Question re: wrecked 2001 360 Spyder

[cpot187]

My father recently purchased a 2001 360 Spyder, which we took to a SCCA event this past weekend. I was driving the car on the track when the right rear tire blew (at about 120 mph) and sent us into a spin that resulted in us getting into the wall at about 80 mph causing significant damage to the car.

My questions are the following:
1. We had only owned the car for about 3 months and hadn't driven much more than 200 miles. We had not checked or adjusted the air pressure until the day of the event - when we adjusted the air pressure, both front tires and the back left all had 24.5 psi; but the right rear had 39 (!!) psi. The right rear is the tire that blew; could the dealer have been covering something up by putting more air into the right rear? I guess it just seemed rather fishy to me that the right rear had so much more air than the others, and ended up being the tire that blew.

2. The airbags didn't deploy upon impact. The car was careening backwards when it collided with the wall, but shouldn't both airbags have deployed, regardless of direction?

Any insight would be much appreciated, as we're still trying to figure out if there may have been some history to the car we're unaware of.

[Racer86]

first, glad you are OK.. Rear impact may have been below the level for airbag deployment. That saved you $$$. Rear tire is suspect, but,now it would be hard to prove anything. I hope you didn't track it with 39lbs in it. That alone would be dangerious as the tracking heat build up can amount to 5 to 10 lbs pressure increase.
Your tires are all that touch the ground. We ran our tires 2 track events, and new tires were installed for the next event. As you now know, never, never go on track without the best equipment and setup. This story could of had a very bad ending. Welcome to the world of high speed driving$$$$$$

[Racer86]

And now I see you on Fchat stating that you will be back with the car, but now on slicks. Great, the next story will be how you crashed at a higher rate of speed because of cold tires. You might want to learn about slicks, tires in general, proper set up of the car, and a "real" tech inspection of the car before you hurt yourself or other drivers

[cpot187]

Slicks was a typo