Hmm.... am I mature? Lets see, I've completed the CAMS OLT, take my business to the race track and am looking into getting into PROPER track racing. hmm... I don't think I'm mature now.
If I've hurt your feelings, I'm sorry. He failed to THINK before he got on the gas. Yes I've had accidents, but they were not race related. If I can think, I'm sure others can too because God blessed them with a brain. If this guy needed to give his ego a massage, it's called the race track.
Merli didn't post this thread to generate sympathy, nor his other posts to other people smashing their cars. They are intended to make steet racers THINK.
And why should I shed tears? Am I not right that incidents like this drive insurance premiums up? Being a GTR owner, and I'm sure other GTR owners will agree that it's not cheap, and we wouldn't like our premiums to go up cause of others who can't hold their wads long enough.
My days of street racing were over long ago. I KNOW that others have labled me a d*ckhead, loser... whatever! If I killed myself I would expect that others will label me a w@nker too, and I always knew that death is the ultimate price to pay for street racing.
But I am MATURE now, and as a MATURE driver, I shall spread the word not to race on the street like any other MATURE driver. Even in my street racing days I knew the limit, and never dared to venture beyond that point. This kid is a clear example of not knowing the limit and paying the price. His ego got the better of him.
There is a lesson to be learned in races like this. And it's not "I feel sorry for him cause he died". It's something else and I would like others to THINK about what the lesson is, therefore I will not repeat what others have said a billion times before.