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The car they were riding in was Rodas’ beloved red Porsche Carrera GT, which is a very powerful car thanks to a 605hp V10 engine. Now Rodas was behind the wheel and Walker was in the passenger seat and both men were clearly very talented and capable drivers so it seems rather shocking that they would have spun out like that. But then again it can happen to anyone with that much power on tap. This horrible event brought a lot of attention to the Carrera GT, some people claimed that it was “too powerful” and didn’t have enough safety features to prevent something like this from happening, or protect the people inside in the event that it does. Porsche headquarters eventually sent out their own investigative team to try and determine the cause. They made a statement that the car had no major issues that would have caused the crash and therefore it came down to excess speed.