Just my two cents. Somethings are better left unsaid, maybe this is one of
them?
Don't say anything in this forum that you don't want the whole world to know.
I'm not directing this at any one person, just saying that I found out the hard
way what happens.
Be Careful
Have fun
Mike B.
George Ryan wrote:
> Jim Ham satated he was not sure whether this was a sanctioned
> SCCA event, but thought it was.
>
> The course clearly did not meet the SCCA's guidelines. A SSS
> should have intervened, if it was in fact held under the SCCA
> sanctioning. It is the Safety Stewards responsibility to both the
> club and to it's members to ensure that these type happenings
> do not occur under the club's banner and insurance.
>
> George
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> Mark Praner wrote:
>
> I was there This track was insanely fast I think in my 91 N/A mr2 i was
> reaching speeds up to 85mph it was too fast to do anything. No wonder why
> the vette smacked into the concrete barrier.
>
> Mark
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>
> Jim Ham wrote:
>
> OK fellow netters the latest from the Chicago Region. Camaro flipped over
> today at what was an incredibly fast race course designed into the two
> access roads at the Route 66 raceway in Joliet, Illinois. This was the
> Chicago Region's 2nd event of the year and turnout was large. Most of the
> course was done in 3rd gear in most cars and top of 4th in the mods. The
> roads traverse an expanse of about 3/8 mile in each direction and is
> approximately 20 to 25 feet wide. You may be familiar with this place if
> you've read the Sportscar issue reporting on the roadrace held there last
> year.
>
> The day was wonderfully mild with bright sunshine and mild winds. The
> drag racers all looked in amazement at all the strange looking cars
> entering their arena but were more in admiration than jealousy. The
> event had gone long due to numerous timer errors and the large number of
> cones being hit.
>
> Corner workers had a tough time getting the course reset as competitors
> smacked and whacked cones in the high speed offsets and multi-cone slaloms.
> The way the course was designed this day would have found the dragsters to
> hold fast times since there wasn't much turning involved. Cars on street
> tires were running competitive raw times to their race rubber clad stock
> class equivalents.
>
> Now more on the flip...a resident local racer with a white Camaro Z28 lost
> control of his car at very high speed and slid off the asphalt, then about
> 45 feet across grassy surface into a drainage ditch and flipped over
> eventually landing back on it's wheel. The event came to an abrupt halt
> while the wrecker from the dragstrip made it's way out to the car and
> pulled it out of the muck. Luckily the driver was not seriously injured
> and
> the car was able to be driven off the course. The car was badly battered
> and the rear window smashed out.
>
> Part-time Ace-reporter Jim Harn signing off...
>
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