Sadly, there is now one less FiST on the road 
I had a blue one in the Dallas area, until Thursday night - when some hit & run asshole dashed 3 lanes over on the westbound 635 to try and make the 35E south exit at the last minute! Thanks to years of track & AutoX since 1974, everything went into slo-mo and autopilot. I am lucky to be alive right now, but the car has been declared a write off.
Was in the far right lane with no traffic around me. Saw a big black sedan (Mercedes or BMW) out of the corner of my eye coming at me about 45 degrees towards the front of my car. I swerved to the right to avoid contact, but he still hit my left front bumper, and continued on without stopping! Car started to go sideways, but racing skills kicked in, and I calmly fought for control. Ended up going right between 2 guardrails, missing both (left had the crush zone, right one would have sliced us in half!), and then the bottom of the car was ripped to shreds by a large upraised concrete, went through a couple of signs, then into gravel. Am lucky the car finally stopped where it did, cause a few feet further, I would have gone over an embankment, either head first hitting the road below, or flipped with the roof (and me) crushed - and perhaps hit by another car on that road!
All this time, the jerk took off, and not one person stopped to help, see of I was ok, or to be a witness!
Man, am I pissed off!!!!!!
Now I need to find another car soon.
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I had a blue one in the Dallas area, until Thursday night - when some hit & run asshole dashed 3 lanes over on the westbound 635 to try and make the 35E south exit at the last minute! Thanks to years of track & AutoX since 1974, everything went into slo-mo and autopilot. I am lucky to be alive right now, but the car has been declared a write off.
Was in the far right lane with no traffic around me. Saw a big black sedan (Mercedes or BMW) out of the corner of my eye coming at me about 45 degrees towards the front of my car. I swerved to the right to avoid contact, but he still hit my left front bumper, and continued on without stopping! Car started to go sideways, but racing skills kicked in, and I calmly fought for control. Ended up going right between 2 guardrails, missing both (left had the crush zone, right one would have sliced us in half!), and then the bottom of the car was ripped to shreds by a large upraised concrete, went through a couple of signs, then into gravel. Am lucky the car finally stopped where it did, cause a few feet further, I would have gone over an embankment, either head first hitting the road below, or flipped with the roof (and me) crushed - and perhaps hit by another car on that road!
All this time, the jerk took off, and not one person stopped to help, see of I was ok, or to be a witness!
Man, am I pissed off!!!!!!
Now I need to find another car soon.
