Wrecked Magazine
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During competition Vaughn Gittin Jr. and Sam Hubinette did battle which resulted in Sam Hubinette’s Dodge Viper having a broken wheel and Vaughn damaging his front end. Here they are sliding past turn 10A heading into the hairpain where the accident took place. At the end we want all of our users to vote on who they feel was at fault for the accident.
While it’s hard to see in the smaller version of this photo on the blog at this point in the run Sam Hubinette is already on his brakes heading into the hairpin. He is scrubbing tons of speed already well before the hairpin. Vaughn Gittin Jr. remains in close pursuit.
In this photo you can clearly see now that Sam Hubinette is continuing to brake as he needs to flip his car for the hairpin. Vaughn is still at his door but Sam Hubinette needs to flip his car to make the hairpin very soon since they moved the cones off the wall.
Sam starts bringing the car around and Vaughn is clearly going to be in his way. While it is the job of the follow car to leave room for a tandem opponent to make his moves around the course there is the question that Sam intentionally slowed down the vehicle well beyond what he needed to for the turn.
As you can see here the cars make contact and the speed difference between the two cars was so great that Vaughn managed to bend Sam Hubinette’s rear wheel. He bent a huge chunk of the wheel and messed up the the rear suspension which you can see in the photo below this one. Should Sam Hubinette be docked or marked for brake checking or intentionally slowing down or was he just trying to make the turn? Was Vaughn traveling too fast and just rammed him or was he not anticipating the slow turn through of Sam?
We want to know what you fans think, especially people who attended Round 1 at Long Beach. Who is at fault? Who do you think should of moved on or won the tandem battle?
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