Agree, poor maintance practices. Lugs were started and not tight. Always the
last thing checked before hitting the track each and every time.
Bet he never forgets again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>
To: "'David Lieb'" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>; "'Spridgets'"
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] ok, who tech'd this car?
> Might be too long of a shoulder on the lug nuts. They "torqued up" by
> bottoming out, but did not fasten the wheels tightly to the hubs. I was
> that
> nearly 15 years ago with a guy on the British Race Group Team, in a TR4
> with
> a surrey style hardtop. He lost a rear wheel coming in to 7 at Blackhawk
> and
> totaled the car when it rolled.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net
> [mailto:spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of David Lieb
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:23 AM
> To: Spridgets
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] ok, who tech'd this car?
>
> I am not buying the "wrong lugnuts" theory. If he had "torqued them up",
> they would not have walked off. The studs would have sheared, but the
> video
> plainly shows lugnuts on the ground with nothing in them. For all four
> wheels to have come off at once, he had to have merely started the nuts
> and
> walked away. He also HAD to have noticed that soomething wasn't right as
> he
> pulled up to the line. I am betting that this was his first event where he
> changed tires at the track.
> David Lieb
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