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Wedge Traggic Day for 2 Holland Drivers

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Thanks for the article Nial.
All I saw was the Swedish version
 
So is this really correct:

close to the notoriously difficult "Gina" road jump, which propels vehicles some 40 meters (131 feet) into the air.
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Does it mean the cars cover 40 meters without touching the road, rather than jump 40 meters above the road?
 
After looking over the picture I see it had a safety devices bolt in cage......no roof cross braces, no additional braces on the main hoop or front bars. Not a very safe roll cage at all. It is sad but that's why in my project I added additional bars. Trees and rock don't move. Sad to see a pair of enthusiast pass away an in this manor.........
 
Are you sure Mike.
It was an older Rally car that had been raced before
 
The car had a big motor and the roll cage was a bolt in. It did not have any side bars. The car was built within the last 5 years. I wonder if it had more cage if they would have been ok?
 
So basically it was a street car.

Surprised they let it in the demonstration
 
WedgeWorks said:
The car had a big motor and the roll cage was a bolt in. It did not have any side bars. The car was built within the last 5 years. I wonder if it had more cage if they would have been ok?
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Are we sure of the car's history? The ex Buffam rally car which looked very similar to this was sold last year on eBay and went to a collector in Holland....
 
It had a ton of upgrades such as suspension, rear axle and brakes but the safety aspect of preparing the shell with the cage was not addressed the way it should have. It had a 4.6 liter with quad webers. The cage in my opinion was not enough but if they were doing high speed run and went airborne then who knows. If you go to You Tube and look up TR7V8 or TR7 rally crash you will see Ian Wilson's first yellow TR7V8 rally car that rolled something ridiculous like 7 or 8 times in Australia and he got hurt but survived and he builds cars with over designed roll cages. I think this might be the first rally fatality in a TR7? I know that the checkered flag TR7V8 a works car hit a stone wall and was compressed 6 inches in width with the co-driver breaking his pelvis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECy-shlwlek
 
Mike, do you still have a picture of my first race car after it was compressed 6 inches? You must. You have more pictures of my cars than I do!!
 
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