Being the passanger in an S1 sliding towards the corner of a brick wall at about 60mph, I remember the feeling of the corner of the wall ramming into my leg and seeing the dash shatter in about 5 bits. We had to kick the front screen out and climb out that way. car was bent like a banana. Fortunately we were both ok, I had a sore leg and side from the wall, but it could have been very nasty.


Racing a VFR 1000 in my Corsa Turbo, foot welded to the floor, behind him about a cars length away in 6th around 160 (by the speedo) along a straight road. I know the road well but had never pushed on that hard along it, the road dips pretty sharply then shortly after again into a very slight right hander. As we both come to the first dip we both took off, completely airbourne, then as the bike landed he had a massive tank slapper and I landed nose first behind him and the back end bounced and skipped about from side to side. I vividly remember pointing at both walls while fighting to straighten up again before the next dip and bend. I kept my foot in as I figured lifting off would only cause me to die. Got it straight, round the bend and the bike throttled on hard again so I followed suit and we continiued playing for another 10 minutes or so. That could have ended so very very horribly and I always remember it clearly as I drive that road and now slow down a lot at that point if Im pressing on a bit.