1999 Question of the Week:
What is the worst accident your Associated vehicle ever survived?
I slammed my RC10L2 into a curb, strait on, at almost full speed, due to a radio glitch. It survived without a scratch. Reedyb3
I slammed my RC10GT into a two-by-four at the end of a straight away. The track was wet and so was my brake disc. It pretty much ripped every thing off the front of the car and bent the chassis all the way back to the engine.
My friend has a RC10 Team Graphite that hit a crack in the cement and was set off course into a very large jagged rock. It broke the left front shock shaft but that was it. The sound was sickening though. We thought that it was much worse, and he almost threw his remote.
i was driving my rc10t2 in my backyard track when the screw on my steering servo came off. I went threw a puddle of water then flew off the berm and strait into a brick wall. luckily, I only cracked the bumper
I was racing my B2 at my local carpet oval in the gearbox class. (with eastern modified bodies) It was a big track, and since there was no sportsman class that night, there were a lot of newer drivers in my heat. I was battling for the lead with another driver, when all of a sudden there was a car driving backwards on the back straightaway. He ran into the leader, I managed to get away from the wreck, but there was a car coming off the corner who rear-ended me sending me hurtling in the air towards a pole in the center of the room. It hit the right side of the car, ripping off both A-arms, and half the rear shock tower.
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When I was turning around on my track, I lost control of my GT and it hit the back of the
drop off which was framed by 2x4's, it hit at almost full throttle. Luckly, nothing was
broken, except the pipe came off the header.
Once my T3 was going off a huge jump when it was hit by another car. It fell on the back stretch and slammed onto the pipes used to mark the track. I only broke a single tie-rod.
when my B3 picked a fight with a cement post that holds up one of those huge lamp posts, well, I got a piece off it and also my car bounced back going at full throttle
During a qualifier I was warming up my GT. I was heading down the straight-away (in the right direction) and hit another GT head-on that was going the opposite direction. I was doing full throttle (about 25mph) and the other guy was going pretty darn fast. Only my air filter popped off and my front bumper got bent upward. I went on to take 2nd in that race.
My idiot friend Mike was driving his T3 on a frozen lake--or at least he thought. When he went to drive it back onto the shore it drove into about a foot of open water. When he got it out it was soaked. It eventually all dried out.
Well i was at the local track when my car jumped the pipes outlining the track, and ran into the street and got run over by a car. That's my worst crash. [Associated responds: Count yourself lucky. Read on ahead for the steam roller version.]
At Discount Hobby Warehouse in San Diego, I saw one RC10 GT go off the far left side of a jump and land on the long straightaway going the wrong way. The driver kept going at speed and another 'GT hit him head-on, combined impact speed of about 45 mph!!!
It really wasn't an accident, I launched my B3 over ten feet in the air for a pic to send to RCCA. It flipped over in mid air and the only broken part was the battery strap. To bad the picture didn't get in it was sweet air.
Run over by a steam roller.
RC10L with a D-12-7 rocket motor attached to the roof of a Lumina body. The car went straight up about 10-12 feet then slammed on the blacktop. It lived for at least 2 more attempts
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