Baja 1000 crash...

[Original_MudButt]

These guys are friends of mine. This happened in the first 5 miles of the race. Both driver and co-driver are banged up but okay.... Check out the thief in the yellow hoodie....

Welcome to Baja.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSnfy6oXS9g

 

[Original_MudButt]

Here is a video of the other half of the race team. This happened later in the race, further down. Not a good weekend.

The fuel man is still in the hospital with burns over 30% of his body....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4PMx5Ew3xg

 

[GSequoia]

Is that Julio's team? I read on Facebook that their car got totaled.

Did yellow hoody really steal that light bar or just get it out of the roadway? He seemed to have gone back to the car at the end.

 

[Original_MudButt]

Brad Etter... Never saw the lightbar again... At about 48 seconds you can see him and his buddy loading it into the trunk of a car.

 

[GSequoia]

Brad Etter... He never saw the lightbar again...

Wonderful. Be interesting to see if anybody got footage of where he put it (and whether he stole it or somebody made off with it afterward).

 

[Original_MudButt]

Meh, Kind of moot after watching his second car burn to the ground....

At the end of the day, it's all just money. Who cares about the car, it's the people that matter...

I haven't got a name yet on the fuel handler, but I hope he pulls through alright...

 

[GSequoia]

At about 48 seconds you can see him and his buddy loading it into the trunk of a car.

I somehow missed that on the first read-through. Ballsy of him to stick around.

Meh, Kind of moot after watching his second car burn to the ground....

At the end of the day, it's all just money. Who cares about the car, it's the people that matter...

I haven't got a name yet on the fuel handler, but I hope he pulls through alright...

Don't know about the burn-up... Did fuel ignite during a pit stop?

 

[Original_MudButt]

Don't know about the burn-up... Did fuel ignite during a pit stop?

Yes.

I don't have many details yet.

 

[Vanimal]

Is that Julio's team? I read on Facebook that their car got totaled.
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Andrew's car was a white class 10 car, a 2.4L chevy ecotec motor so thats definitely not it. Julio was supposed to be the navigator..... hopefully they're ok.

EDIT:
just talked to Julio, their teamates were driving at the time, and got rear ended after they rear ended a quad. nobody got hurt thankfully.

 

[Original_MudButt]

Andrew's car was a white class 10 car, a 2.4L chevy ecotec motor .

It's been a while since I've raced class ten... When did they start allowing engines that big? I thought 1650 was the limit...

 

[Vanimal]

It's been a while since I've raced class ten... When did they start allowing engines that big? I thought 1650 was the limit...

no clue, i know nothing about racing other than what i've heard from those guys. i do know 100% that it is a direct injected ecotec engine and it is a class 10 car. thats about it. maybe it's smaller than 2.4, perhaps 2.0L.

 

[ehall]

it looks like the lightbar was part of the debris in the track that caused the first wreck

 

[bigalpha]

it looks like the lightbar was part of the debris in the track that caused the first wreck

Good catch.

 

[Lowrange2]

That light bar clearly comes off the car mid flip. You guys must be watching on a flip phone.

 

[bigalpha]

That light bar clearly comes off the car mid flip. You guys must be watching on a flip phone.

Good catch.

 

[johnnyc]

I was down at BFG Pit 3 at Bay of LA. We heard on the radio that there was an accident involving a chase vehicle resulting in two fatalities, and maybe a third. Anyone hear about this?

 

[Boostwerks.com]

holy crap. Talk about a bad day.

It blows that none of the hundreds of bystanders had the balls to confront that guy either.

 

[GSequoia]

holy crap. Talk about a bad day.

It blows that none of the hundreds of bystanders had the balls to confront that guy either.

With as cool and collected as he did it I'm sure most poeple though he was supposed to be doing that.

 

[xcm]

WATCH THOSE SHOULDERS! Apparently that class 7 chase truck lost a wheel off the side of the road, rolling and killing one of its occupants, and severly injuring another.

Chasing aint a safe family activity.....

 

[xcm]

Also, if you look closely, yellow sweatshirt guy damn near got NAILED trying to warn the car about rock.

If he hadnt hit that rock, it wouldve most likely been a fatality.

In other news, BJ baldwin hit a dog at RM1...