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A lame kick off, but a kick off nonetheless.

Forget this crazy spectator caper- next time I attend a rally i'm going to be sticking somewhere safe, like the nav seat!

The first ditch is the hole I think I tripped in on my way to a specatator point at the Coffs Coast rally.

The second is the dent I made on landing :ph34r:

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The result:

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- One fractured elbow

- One broken camera

- Many bruised bits

- One VERY bruised ego

Funnily enough I went 2 days without realising the damage that had been done, putting a new perspective on the 6-hour drive back home- no wonder changing gears hurt so bloody much!

So any advances on a fracture?

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Ouch Kel!!!

Hope your all good!

Oh....you werent....drunk...were you? hehe

Actually, funny story on injuring myself....

last drift day at Oran Park...I had put sun cream on...my hands were a bit slippery, as I was coming around the last corner on towards the bridge, I was fish tailing - left to right to left and next thing my hand slipped off and hit myself right in the nads.....yeah didnt feel too good! haha

I was less injured putting the r32 into a wall at wakefield when i understeered off at the kink at around 200km/h.

It hurt my ego though...and i had a decent headache for a day or so

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YOUCH! I'm guessing there was some hip pocket hurt involved too :ph34r:

At least you were ok

Ouch Kel!!!

Hope your all good!

Oh....you werent....drunk...were you? hehe

Actually, funny story on injuring myself....

last drift day at Oran Park...I had put sun cream on...my hands were a bit slippery, as I was coming around the last corner on towards the bridge, I was fish tailing - left to right to left and next thing my hand slipped off and hit myself right in the nads.....yeah didnt feel too good! haha

Promise I'm not laughing Chris....

.... ok I am :ph34r:

i was sober as unfortunately- my best non drunk/drunk stack ever (certain poker machine incidents included)

probably would have come off much better had there been alcohol involved to soften the body more for the fall!

I reckon it owed me up around 50k already so i was never going to make my money back on it. I've already parted out over 12k (so roughly what it'd sell for if i was lucky) which has covered the purchase of a new track only s13 and some new semis.

quick edit: I'm actually glad i crashed rather than punching myself in the balls. Thanks for that image chris....

Edited by BHDave

meh i'll add my little bit in....

Second run of the night at WSID, 8000rpm clutch dump and well the clutch dumped and the flywheel shot off into the crowd in a thousand million pieces with a $20k repair bill.

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That is just about THE s15 as far as im concerned.

Funky, ok maybe 2 hours tops, I had also already done the back wheel arches and where the seat would go with the heat gun. Im painting the cabin and boot the same color as the rest of the car over xmas.

Chris: That's hilarious mate! :P

I sympathise with the elbow Kel. Mine wasn't motorsport as such, but I was on a quad bike so I reckon it counts :P

I managed to flip a quad bike at around 50-60km's in Greece. I ended up with a fractured elbow, which I didn't find out about until two weeks later, was wondering why I couldn't move my arm past 45 degrees :P

And my back was a litte sore...and my leg...and my ankle...and my foot.

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Chris: That's hilarious mate! :P

I sympathise with the elbow Kel. Mine wasn't motorsport as such, but I was on a quad bike so I reckon it counts :P

I managed to flip a quad bike at around 50-60km's in Greece. I ended up with a fractured elbow, which I didn't find out about until two weeks later, was wondering why I couldn't move my arm past 45 degrees :P

And my back was a litte sore...and my leg...and my ankle...and my foot.

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OUCH! You get top of the leaderboard with that effort!

backed the GTR into the wall at turn 10 EC. pretty rapid through there. somewhere in 4th gear. thought I could go just that little bit quicker (last lap of the session) and thought I could turn in from out just a little bit wider. turns out a torana had blown up that lap and he had stayed out wide.... precisely where i placed the car and turned in. only to find myself facing backwards... :P

that's about if for good ones. actually I did spin off turning onto the back straight at wakefield. I was driving my mates alfa group NC touring car, at an historic meet. and at wakefield it's a bloody big field, with plenty o' mustang, ford GT etc. and they just swallow you up. anyway coming onto the backstraight, big slide, thought yeah no problem, got this one under control. I was wrong. spun into the infield and went so far it was probably closer to just rejoin the trac at the front straight and collect an awesome lap time!

fell down stairs. nightclub in roppongi, tokyo. chick I was with asked me to go outside to check out the snowfall (quite unusual to see decent snow in the middle of tokyo) at 5am after a VERY solid night drinking. started off at TGI fridays drinking long island ice teas (maybe half a dozen of them), then dollar bar for some beers, then onto the club for another 20 beers.

coming back down the stairs they were very wet and slippery from all the snow and ice that had been trodden in. the stairs are really steep, and really short (for small japanese feet) i lost my footing and started sliding, fell onto my back and slid a long way down, go to the bottom and landed on my feet and thought, ripper, no damage done. a day later I woke up feeling like I had been subjected to a sack beating. looked in the mirror and realised why. my back, arse, legs and arms were covered in some nasty brusies. this pic was taken about 3 days later so you can imagine what it had been like!

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fell down stairs. nightclub in roppongi. chick I was with asked me to go outside to check out the snowfall (quite unusual to see decent snow in the middle of tokyo) at 5am after a VERY solid night drinking. started off at TGI fridays drinking long island ice teas (maybe half a dozen of them), then dollar bar for some beers, then onto the club for another 20 beers.

coming back down the stairs they were very wet and slippery from all the snow and ice that had been trodden in. the stairs are really steep, and really short (for small japanese feet) i lost my footing and started sliding, fell onto my back and slid a long way down, go to the bottom and landed on my feet and thought, ripper, no damage done. a day later I woke up feeling like I had been subjected to a sack beating. looked in the mirror and realised why. my back, arse, legs and arms were covered in some nasty brusies. this pic was taken about 3 days later so you can imagine what it had been like!

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your problem is you werent drunk enough Richard :)

Rally Tas 2007, rubber exhaust hanger melted coming out of savage (anyone who remembers the day will note it was like 40 degrees), burnt my hand trying to lift muffler into place on side of road, had a welt about 2 inches in diameter.

Targa this year benny and I had to stop for a crashed car on South Riana, big chunk of brake rotor on the racing line. Tried to kick it out of the way and it didn't move, so silly me reacted by picking it up, burnt my thumb and two fingers, it was that hot it actually cauterized and went hard.

Not to self don't touch nothing but pace notes!

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