Another Corvette has met an early demise after a 21-year-old driver lost control of his car, ran off the road and crashed into a tree.
MLive reports the driver was going too fast and slammed into a massive tree in a tight corner of the road in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A 17-year-old passenger was also onboard. Both sustained non-life-threatening injuries but emergency responders had to free both from the Corvette after being pinned inside.
Police have ruled out drug and alcohol influence and stated high speeds were the cause of the crash. From the crash photos, it looks to be a C7 Corvette Z06, judging from the taillights. The carnage is pretty incredible and its miraculous both the driver and passenger didn’t suffer from more serious injuries.
At any rate, 650 horsepower is a lot to handle; too much power for a 21-year-old, in this case.
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I bought a new 2017 Grand Sport and added a Magnuson supercharger. Yes, it is a hand full and takes a while to get your head around a car with this much power. If you take your time and use back roads, with little or no traffic, you can get a handle on the performance incrementally. If you try to jump right in before you are ready it can be a disastrous learning experience.
The problem was not the speed. It was the driver’s fault for using that speed on the wrong road and at the wrong time with no training on how to handle that Corvette. The article above says so in few words: “.. the driver was going too fast …”.
There is only way to learn how to handle a HiPo vehicle at speed and that is on the track. There is no time or is acceptable to use an ordinary street to “check it out”. I’ve been a track instructor for 18 years and created the NCM HPDE program as well as project Mgr for the track.
Many buyers today think that the car “makes” the driver. Many do not get the fact, that a inexperienced or bad driver, will remain the same regardless of the vehicle purchased lacking proper learning techniques and experience. Thus, the driver makes the car, the car does not make the driver.