1300 hp mercury comet brake failure crash

Watched the video a few times and read this entire thread. Everything led up to the crash, but one detail stood out to me. The fact he said that he “had to ride the brakes to drive that slow” with that slow being around 40 mph. Then stating that the throttle was “sticking at 2200 rpm”. With a 1300 horsepower engine and maybe I’m crazy but that 2200 rpm sounds like an idle speed that engine build might actually prefer. The fact he had to ride the brakes in an automatic makes me believe he didn’t have a high enough stall torque converter to even idle around a driveway…

I just spent $800 to replace a factory torque converter in my Duster 340 that makes around 350 to 400 hp because I would have to stand on the brake and let that pull engine rpm down to not take off at what was probably 1000 rpm (no tachometer).

Don’t get me wrong, he knowingly took unnecessary risk upon smelling hot brakes knowing he had been riding them…. And as for evasive actions taken, I did not see a good path to not hit anything. Even if the turn lanes had gotten the green light he would have most like plowed into a car anyway. So the fact he banked on that being an option makes me believe he was still thinking he could “save his car too”. Once he accepted the fate that the car was not going to survive it was too late to make a more proper plan that did not involve plowing into a parked car at 40 mph.

One thing I would have done differently in distress like that is to lay on the horn in hopes to get attention ahead to other drivers at the light so that maybe they have a chance to run the light to not get smashed into at 40 mph…