Tree 1, Lamborghini Huracán Spyder nil in Cape Town crash

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I’ve had the privilege of driving a lambo about 11 years ago and those cars are not for the faint hearted. Despite what we see on tv the power is just way too much too handle for the average person. I’m a car and speed fanatic and back then used to be big into racing. I gave the car some “light” spirited driving and then asked my bud to let me drive the other car home as I didn’t feel comfortable driving it. The Porsche was a lot easier to drive and take almost flat out without me feeling that I’m going to lose control.
That same lambo was written off by my cousin a few months after I drove it.
Easy to see how someone would rent a car like this for a day and then lose control... especially if they’re not used to powerful cars.
 
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Smokey mcpot said:
I’ve had the privilege of driving a lambo about 11 years ago and those cars are not for the faint hearted. Despite what we see on tv the power is just way too much too handle for the average person. I’m a car and speed fanatic and back then used to be big into racing. I gave the car some “light” spirited driving and then asked my bud to let me drive the other car home as I didn’t feel comfortable driving it. The Porsche was a lot easier to drive and take almost flat out without me feeling that I’m going to lose control.
That same lambo was written off by my cousin a few months after I drove it.
Easy to see how someone would rent a car like this for a day and then lose control... especially if they’re not used to powerful cars.
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Smokey mcpot said:
I’ve had the privilege of driving a lambo about 11 years ago and those cars are not for the faint hearted. Despite what we see on tv the power is just way too much too handle for the average person. I’m a car and speed fanatic and back then used to be big into racing. I gave the car some “light” spirited driving and then asked my bud to let me drive the other car home as I didn’t feel comfortable driving it. The Porsche was a lot easier to drive and take almost flat out without me feeling that I’m going to lose control.
That same lambo was written off by my cousin a few months after I drove it.
Easy to see how someone would rent a car like this for a day and then lose control... especially if they’re not used to powerful cars.
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Modern Lambos unlike the old ones that barely had ABS back then should be more docile and easy to live with.

Problem is, much like idiots who learn to ride bikes on 1000cc Superbikes, the guy behind the wheel will inevitably put it in race or track mode without fully understanding the implications of what that means but being too ego driven to remain sensible and inevitably end up (literally in this case) in a tree.

Same way I try to explain to people the difference between a big bike and a “normal” bike is that one small slip of the throttle going a few millimetres is breaching the national speed limit. And the same remains the case here between normal very fast every day cars and super cars like this.

You can take most every very fast normal car and put your foot flat down and you’ll have enough time to consider the world without anything truly happening. In a super car if you were stupid enough to do that in any race/track mode I hope there is nothing around because you are going to get very bad results very shortly.
 
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Smokey mcpot said:
I’ve had the privilege of driving a lambo about 11 years ago and those cars are not for the faint hearted
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different strokes I guess, took a Gallardo around the track years ago and was completely underwhelmed, the only "scary" thing about it was the e-gear having some really noticeable lag between gear shifts, I'd want my money back if I was the owner

drove a Nissan GTR on the same day and it was much faster around the track
 
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NarrowBandFtw said:
different strokes I guess, took a Gallardo around the track years ago and was completely underwhelmed, the only "scary" thing about it was the e-gear having some really noticeable lag between gear shifts, I'd want my money back if I was the owner

drove a Nissan GTR on the same day and it was much faster around the track
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Driving it with no experience around a track vs no experience and trying to put your foot down on the twisted roads along the mountain are 2 different things. I didn't say I couldn't handle the car, just that it was easier to spin out the Lamborghini than it was the Porsche. The car did not belong to me and we were by no means driving 60km/h so there was no way I was going to push it flat out. Its called being responsible.
The same lambo was written off when the tail spun out by a different driver. I just don't think it's a practical road car.
 
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NarrowBandFtw said:
different strokes I guess, took a Gallardo around the track years ago and was completely underwhelmed, the only "scary" thing about it was the e-gear having some really noticeable lag between gear shifts, I'd want my money back if I was the owner

drove a Nissan GTR on the same day and it was much faster around the track
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GTR is a computer on wheels.It drives you , and not you drive the car ;)
 
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