Truck driver wins Lamborghini, crashes it hours later

Post by **Pine** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:21 am

Thanks to a Utah convenience store's contest, Frito-Lay truck driver David Dopp won another set of wheels last Saturday: this lime-green, 631-hp Lamborghini Murcielago LP-640, worth at least $200,000. Such an awesome car that will...oops, he already wrecked it.

Just a few hours after getting the keys to the V-12 powered Italian supercar named for a famed Spanish fighting bull, Dopp took to the roads around his home in Santaquin, Utah. According to In Santaquin News, police were called about dusk after a witness spotted the all-wheel-drive Lambo bass-ackwards in a field, with skidmarks from where it left the road.

Dopp -- who had apparently already taken one call from the local police about takin' it easy before going off-road -- says he was going about 40 mph to 50 mph on a 35-mph road when he hit a patch of what he called black ice or gravel. The police report says the car went over a curb, off the road and 75 feet into the field, calling the accident "speed related."

The Murcielago is now bound for Las Vegas, where mechanics will calculate a repair estimate on the busted oil pan and damaged bumper. Dopp, who has insurance, says the day was "an emotional roller coaster." If you mess with a bull, don't be surprised when you get the horns.

JonnoDub · Post by **JonnoDub** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:49 am

I would rather sell it and buy a Porsche !

riaanj · Post by **riaanj** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:55 am

Hahahahahahahahaha.. Dumb-Ass..

JamesD · Post by **JamesD** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:12 am

He is lucky that is the only damage. These exotic performance cars are skittish and do bite (dont ask how i Know). The best thing you can do is take it to the track and play there. Once in a while you cant help but play a bit on the road but its too dangerous to push the car too hard. Wouldn't say he is a dumb-ass, the guy had insurance atleast, but definitely new and inexperienced to exotics. Live and learn. AND no one else was involved, so thats a very good thing.

MINCE · Post by **MINCE** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:24 am

If I won that thing, I would have written it off! I have never touched anything more powerful that an M3

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:48 pm

The old classic lift-off-over-steer bites everyone who drives something mid engined and seriously powerful at some point (ask me how I know!)

I thought all the I'm-a-pussy-but-the-computers-make-me-look-like-I-know-what-I-am-doing electronics in there would have made it uncrashable....LOL

Post by **eben** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:00 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ks-it.html

MINCE · Post by **MINCE** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:35 pm

Barry wrote:The old classic lift-off-over-steer bites everyone who drives something mid engined and seriously powerful at some point (ask me how I know!)

I thought all the I'm-a-pussy-but-the-computers-make-me-look-like-I-know-what-I-am-doing electronics in there would have made it uncrashable....LOL

HAHAHAHAHA,
and
How?

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:31 pm

MINCE wrote: How?

I have a Noble.....and it lets you know when you run out of talent!

karmakoma · Post by **karmakoma** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:38 pm

I read his surname is DOPP, bet he had a few after that accident.....

MINCE · Post by **MINCE** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:53 pm

Barry wrote:
MINCE wrote: How?
I have a Noble.....and it lets you know when you run out of talent!

How Noble of you. Nice car. That is the Ford V6 one hey? Don't let me drive it … yet

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:36 am

No worries Mince - I won't

....yet

Need to save some $$$ for tyres - anyone know of some 265/35/18's going cheap?

Post by **eben** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:41 am

You should post some pics/vids Barry

JamesD · Post by **JamesD** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:51 am

Barry wrote:Need to save some $$$ for tyres - anyone know of some 265/35/18's going cheap?

Have you thought about semi slicks, give ATS a call, they not badly priced. I'm going to be running them once I go through my current tires on the Elise. Already have them on the birkin and the grip is amazing. In fact, they should be alot cheaper than road tires. even thinking of putting them on the Bug.

Post by **Bugger** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:49 pm

Barry wrote:No worries Mince - I won't

....yet

Need to save some $$$ for tyres - anyone know of some 265/35/18's going cheap?

265/35/18`s are exactly the size I am looking for to fit back on the Fly

they aint cheap

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