Prescott Rally Audi Quattro crash

I had no idea this happened until reading this article:

https://bangshift.com/bangshiftapex/rally-crash-story-audi-quattros-destruction-2017-prescott-rally/

They got really lucky! There's some good safety tips in there as well.

A great postmortem analysis for sure - hard mounting lexan is bad and only use motorsport approved extinguisher mounts are fantastic takeaways. 

WOW. 

A shame about the car, but at least the safety equipment essentially did it's job.

I love the Prescott are, but man those rocks are unforgiving.

Wow. 

Good info. Need to update my seat, mounts, and do some steering column and cage work in the race car. Steel seat mounts it is. I need to get that thing a lot lower in the car because of my freakishly long torso. Jcamper

that is really going to have to lookinto better stuff for anything in the future for sure. glad they are ok for sure. and very lucky.

I worked my first rally in 1995 (Rim of the World) and Ron Wood was the guy doing tech inspection. I learned a lot from doing tech at Rim and then when organizing Seed 9. My road race car has host of upgrades based on what I learned from guys like Ron.

I've talked with Mustafa a number of times over the years; he's got a great sense of humor and good taste in cars (owns a few classics). I'm glad he and his co-driver were OK.

I have a  pair of master kill switches in my car, one outside and one inside, I was sceptical when the tech guys told me to do this, then noticed in an old Nissan prep manual it noted to do the same. After reading Mustafa's comments about turning off the car while briefly stuck inside it makes total sense.

I am surprised that they have the fire bottle mounted inside the driver compartment; if you want a hand held for small fires mount the thing in such a way that if it breaks the clamping mechanism it's not going to be flying around the passenger compartment (build a box contain it with in a net etc.)

Finally despite everyones best efforts driving  conditions can become mariginal very quickly; if you can't see for God's sake slow down. I am in no way criticizing Mustafa as once upon a time I used to gut it out (doing 100mph on a wet track with 100ft of visibility)  but as racers we're good at ignoring the obvious and think our talent will take care of us.

I've heard of several instances where fire bottles have come loose. Those things can be pretty heavy and do some damage flying around the cabin of a rolling race car. It's something I haven't given all that much thought to.