Tetsuya Ota wins big compensation case.

[chris]

Accident: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~glide/vids/TBK_FAMEFLAME_DK_Tetsuya_Ota-1998_Japanese_GT_Championship_at_Fuji_Internationa l_Speedway.mpg

(Warning - some of you may find the video disturbing - it is very graphic)

Story:
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200310/29/20031029p2a00m0fp019000c.html

Former race driver Tetsuya Ota has won a ¥90,000,000 compensation pay-out in court after the court ruled raced organisers were to blame for his sickening accident.

This is one of the most horrific accidents I've ever seen.

[wello]

yes that was a very bad crash I had not seen that footage before
a fair ruling as well
for people who were wondering
90,000,000YEN=1,135,114.24AUD ,845,388.90 USD ,461,390.18 GBP,
665,662.45 EUR

[Remko]

This is one of the most horrific accidents I've ever seen.

You can say that again - Yikes! :eek: Each time I re-view it, I can't help but wince. =[

[chris]

I've seen a few other accidents involving the F355, also including a heavy side impact where a similar big flash happened.

Although they weren't quite as bad because the thing wasn't fat with fuel, unlike the car of Ota Tetsuya (proper way to write the name, with the family name first). Ota's car probably had 80 or 90 litres of RON98 in its tank.

I wonder do these race version F355's have safety fuel cells? I would suspect they should have them..

The safety cells are basically special "bag" like semi-flexible tanks, like what the Mclaren F1 road-car featured, and like what every F1 car has.