Paul Walker Died.

[theantirotor]

this is one of those things that i am having a hard time believing right now.  i have openly admitted to enjoying the fast and the furious franchise so it will be sad to see those go.  also from all that has come out since his death it sounds like he was a great guy and very humble and modest as has been said.


i was listening to a radio show on the way to work this morning that was saying he had seen a soldier in a jewelry store wishing he could afford a nice engagement ring and he quietly told the jeweler to put it on his tab and slipped out without even saying anything about it.  if that is true that was a pretty awesome thing to do.

[Jordan Innovations]

Met Paul years and years ago at PC 201 in La Crescenta where I grew up (and near where he lived), he was super cool and not a prima donna at all.  Talked to him again a few years back when we were doing a SEMA car and my gf ran into him... always knew Roger as the money guy at AE, but lots of Porsche Owners Club and Grand Am guys I've talked to this weekend knew him at the track.  Both guys knew how to drive, but as has been said the Carrera GT is a wicked car... totally possible it was human error, but the AE guys are talking about a fluid leak/trail up to the accident that might have played a role. 

RIP to both guys.  I know this has tempered my enthusiasm to go thrash my new setup on the street.

The one thing that's for sure is that since this and my buddy Luke's old C6 race car burning down this year, all of my customers are bumping fire suppression up to the top of their lists.

[spacevomit]

I guess we should all be extra sure not to have any fluid leaks as well..

[largeorangefont]

I guess we should all be extra sure not to have any fluid leaks as well..

Are you rethinking the 18,000 fittings on your car?

[spacevomit]

Yes, definitely. I've also heard Zac for example mention a close call, where a fluid leak caused a sudden loss of traction, I'm sure it happens all the time. But laziness has rewarded me in a sense, in that I've been able to learn something about how to/not to use fittings by just playing with them and putting them together wrong and posting it on the internet over and over again until everyone yells at me and then I go sit in the corner and think about what I've done (instead of just doing it haphazardly and rolling with it and not learning anything).

[theantirotor]

I guess we should all be extra sure not to have any fluid leaks as well..

Are you rethinking the 18,000 fittings on your car?

i lol'ed.

[mattster03]

***Possibly borderline NWS due to the advertisements on the side of this page***

Some surveillance footage has been posted.  You can even see the Blue (M3?) guys from the "it's going to blow up video" being first on the scene:

http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_oehej0ek/

[AndreS]

goes to show.... even in the best of conditions, even with the most skilled drivers,  bad stuff can and will happen.  RIP

[Dvous]

I guess we should all be extra sure not to have any fluid leaks as well..

Are you rethinking the 18,000 fittings on your car?

i lol'ed.

While this thread isn't funny, at all.  I literally had a seriously hard time keeping my coffee in my face when I read that haha. 

Back to the topic, this has all but killed my desire to toy around on the road.