Here are some old pics to hold you off until I get back from the Ring on Sunday. All these pics were taken on Jun 22nd 07

 

Alright i-club, I lost control on the Ring yesterday and after 2 360's, I smashed into the wall at about 30-40 mph. Sad thing is I didn't have a passenger and since my camera mount hadn't come in yet, I wasn't video taping at the time. Well there are so many nice cars at the Ring every weekend. I take about 70 pictures on average everyday I am there but I only post about 10 of them. Anyway, here's some pics from this weekend.
All pics in the post are from 14 October 2007
Ferrari 430's getting off the track

Lotus Exige

Audi R8

Evo VI

AMG Mercedes getting on the track

Litchfield Spec C STI

Skyline R34

Another R34 Skyline

Something made by Renault

Euro Spec STI with my wrecked STI behind it

 

Here's a couple pics of the damage. It's going into the shop today so I'll be back on the Ring in a couple of weeks.

 

not too bad on the damage glad you are OK after that kind of thing



i think the skyline is the rare N1


MB DTMs wow thats awsome you got pics of two

and OMG its the lotus 7 that car is the fastest thing around that track
if thats the catheram (sp?)

 

i envy you for having access to the ring.

 

To be honest, I am not too impressed with the Caterhams. Every weekend, I see about 5 Caterhams at the Ring. I can catch/ pass Caterhams all day long for some reason. Lotus's and GT3's on the other hand are nearly invincible on the Ring if they have a good driver.
As far as the damage is concerned, believe it or not that's $9100 worth of damage. The bumper pushed back and buckled the inner fender. If you open the hood of your Impreza and see where the passenger side struct tower is, that piece of the body buckled. The Passenger side BBS wheel was destroyed, 2 crossmembers bend, there's a lot more damage that you can't see in the pictures. It twisted the whole passenger side of the car down. Look at the drivers side of the hood and you'll see it sticking up a bit. The passenger side of the vehicle is about 1 1/2"-2" lower than the drivers side...and it's not because of the donut tire.

 

dang that was a hard hit then


any update?

 

Ouch. Sucks about the damage, but that's the price of running the 'Ring. I hope you have it squared away and back on the track asap. Please keep the thread running!

 

Wow, I'm so jealous.

Whats the USD cost of running the Ring?

 

^$20-30 a lap. Not including gas+damages, lol.

 

*UPDATE
Well after 2 weeks in the States collecting more parts for my car, I returned to Germany only to find out that the car is still not repaired. There was a bit of frame damage on the passenger side. Notice in the first pic in the passenger side inner fender (light green area), you can see where they had to cut that section out and repair it. The good part is that the engine was dropped and the shop let me do a little bit of work on the car. I changed my front shifter bushing and spark plugs all in about 15-20 minutes. That's gotta be record time lol. I was going to throw in my WL steering rack bushings as well but I can't get to them right now. Here's some pics of what the car looks like as of yesterday:







My UR GT30 Turbo kit and FMIC have arrived and are sitting comfortably in my living room. This would be the perfect opportunity to install everything huh? But I thought I would wait until they put everything back together to make sure the engine is working and they didn't mess anything up.

 

gah pics arent working



but yay its going back together cant wait to see what its like in the end