Warning for borrowers and lenders of race cars

[Jon]

It is hard to understand how this happened, if it jumped out of gear as the defendant claims, or the defendant missed a shift, then the rev limiter should have prevented damage, unless there was not one installed but that would be stupid to not have one so I have to assume that there was one. It is more likely that it was a mechanical over-rev that the defendant is trying to hide, the so called "money shift".

Jon

 

[Seymour Snerd]

Read the court judgement;
http://www.leeds-solicitors.com/piperhales.pdf

An unfortunate and salutory lesson all round; the lawyers won.

There are another couple lessons:

1. Mark arranged for insurance to protect him against this exact situation and the insurance failed to do so. Believing you are insured when in fact you are not is a really dangerous place to be.
2. Mark apparently was a very poor witness and admitted in writing that he missed a shift. So at best he's guilty of trying to "game the system" and then getting caught at it.

 

[Michel]

Very very strange case !!!
It's very interesting to read all Court judgement
I still do not understand why ;
Any writted form was not done beetween two so professional parties when using such car
Why the journalist have not stopped test day if he was not happy with the gear box
Why after breakage a meeting have not taken place to state what to do and who is doing what ?
Why if the journalist was not ok the car have not been stored in a safe place to be checked by a third and independant people ?
Why Piper have taken by alone the decison to repair the engine if the journalist was not ok

Racing cars of this sort are not toys to play with, specially if absolutly all bad possibiliteis and their result are not written down !!!!!!! Friends one day , enemy following one !!!!!!