[Shotimes] Re: (OT) Accidents Happen - Be Careful Out there!

[Tom Smith]

Going into the laces is a tough left hander. There is almost no run off
on the right side of the track. This year they have pushed the Armco wall
(what I used to call the wall of death, but is not too funny with this
story) back about 30-40 feet and added an enclosed tire wall. I will
have to relook when I am there August 29/30.

If I remember correctly (I try not to look at that wall when I go by ;)
Is that the wall angles back toward the track and pinches off any runoff
room.

This is the first year that every event I have been to someone has
wadded a nice car into a ball that was taken away on a wrecker. It was
not always in my run group before I get a Nunnally conclusion that
maybe a SHO was the cause ;)

I have not seen any car flips this year, so I guess it has been a better
year? That was an instructer with a student car and is a sad story for
another day....

Tom 91+


On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Mark Nunnally wrote:

> that sucks.  this is why if you do a lot of track stuff, you can never have too much safety gear in your car (good helmet, roll bar/cage, good padding, good belts, etc).
>
> turn 6 is going into the boot (tom smith probably has some insight on this, he's probably been there more than me and I know it's recently been changed with the IRL cars coming there soon) but off the top of my head I remember a tire barrier against the armco in that corner.  I'll have to dig up my in car videos from there.
>
> between 5 and 6 is where the NASCAR guys peel off for the short course, the boot extends downhill for a lefthander (6).  It's pretty fast, top of 3rd gear for the SHO (~100 mph) before braking/turning in, but you never know what could have happened.  Could have rolled it (a boxster right?) after hitting the tirewall or something.  It's not what I would call a "bad" place, but it's a racetrack and you are at speed....anything can happen.
>
> when we did an EMRA time trial there in Oct '03 it was rainy and we wrecked 7 cars that day from our group.  including a '02 Z06 and a '03 WRX.  it's a narrow track, with the armco following you all the way around...not very forgiving if you drop 2 or 4 wheels off
>
> mark
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