It is usually the driver...Does anyone have any direct or indirect knowledge about MX5's
rolling, and what made them do it?
But seriously, the only ones I know any info about are Ray's yellow
recently, a US guy called Mark Peugeot who rolled his 10AE model (with many
go fast bits) and more recently a rolled merlot one in the US (where I
believe the driver died)
I can't comment on what made any one of these accidents occur, but some
articles below give some crash stories first hand.
I used Mark's car pic in an article about convoy driving in Top Down mag a
while ago (search for it on the website) Mark P's comments to me were:
"Please note in the article that the incident I had was not during a club
run. I only drive that irresponsibly alone."
I have photos of the merlot, but can't find a link to the discussion on the
US email list. I believe they were on their way home from a miata event.
You might find the info on google or miata.net
If you are interested in miata MX5 safety in general, this page has some
stuff including photos & stories.
http://fizzx.net/safety/
someone not used to driving a rear wheel drive.. and totalled a '97
http://marc.merlins.org/~merlin/perso/lucky.html (pics & article)
and I found a brief miata rolled news article copied here (not much tho)
http://list.miata.net/miata/1994-06/251.html
article (commercial) about roll bars vs style bars etc
http://www.crazyred.com/cri/pages/style ... ml#STYLEVS
Hope this is useful, cheers
h+c+z
for the search engine...
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