Hey fellow track rats, I made a short video for laughs and figured you guys might appreciate it. The other driver didn’t get hurt and neither did his car, otherwise
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11-02-2020, 03:05 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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Z car terrorizes Buttonwillow
Hey fellow track rats, I made a short video for laughs and figured you guys might appreciate it.
The other driver didn’t get hurt and neither did his car, otherwise I wouldn’t have made this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3K9bbCZZa3c |
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Man I thought you are going to scare the next one into the dirt too lol
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If you miss sunset your best move is to drive straight out into the dirt. If you try to save it you will end up as that car and he was very lucky not to hit the wall.
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That could have been ugly.
What's bad, is when you loop it and you're eyeball to eyeball with the guy behind you. Both your faces look like this.
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We did have a wall hit that day. A burnt orange V1 Nismo lost control and trashed the rear passenger side. Looked like it was from the taillight and aft so hopefully minor damage. |
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Turn1 one NJMP Lightening, almost everyone who tries to save it goes into the same 40' section of the wall. So much so they put two Concrete Barriers in the back to help reinforce it. You can actually see the tire marks of the saves tracking out left and the fails tracking right. I've gone off a few times there too, there is almost 1000ft of grass run off to the left to get back control while almost none to the right. Most newer tracks are built well and have run offs in the right places but older ones like Watkins Glen have many spots where if you screw up there is no safe way to go.
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No matter which road racing circuit you're on, dropping three tires off the track is a recipe for disaster. A spin or crash are likely outcomes if the driver doesn't get out of the throttle and focus on where to ease the Z back onto the track. Sorry to take the humor out of this, but with 33 years of road racing experience, I've seen some hard lessons from novices who think that serious fun includes off-road incidents.
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