How Ken's LSPR ended

"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures) 10/25/2013 at 13:34 • Filed to: None

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The most balled up car I've ever seen on stage. Sucks, he'd pretty much kept it clean all season.

ddavidn > Dusty Ventures 10/25/2013 at 13:35

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Awwwwww

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Dusty Ventures 10/25/2013 at 13:38

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Any footage?

It's a "Porch-uh" > Dusty Ventures 10/25/2013 at 13:41

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Yikes. Pretty much wrapped the bodywork around the cage. That's what a serious cage will do for you.

dinobot666 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/25/2013 at 13:49

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Not that anybody has found. The crash wasn't very close to any spectator points, so nobody has any footage of him crashing.

David Higgins hit the same mound of dirt that caused Block to roll and it put him up on two wheels, nearly causing his Subaru to roll as well.

Dusty Ventures > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/25/2013 at 13:49

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So far only aftermath, seems everyone was at the hairpin 1/4 mile up the road.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Dusty Ventures 10/25/2013 at 13:51

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Damn, I want to know how many times it rolled to do that.

Dusty Ventures > dinobot666 10/25/2013 at 13:51

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Actually it was just a couple corners after a spectator point, but said point was a hairpin so everyone was there, no one expected anything photo/video worthy from the innocuous R6>5 afterwards

Dusty Ventures > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/25/2013 at 14:01

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Alex (co-driver) told me it was five or six.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Dusty Ventures 10/25/2013 at 14:03

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shit, was it end over end?

04sneaky - Boxers. Blowers. Bikes. And bitches. > Dusty Ventures 10/25/2013 at 14:14

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They going to put this up for auction still right?!?!

I want to touch itttttttt

Dusty Ventures > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/25/2013 at 14:15

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Some of it

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Dusty Ventures 10/25/2013 at 14:18

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I need to see this now.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Dusty Ventures 10/25/2013 at 14:28

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Wow, that's a mess. No wonder it didn't make it to the awards Saturday night. All I had heard was that they had an off, this is the first I've seen of how bad it was. You've got to give credit to the cage builders and some luck there. Since I've seen no mention of injuries I assume they don't have anything worse than bumps & bruises?

Dusty Ventures > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 10/25/2013 at 14:40

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Yeah, they're fine. Just a little sore and very disappointed. Car's a total write-off. Alex said it was the most damage they'd ever done to a car, way worse than Portugal.

Hope I didn't come of as standoffish or anything at expose. I'm a little socially awkward in general and when we met I still had to get rally time and the start order (along with a few other issues that needed to be sorted) so I was a little distracted. I apologize if I seemed like a bit of a dick.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Dusty Ventures 10/25/2013 at 14:47

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No worries. I figured the last minute before a race isn't really the best time to have a light conversation. Having played hockey and stuff I'm pretty familiar with last minute nerves.

Dusty Ventures > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 10/25/2013 at 15:02

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Actually expose's usually a great place to chat, I just needed to take care of my business first. If you'd found me after the driver's meeting I would've been much less distracted lol

KTMAngryDragon > Dusty Ventures 11/11/2013 at 10:04

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"No I'm not ok."

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Dusty Ventures 11/11/2013 at 10:55

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Don't worry, it's OK!

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > Dusty Ventures 11/11/2013 at 12:40

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Annie, are you OK?!

Are you OK?!

Are you OK, Annie?!

TheRallyStache > Dusty Ventures 11/11/2013 at 21:32

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I was there...

http://bryce-the-hoonigan.kinja.com/ken-block-cras…

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Dusty Ventures > TheRallyStache 11/11/2013 at 21:41

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Me too ;)

bariki > Dusty Ventures 11/12/2013 at 04:50

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FWIW, it doesn't take anywhere near that much damage to total a production-based race car, by the way... pretty much any decent hit to a fully seam-welded chassis means you need a new shell. The reason being is that a stock body localizes the damage, whereas a seam-welded one causes the damage to ripple through the whole body shell. And you can't straighten a seam-welded chassis either because it's too rigid.

IIRC I read somewhere that a typical professional racing car takes 800 manhours to build.

Of course, for someone with sponsor money like Mr. Block, building a new car is no big deal.

Foxtrotzed - Internet Sensation of 2010 > Dusty Ventures 11/13/2013 at 15:37

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Well then, that's what I get for not checking Oppo before heading out! Living in Houghton means it's kinda hard NOT to attend. Also I take it you were in the Yaris Dusty? I would have stopped at parc expo!

Dusty Ventures > Foxtrotzed - Internet Sensation of 2010 11/13/2013 at 15:41

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Yep, rocking the too-skinny co-driver seat