it only took six hours..., or, how to throw away $380,000 Options

[Rob Hood]

SANTAQUIN, Utah – A Utah man who won a $380,000 Lamborghini in a convenience store chain's contest crashed the sports car six hours after he got it.
The lime green Murcielago Roadster was set to leave for a Las Vegas body shop Wednesday for repairs, just days after Santaquin resident David Dopp won it in Maverik stores' "Joe Schmo to Lambo" contest.
"Yeah, I got it on Saturday and I wrecked it on Saturday," Dopp told KSL-TV.
He said he was taking friends and family on joy rides that evening on the outskirts of town. He said he took a curve at 40 or 50 mph when the vehicle hit ice or loose gravel and started spinning.
The car crashed through some fence posts before coming to rest in a field.
Dopp wasn't injured, but his wife said she was shocked.
"My heart pretty much fell out," Annette Dopp told KSL. "They said they were OK. Then (came), you know, that feeling when your heart drops and you're like, 'Oh, my gosh. What do we do now?'"
The 640-horsepower Lamborghini has front-end damage, a punctured wheel and scratches along the passenger side. The vehicle is insured.
David Dopp was videotaped last month jumping up and down and hollering in speechless disbelief when contest officials announced during a college football game that he won the car.
The giveaway, which awarded participants for using a rewards card at Maverik stores, was co-sponsored by nonprofit organization "teamgive," which raises awareness about rare neurological diseases.
David Dopp said it was strange seeing the flashy, exotic car in his humble driveway. He told ABC 4 in Salt Lake City that he plans to sell the vehicle to pay off bills and buy his wife another car — as soon as the Lamborghini's drivable again.
"It's going to be all nice and pretty here in a couple of months, I'm sure," David Dopp said.

[Spruill242]

Yeah I read that.... I don't have anything to say.... Pretty obvious...

[Phil]

He said he took a curve at 40 or 50 mph when the vehicle hit ice or loose gravel and started spinning.

sure....

[trackbird]

I found this version:

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/tru...-220724449.html

Truck driver wins Lamborghini, crashes it hours later

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.

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[Al weyman]

Was that David Dopp or David Dope?

This post has been edited by Al weyman: Dec 22 2011, 01:44 PM

[prockbp]

What does this mean?!? Driver's education in the USA doesn't prepare you for 640hp sportscars?

[Lemons racer]

We can talk for hour's about how poorly trained we American driver's are, even though we all think we can drive the wheels off anything. The fact is that these cars do require professional drivers training to operate at anywhere near the car's potential. I used to work ( on the side, and mostly for fun) for the largest Abarth collector on the west coast, he also collected other Italian exotics like the first Monteverdi 450 SS HAI of 2, the first & last of 12 ATS 2500 GT. Along with many others, I drove all these cars but never past or near my potential, which to be honest is probably about mid pack. That is where most people make there mistake thinking that the car makes you a good driver, this just isn,t so. Heck my wife used to work for a guy that owned a chain of Round Table pizza restaurants in the Sacramento area and bought a Lambo, totaled it on a freeway off ramp within 3 hrs. Performance vehicles require a large amount of respect and unfortunitly like in this case they don't get it. I'm going to add this next part just for fun, to test Norm's cars I would take them to the San Mateo bridge (straight & long across the San Francisco Bay) at around 3:00 AM (after the drunks made it home) pay the toll & drive away normally for approx. 1 mile then hammer down, if the car has a problem back down & take it back to the shop to sort it out, never had any mishaps, even at speeds at over 150 MPH, keep in mind these were 50s & late 60s cars. So anyway hers my 2 cent's, worth thanks for listening.