I don’t really know if tragic is the right word for this, because racing a super car on a public street and dying isn’t really a tragedy, it’s just an expected outcome.
Maybe don’t endanger others with your super car.
The tragedy is it wasn’t a single car-single human accident. Passenger was ejected and died later, driver (I presume it was this guy) died in a fire in scene.
Completely preventable. Someone’s hubris killed another human. At least this time the driver paid for his sin.
I’m hoping it was two dickheads who routinely did this and not just one dude with a supercar showing off to his buddy for the first time. The latter is definitely tragic, former is literally exactly what I expected happened when I read the headline. Very grateful the people watching along the sidelines didn’t get hit, I hope they get the therapy they need for what they ended up seeing. That’s a tragedy in itself.
Similar to the Liverpool (Football Club) player Diogo Jota who recently died as well. He was a good person from all accounts but he died while speeding in an expensive SUV along with his brother.
i wonder if an anti war quote flashed before his eyes as he died
Failed the QTE
Wasted.
the #1 market for Ferrari is people who don’t know how to drive them.
dang i guess he was producer of CoD1, the best CoD. welp, good drivin, dipshit.
All that money and you could take the car out to a private track.
But then how am I supposed to feel like I’m in Grand theft Auto
car yap
Ferrari itself has a program where they’ll sell cars that can only driven on race tracks, they store it and transport it, but instead he chose to endanger people on public roads in a 800 hp RWD 296 gts.
Ferrari FUCK Evo
599xx
There’s also other brands that do this, there’s even a chinese one called the nio EP9
the 296 gts costs like 300k while the others cost a few millions, but if he had enough money to joyride a car worth half a million, he can afford a car worth a few millions, there’s also kit car companies that can build him a race car for cheaper like the Ultima RS
TL;DR rich asshole has a lot of opportunities to not do this, yet chooses to do so
For that kind of money, you can also buy yourself a car to race in Ferrari Challenge with other CEOs and dentists. That sounds like a better idea than killing yourself on public roads idk
Legitimately I can’t understand the mindset besides wanting to feel like you’re in GTAV. If that was the case he shoulda ramped into a military base instead.
Car people are basically Funko people with more money
he got that car to bone, private track is too much scheduling.
Involved in CoD1 - MW2 apparently for anybody wondering like me
On December 21, 2025, Zampella died when the 2026 Ferrari 296 GTB he was driving veered off the road and struck a concrete barrier upon exiting a tunnel on the Angeles Crest Highway in the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles, with the vehicle then catching fire.
Bonus carbrain in his wiki article, sadly the car he was driving just veered off the road. Cars really do get the cop treatment
After watching the crash: why the fuck was there not an absorption barrier there? I feel like probs would’ve been alive if there was something to absorb the shock.
Even a normal speed collision with that barrier would fuck pretty much anyone up.
CW: fatal car crash with fire involved
The other side of that road is a steep mountainside. You’re not supposed to be going this speed on a winding mountain road. Are they supposed to build racetrack compliant buffer zones here for the safety of random millionaires who insist on showing off their latest $400k toys?
Watching the video 30 more times I don’t think any barrier would’ve saved them but I STILL think that particular barrier is dog shit. It is effectively a brick wall. No absorption. It would kill someone going the speed limit if they hit it wrong. I don’t see how hitting the mountain would’ve been worse lol
If I had to guess I’d say the barrier was cut short because maybe this has happened before it if hasn’t been repaired yet. The barrier needs to extend far closer to the tunnel so cars hit it from the side and not head on. It is literally acting like a bollard not an absorption barrier lol
I think more warning signs could help here. This is another video of a crash at that same spot, but the driver goes off the side of the mountain instead (and survives): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5NWcdq4Wf4
Watch from about 1:15. The combination of the dark tunnel opening up to sudden bright sunlight is also a big factor. Also, at the speed that Zampella’s Ferrari was going, fatality was inevitable either way.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
That barrier is to stop falling rocks ending up on the road.
Guy was driving like an idiot, most likely to hear his exhaust sound in the tunnel. FAFO I guess. It’s the murdered passenger I feel bad for.
Yeah falling rocks makes more sense. Surprised with a complete lack of signage in that area though. Guess that’s what happens when you go driving in Narnia.
Pulling half a body away from that crash, jesus
The worst part is that is the passenger. Yet again the dipshit driver gets the immediate release of death while their victims are left to suffer tens of minutes if not longer. Fucked.
this seems pretty obviously AI generated to this guy
Not seeing it tbh. No dogs coming to the rescue.
is this a bit. Like genuinely asking
The dogs coming to the rescue part was a joke but I don’t think the video is AI. could be wrong
the car kind of zaps into existance way after the tunnel. the camera work is way too smooth considering what happened if compared against known videos of people filming this happen. also ejected guy gets dragged away with his legs in a sitting position but on his back. Shit’s off
also ejected guy gets dragged away with his legs in a sitting position but on his back.
He has no legs when getting dragged away. You’re seeing a stump. He’s in his seat still, the entire seat was ripped from the car.
Everything else looks like auto stabilization built in modern smart phones imo. The biggest tell it’s real is looking where all the people are at the start and where the end up when they get to the crash. Watch the shadow of the guy to the left. AI ain’t good enough yet to capture that
Also the audio
I’m looking at it frame-by-frame and it seems legitimate. There’s a guy wearing a YoungLA t-shirt and the text is stable and not warping as the camera wips to the left to follow the car. The car’s headlights are visible in the dark of the tunnel before entering the light as well.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Press F to Crash
Ferrari is a pro-gamer company now
oceangate moment
Thanks for titanfall 2 i guess
