Randy Pobst’s name has been getting a lot of mentions here, and for good reason: he is Motor Trend’s resident hot-shoe, he’s an accomplished driver (and I’m underrating that severely), and he’s a genuinely nice guy to boot. Seriously, he reminds me of a professor I studied under: polite, positive attitude, and the knowledge and ability to win at whatever he does. The guy has been pro driving longer than I’ve been alive, and holds numerous championships, including North American Touring Car Championship and two 24 Hours of Daytona trophies. Put him in a car and rest assured that he knows what the hell he is doing. And you can rest assured that when things go badly, he will be the first to explain the fault. This footage is of Randy attacking Pikes Peak behind the wheel of a prepared 2009 Nissan GT-R. It doesn’t go well. In fact, it flew off course.
Randy posted onto Facebook later: Pikes Peak Racing meets Dukes of Hazzard disaster! You gotta watch and share. Dark cloud: I misread road and fly our GT-R off, literally. Silver lining: I’m ok, we were very fast until then in sketchy oiled-road conditions, and crash wasn’t MUCH worse, ‘cause it coulda been. Thank you to the team for excellent prep, and apologies for throwing it away with mental lapse. Owner Rob Brooks and PPR have been amazingly supportive. I’m not fired!
Glad to see he is alright. And glad to see he picked a nice, low section of the mountain to wing a high-powered Nissan off of. The mountain isn’t as forgiving a little further up the road.
(Courtesy: Jalopnik)
I’m glad that he’s okay. Hopefully he’ll be able to turn this around for next time.
Should have the “D of H” theme playing in the background.
Jeez that landing looked painful..glad he’s OK – seemed like a nice guy on the last Roadkill…so that car was an auto trans by the looks?
The best eh? It has often been said there is more talent on the street than there is on the track.
Lucky for him he ended up going off the track at a relatively safe location.
Later.
Considering this is Pikes Peak, he’s lucky he went off where he did and not over a 500ft cliff !!
“Ouch” glad he’s OK, race on!