Mark-
Would you have any advice for the "lesser experienced" of us in such a
situation? It seems like many of these incidents occur when I driver makes
multiple attempts to save it on a run thats already blown time and penalty
wise. I watched a camaro driver at my very first autocross go 300 feet
past were he first got crossed up in a high speed offset trying to save it.
Just short of spinning, countersteer, snap, countersteer, snap,
countersteer, etc.... Left a really pretty set of skid marks and set a new
record for mangled cones.
Seems like the thing to do would be unwind the wheel and apply brakes. I
guess each situation is different and its probably pretty hard to give such
advice over email, but I do drive a HIGH COG truck sometimes and I drive it
fairly hard. I'll never put sticky tires on it, so I don't think I run a
huge risk. I'm not sure I'd recognize a "bad situation" if it slapped me
in the face, but I do want to keep my truck sunny side up.
-STE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Sirota" <msirota@isc.upenn.edu>
To: "David Hawkins" <otgrouch@twosrus.com>
Cc: "Paul Foster" <pfoster@gdi.net>; "team.net" <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: Ayers Roll Hold the Mayo
| David Hawkins wrote:
| > Has anyone given a definitive distance to the timing van?
|
| After the car stopped moving, the timing van was probably 40' away, and
| the car waiting at the line was probably 20' away. Just estimates
| based on memory. The maneuver that precipitated the rollover was a
| considerable distance down the runway -- remember, this was a very fast
| section of the course, approximately 70 mph in my Formula Ford, so
| the car went pretty far from the point where the driver lost control to
| the point where it stopped moving.
|
| The course was rulebook legal, and I'm not aware of anyone who felt
| it was unsafe after walking it (intimidating maybe, but not unsafe.)
|
| Mark
|
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