, crashing in the blowover coming out of the Yacht Club, heading into the Roostertail turn on Lap 1 of the four-lap scheduled race.
Webster's boat landed upside down. He opened the emergency escape hatch by himself, and was helped by rescue workers, put on a stretcher and transported to the infield medical center. He walked away from the center.
"I'm fine, just disappointed about the boat," Webster said. "I'm a little banged up, minor bruises and stuff, but nothing compared to what could have been. I'm very fortunate.
"I'm thanking my lucky stars right now that everything is OK."
Webster said he would have been healthy enough to compete later in the day — if his boat was in one piece.
It wasn't.
"We knew it was a heat where we potentially had a really good shot at winning, so we were really keyed up to get a good start," Webster said. "We were maybe a second late on the start, but we had the top-end speed to get around the corner and got a great first corner, got down the backstretch really well. Unfortunately, we got to the end by the Yacht Club, just got a little bit light, hit a roller, popped the right sponson up and at that point I was just along for the ride.
"My safety was of a concern, but as soon as I knew I was OK I was more disappointed with the fact the crew gave me a good boat for the weekend. It was a great race and just disappointing for how much hard work we put in."
Other drivers sounded off, too.
"It was a classic blowover," veteran driver Steve David said. "He just caught too much air and was going faster (160-170 miles-per-hour) than he had probably ever gone before. It was a hard hit."
Said Evans, who was able to elude the crash: "He got in here, a typical roostertail turn and I just steered right to get away from him. He's going to be OK. I shook his hand and he looked me in the eye (after getting strapped to the stretcher). He's shook up. It was coming out of the yacht club where he started taking off, right where I had my (blowover) in 2003."
Evans made his return to the Detroit River for the first time since his blowover accident last year. In the 2003 blowover, he suffered a broken neck, leg and ribs. He had success Saturday, winning his second heat.
Phipps, a resident of Sterling Heights, suffered a bad day, though. After failing to qualify Friday, he went out Saturday morning and put together a run of 132 mph for the minimum speed needed to compete in a heat. But he never got the U-13 boat fired up again in the heats.
"I'm so frustrated," said Dave Bartush, owner of the U-13. "I don't know how in the morning you can get it fired up and on plane, but not in the afternoon."
It didn't help that in the final heat of the day, Dave Villwock and J. Michael Kelly both jumped the gun at the start, which would have opened the door for a good run for Phipps — if he could have started the race.
Asked if he would try and compete in Sunday's heats, Bartush replied: "We can't. There's no where to go from here."
Phipps won two heats last year and finished fifth in the Gold Cup final.
david.goricki@detnews.com
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120714/SPORTS03/207140377#ixzz20e9ggt1l
Hydroplane crash in Detroit today.
Blowover...no one is injured, escaped thru safety hatch.
- Rough waters: Gold Cup driver OK after scary crash; local man out for Sunday
Mike Webster goes airborne as Mark Evans tries to avoid a collision in the Roostertail turn during a heat Saturday afternoon on the Detroit river.
Mike Webster goes airborne as Mark Evans tries to avoid a collision in the Roostertail turn during a heat Saturday afternoon on the Detroit river. (Steve Perez/Detroit News)
Detroit— It wasn't the best of days for Mike Webster and Cal Phipps on the Detroit River on Saturday.
Webster and Phipps are out of the running for the Gold Cup championship, the Super Bowl of the unlimited hydroplane series.
Webster's U-22 boat was heavily damaged as the result of a blowover accident in his first heat. The good news: Webster walked away and suffered only minor bruises.
Webster, 32, was having the ride of his life, going side-by-side with Greg Hopp and Mark Evans when he went airborne, crashing in the blowover coming out of the Yacht Club, heading into the Roostertail turn on Lap 1 of the four-lap scheduled race.
Webster's boat landed upside down. He opened the emergency escape hatch by himself, and was helped by rescue workers, put on a stretcher and transported to the infield medical center. He walked away from the center.
"I'm fine, just disappointed about the boat," Webster said. "I'm a little banged up, minor bruises and stuff, but nothing compared to what could have been. I'm very fortunate.
"I'm thanking my lucky stars right now that everything is OK."
Webster said he would have been healthy enough to compete later in the day — if his boat was in one piece.
It wasn't.
"We knew it was a heat where we potentially had a really good shot at winning, so we were really keyed up to get a good start," Webster said. "We were maybe a second late on the start, but we had the top-end speed to get around the corner and got a great first corner, got down the backstretch really well. Unfortunately, we got to the end by the Yacht Club, just got a little bit light, hit a roller, popped the right sponson up and at that point I was just along for the ride.
"My safety was of a concern, but as soon as I knew I was OK I was more disappointed with the fact the crew gave me a good boat for the weekend. It was a great race and just disappointing for how much hard work we put in."
Other drivers sounded off, too.
"It was a classic blowover," veteran driver Steve David said. "He just caught too much air and was going faster (160-170 miles-per-hour) than he had probably ever gone before. It was a hard hit."
Said Evans, who was able to elude the crash: "He got in here, a typical roostertail turn and I just steered right to get away from him. He's going to be OK. I shook his hand and he looked me in the eye (after getting strapped to the stretcher). He's shook up. It was coming out of the yacht club where he started taking off, right where I had my (blowover) in 2003."
Evans made his return to the Detroit River for the first time since his blowover accident last year. In the 2003 blowover, he suffered a broken neck, leg and ribs. He had success Saturday, winning his second heat.
Phipps, a resident of Sterling Heights, suffered a bad day, though. After failing to qualify Friday, he went out Saturday morning and put together a run of 132 mph for the minimum speed needed to compete in a heat. But he never got the U-13 boat fired up again in the heats.
"I'm so frustrated," said Dave Bartush, owner of the U-13. "I don't know how in the morning you can get it fired up and on plane, but not in the afternoon."
It didn't help that in the final heat of the day, Dave Villwock and J. Michael Kelly both jumped the gun at the start, which would have opened the door for a good run for Phipps — if he could have started the race.
Asked if he would try and compete in Sunday's heats, Bartush replied: "We can't. There's no where to go from here."
Phipps won two heats last year and finished fifth in the Gold Cup final.
david.goricki@detnews.com
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120714/SPORTS03/207140377#ixzz20e9ggt1l
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ocod
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.............thanks for understanding.
your race cam videos are awesome.
See ya next time I'm down...
.....thanks for understanding.your race cam videos are awesome.
See ya next time I'm down...
