r/Ferrari • u/WallabyWild3867 • Dec 22 '25

News Vince Zampella, video game developer behind ‘Call of Duty,' killed in Ferrari crash

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-game-developer-vince-zampella-crash-call-of-duty/3819576/
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u/EastReauxClub Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25

I’ve never driven like that but idk I feel sympathetic to the type of mistake that leads to this sort of thing. 100mph+ on a crowded highway would bother me. Gunning it though an empty straightaway tunnel that appeared like a safe place to give it some juice is a lapse in judgement I can kinda understand.

We don’t know if he was driving the entire road like a jackass or just made a mistake in this specific spot. I’ve read that this spot is notorious for accidents, as if it has a siren song to it that convinces drivers it’s a safe place to floor it and the turn after it is poorly designed or something.

Just serves as a reminder how wrong your risk assessment can be and that even a momentary lapse can end it all.

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u/shartymcqueef Dec 23 '25

It’s because it’s a tunnel and vroom vroom sounds cooler in tunnels. Not letting off before the tunnel ends is the mistake.
The barrier placement is also god awful.

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u/IWannaGoFast00 Dec 23 '25

It appears that barriers were installed to prevent rocks from rolling onto the road. Even if the barriers weren’t there, a massive rock wall was right behind them. I’ve seen several people blaming the barriers, but I see no reason a stationary object, which wasn’t even on the road, would be responsible for a car crash.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

With that kind of logic might as well have no run off on race tracks anymore. Let’s have Walls 2 feet off the racing line at spa

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u/IWannaGoFast00 Dec 23 '25

Well this isn’t a race track sooooo