That’s right. I’ve gone and gotten a flat in on the Lexus IS-F and essentially buggered our weekend plans to shoot a road test video. I suppose it would hurt a little less if I had been hooning around in the car, but that wasn’t the case. Here in Ontario, the boys in blue have gone hog wild in their pursuit of speeders and that includes sending helicopters after conspicuous speeders on rural roads on long weekends. I dutifully drove home last night with the cruise set at a pedestrian pace, while I watched hundreds of other cars sail past me. Once I hit the secondary roads, I towed the line like a good little soldier.

As I crossed an intersection I drive through daily, there was a patch of gravel that has been there for a couple of weeks. I had driven over it the day before in a car with 55 series tires and there was no bump. This time, there was just enough bump at 50 kmh to snakebite the giant left front Michelin Pilot Sport. The low tire pressure warning came on almost immediately and the telltale whomp whomp of a flat tire made itself known. I pulled over to inspect the damage and prayed that a full size spare was part of the package. Sadly, I had no such luck as I pulled out the bright yellow mini spare that just screams: Hey, look at the dolt in the sports car with a flat tire!

The plan for today was to get together with Kevin “Crash” Corrigan and Lesley Wimbush and take some video of the blue beast on the road. Now it seems like it will be a more stationary shoot, with lots of Gary abuse at the hands of the wonderfully witty Mr. Corrigan. Unless of course I can hunt down a 255/35ZR 19 Pilot Sport somewhere in the next few hours!