The ONE from Antigua

wraith · Postby **wraith** » July 5th, 2010, 9:34 am

To those who do not know the "ONE" is one of the fastest Rotary's in the caribbean outside of PR.

It got destroyed sunday at the Antigua track, Jose Joeito from PR was driving and escaped without any serious injuries.

click the link for the video.

Picasso · Postby **Picasso** » July 5th, 2010, 10:44 am

What the hell!!

Dais the width of the track they running on and look at debri on the side of the track going straight down. RWD men brave to run on that !!

Glad to know the driver ok..

NXTREME · Postby **NXTREME** » July 5th, 2010, 10:47 am

wow that track doh look too safe at all.

BlueIce · Postby **BlueIce** » July 5th, 2010, 11:09 am

high powered car + bogus track + tree "walls" = not good ....he is lucky to have survived

any details on his injuries?

wraith · Postby **wraith** » July 5th, 2010, 11:55 am

BlueIce wrote:high powered car + bogus track + tree "walls" = not good ....he is lucky to have survived

any details on his injuries?

he came out fine, no real injuries at all.

here is a video of what the car looks like now

Sorry but cannot understand how to embed the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBTUOcVf-M

moti · Postby **moti** » July 5th, 2010, 12:03 pm

moti · Postby **moti** » July 5th, 2010, 12:04 pm

wraith · Postby **wraith** » July 5th, 2010, 1:41 pm

some pics

driver

RoTaRyBoYz · Postby **RoTaRyBoYz** » July 5th, 2010, 2:09 pm

That car was originally named "Pito Time" and the chassis was built by my b!tch I mean, boy :lol:

"Gaby Chassis".. Driver is Joyto with the "Zagas" starlet.

Sad to see such a beautiful 1.8 come to an end like that.. Thank god is driver is ok

I took this pics of The one a few years ago in PR

Joyto aka Zagas

trini mk5 · Postby **trini mk5** » July 5th, 2010, 2:42 pm

At least dem have a track

NXTREME · Postby **NXTREME** » July 5th, 2010, 6:18 pm

good point^

MANIAC · Postby **MANIAC** » July 6th, 2010, 10:29 am

Damn .. such a great loss !!

nigie · Postby **nigie** » July 6th, 2010, 11:36 am

trini mk5 wrote:At least dem have a track

Well with what they calling a track many trinbigonian racers who have bravely raced there said they will not run on that "track" again untill some improvement was done...there have been previously ... similar run offs...which have raised safety concerns.....sadly this tradegy of the one will hopefully kick start the needed improvement..and also hopefully motivate us to give more consideration to safety ..when it comes to racing

trini mk5 · Postby **trini mk5** » July 6th, 2010, 12:18 pm

trini mk5 wrote:At least dem have a track

So they can start improvements....we have a bunch of greedy men who want to dictate motorsports :evil:

nigie · Postby **nigie** » July 6th, 2010, 12:26 pm

trini mk5 wrote:At least dem have a track

That "track" is privately owned...its only here we want the government to hand we a track so we end up as you say with a bunch of greedy men who want to dictate motorsport..(with tax payers $$$)and llittle of theirs..and still make supernormal "profit".....only in trinidad that could happen.

trini mk5 · Postby **trini mk5** » July 6th, 2010, 12:34 pm

Sweet T&T oui!!

Sinister_Audio · Postby **Sinister_Audio** » July 6th, 2010, 2:34 pm

sigh....dont hate on the track,
look at the extensive development the cars have done to their chassis work, look at the crash,
that roll cage is EPIC!!

sorry to hear about the loss, was truly a monster.
and a legend it will remain.

nigie · Postby **nigie** » July 6th, 2010, 3:30 pm

Not hating on the track..but it is the most feared track of the islands...ask any racer its tremblesome...

dragaholic · Postby **dragaholic** » July 6th, 2010, 8:34 pm

roll cage did its job. Take note you high horsepower car owners.
Thats not de same track where Desi destroyed the lancer?

sparky · Postby **sparky** » July 7th, 2010, 6:20 pm

i had the opportunity to see that car in antigua and that car is baaaaad. it has a well built 3/4 chassis rotary powered.the job look like car show material. sorry that had happen

Sinister_Audio · Postby **Sinister_Audio** » July 7th, 2010, 9:52 pm

dragaholic wrote:roll cage did its job. Take note you high horsepower car owners.
Thats not de same track where Desi destroyed the lancer?

yezzur

wraith · Postby **wraith** » July 8th, 2010, 9:55 am

another angle of the accident.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8haVpVa2So

MANIAC · Postby **MANIAC** » July 8th, 2010, 10:09 am

I believe some years ago, The Sheik Machine went across there to race and they slammed the wall just after launching ... That track has a sharp left turn at the end of the 1/4 and hence they have to brake either hard at the end or just before the quarter marker. I think sometime ago, the higher horsepower cars used to run 1/8 miles because of that sharp turn !!

wraith · Postby **wraith** » July 8th, 2010, 10:29 am

MANIAC wrote:I believe some years ago, The Sheik Machine went across there to race and they slammed the wall just after launching ... That track has a sharp left turn at the end of the 1/4 and hence they have to brake either hard at the end or just before the quarter marker. I think sometime ago, the higher horsepower cars used to run 1/8 miles because of that sharp turn !!

Yep it was sheik and the bedroom slipper and nobody wanted to stop until they crossed the finish line, sheik hit and grazed the guard rail all along the corner before coming to a stop.
The high hp cars there only run 1/8 mile because of the stopping problem.

nigie · Postby **nigie** » July 8th, 2010, 11:15 am

there was also a similar accident recently..... roughly in that same spot by a v8 powered car..and actually it was very very similar...anyone has the vid?