[DMVR] Re: $ vs. skill

[Karl T]

True - heard the same.  

Guess what I should have said was '$$ vs. Brains'.  

I had heard he was doing 100mph, but either way, 100 or 150 in a street
car with no cage, on a track, is just asking for problems.

Karl 


--- Bell <fourbells1@mchsi.com> wrote:

> From what I read on other boards - always subject to hearsay problems -
> the 
> Carrera GT driver was quite experienced.  This was a Ferrari club event,
> not 
> using corner workers, and with a configuration at Calif Speedway that
> has a 
> very short, rather blind, pit-out blend area rather than the usual long
> one 
> on the oval.  The driver swerved to avoid a car entering from pit-out,
> and 
> lost it at about 150 mph.  The entering car reportedly messed up the
> timing 
> somewhat in its entrance to the track - some confusion between a course 
> marshal and someone in the car as to whether to go ahead or hold up.
> 
> Sounds like the problems were with the event organizers on track 
> configuration and staffing, more than anything else, and somewhat with
> the 
> entering car.  That and driving a street car, however fancy and fast, at
> 
> race car speeds without race car protection.
> Fred
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