#truestory - I crashed the WRX. Again.

The title is true.

This happened.

I went to the Bruce Peninsula of Ontario. I found a closed road. I went on the closed road and made many videos and whatever.

Melons

Updated: 31 Dec 2015

The title is true.

This happened.

I went to the Bruce Peninsula of Ontario. I found a closed road. I went on the closed road and made many videos and whatever.

But, as the night went on, I began pushing too hard, trying to have as much fun as possible and learn as much as possible.

I went alone, with no pace notes and no previous experience with the road. On my second or third pass, I was going fast on a stretch of road which is mostly 4L and 4R corners with tall crests and a few 3Rs. I crested the biggest crest on the road and realized that I was looking at a 3R- corner, carrying the speed of a 4R and with the car unbalanced due to the crest. I had only enough grip to lock the brakes to slow down a bit, and turn to use the snowbank to keep me out of the trees.

It was a fun thing, as I love slow, narrow roads.

But I was very close to the trees. I measured it. 3

If I had made it, this straightaway would have greeted me

I opened the hood to remove the front bumper

The front bumper was dug way in. The snow climbed up and in between the bumper cover and the radiator.

I had to fully remove the bumper cover to prevent damage.

I had to wait for an hour for the tow truck

This was my view - and soundtrack - for an hour. Bears are scary. I'll stay in my car.

A fine 82 year old gentleman tow truck driver fetched me out.

It was - afterall - time to escape and get some sleep

Yeah.

I wasn’t lying.

But - with that said - I have inspected for damage. There is none. At all. The body work damage was pre-existing from previous events, and will be fixed.

But why is there no damage? I was driving like a lunatic - one would expect damage!

Well, it’s because I went to the middle of nowhere. There is nothing but snowbanks and trees. I looked for animals. They are all hibernating, or hiding from the loud Subaru sounds that surely spells danger. There are no people. The nearest inhabited house was like thirty minutes away. That was on the main road. This road? As I said, it was closed. Not closed closed, as in inaccessible… No, no one has any business driving on it. It’s basically a personal driveway - where the owner of the cottage will not pay $100,000 to have the cottage “winterized.” The natural gas lines, the insulation, the structural costs… It’s not worth it. So the road is abandoned.

It makes the perfect place to play around.

It’s not that petrolheads need to be boring. It’s that they need to be responsible. If you do a safety pass to verify that no one is on the road, and verify that no traffic is coming.

Being safe doesn’t always mean not having fun. Being safe means not getting hurt. That’s what I did. And yes, I paid the tow truck driver for fetching me out - part of being responsible.