[DeTomaso] Sad day for a Norwegian Pantera owner

[Julian Kift]

More and more insurers are including exclusions for all encomapssing 'track days' rather than for 'timed or racing events', thus many High Performnce Driving Experience (HPDE) events are no longer covered under you insurance program, so it pays to check. The problem is when specifically asked any insurance company is likely to come back with the answer you don't want to hear. But yes there are now insurers you can take out supplemental insurance through e.g. Lockton Affinity or Ontrackinsurance.com, not cheap but certainly peace of mind.

 

Many SCCA regions offer PDX (basically same as HPDE) but as a club they are usually better set up for insurance cover than many of the smaller 'for profit' individuals offering HPDE events, so it's worth checking on SCCA events available locally to you.

 

Of course you can always try the tested method of taking it away from the track and have an accident happen on the way home...., but it's kinda difficult to pass the insurance scrutiny test when photos are plasterd all over the web or Youtube.

 

Julian

 

 

 
> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 11:40:37 -0400
> From: boyd411 at gmail.com
> To: joernco at online.no
> CC: MikeLDrew at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Sad day for a Norwegian Pantera owner
> 
> At first I thought the foam was snow, I was thinking "God , this guy is hard
> core!" But then I read the foam comment and saw the fire truck and was still
> stunned by the prospect of that happening at some future track event. I was
> just reading some promo material From the "drivers edge" about their events
> at Texas speedway and they implied that since it is not a race(their
> event's) nor a timed event your insurance should / might cover this type of
> event. They also sell supplemental insurance to cover your participation in
> one of their events. They are listed as a "driver improvement" program I
> guess similar to this place in Norway, so it's not actually "a race " being
> held on Texas Speedway might make the "Non race premise" a hard sell to your
> insurance company.
> Boyd
> 
> 2010/5/15 Jørn C. Olsen <joernco at online.no>
> 
> > I haven`t figured out who`s car this is yet.
> > The driver was transported to the hospital but I don`t know his condition.
> > He went off in a corner and the car flipped ower on the roof. A gas leak
> > made it necessary to foam it when it laid upside down with the ignition on.
> >
> > This is not a proper race track but a training facility for secure driving,
> > winter driving, wet conditions.
> > Dangerous track because big rigs, busses and road cars often spil gas or
> > diesel in corners.
> >
> > http://www.skantraf.no/?vis=artikkel&fid=4976&id=0&menymagasin=ja&t=Sikkerhe
> > tskurs bane - glattkjøring
> >
> > J.C
> >
> > -----Opprinnelig melding-----
> > Fra: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] På
> > vegne av MikeLDrew at aol.com
> > Sendt: 15. mai 2010 16:21
> > Til: joernco at online.no; detomaso at realbig.com
> > Emne: Re: [DeTomaso] Sad day for a Norwegian Pantera owner
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 5/15/10 5 45 1, joernco at online.no writes:
> >
> >
> > > Lost it at a track day event!
> > >
> > > http://www.fvn.no/lokalt/kristiansand/article763231.ece
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > JC,
> >
> > Do we know who this is, and how it happened?
> >
> > It's very sad indeed to see a Pantera smashed up like that, and it looks
> > like it got foamed by the fire truck too. Was the driver okay?
> >
> > Will it be repaired, or is this now a parts car?
> >
> > Mike
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