It boggles me that anyone would have any expectation that the seller of a high performance car would be liable for the driver crashing it. It’s not like they didn’t know it was a beast of a car. What happened to personal responsibility?
Even this simple purely informational use only website HN has a 10 pages list of "terms & conditions": https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
Any performance car builder should have one too.
It's a right hand turn and "locking the handlebars all the way to the left" wasn't trying to correct the "dumping" of the bike.
Locking the handlebars all the way left would hopefully have ensured the bike went down, stayed down and not sat back up again thus causing the "tank slapper". When you ride a bike, especially a motorbike you counter intuitively "steer left" to turn right, and vice versa.
Former sports bike rider here...until I bit the big green banana.
Turn-in is actually noticeably improved by lower tire tread on tires (as long as your tires are still roadworthy and the road is dry).
If you take a look at one of the most popular "sticky" tires for autocross, it almost looks like the tread has completely worn away on a normal tire: https://www.tirerack.com/images/videos/video_images_758x426/...
More likely they tried to get into the throttle during the turn at the wrong place, or tried to brake during the turn when caught off-guard, both of which would upset the balance of the car and send you off the road.
Traction control (or intentional chassis/suspension design) might have saved them from oversteering (spinning out towards the road), but not been able to prevent them from going off the road
I was once at an "open track day", and this group of kids brought a Nissan GTR and a Skyline. They couldn't drive these cars, there was a Miata out there that they couldn't keep up with. I never actually saw them out on the track, so all I have is second hand reports via stories that were making the rounds of the pits, but I do know they didn't stay very long.
The next car this (and other) shops build (if they survive the law suit) will come with a stack of "release of liability" documents for the buyer to sign. I 1000% guarantee that.
Its stupid on their part that they sold the car to him without release from any potential liability if he crashes the car or injures himself and others, like in this case.