A few weeks ago I went to DC and street parked. About 45 minutes later the barricades and police showed up — they were clearing the street for the presidential motorcade. It was really cool to see it go by — something like 27 vehicles — and they made sure the street was entirely and completely devoid of traffic.…
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Yep, I was wearing a Hans. LeMons made them mandatory this year and we’re all better off for it. There’s no excuse for using a foam donut on track nowadays. Split one or two devices among a team if you must, but get a proper head and neck restraint. We have the technology, as they say. Maybe they need to figure out…
seriously...
My sister lost the key’s to my mom’s Ford Aspire. My dad went to a locksmith who (rather than having to make an after hours run to the other end of town) cut him a set of copies in all the factory variations.
I think doing HPDE would help with that discouragement of winning, since the main point at every track event I’ve done is that there’s NO RACING. haha
Yeah, Kinja blows.
Sorry if it came off like I was trying to say you said she did anything wrong. I just thought you might have missed, or been confused about, the order of the events. There was a lot going on in that section of the article. She said it finally died as she was trying to pull off, so I assumed that was the last thing she…
Ball of foot on brake, side of foot on gas... That’s how I’ve always done it.
Stuff like this is why you are my favorite writer here.
Sorry, some German guy named Teeter Piel gave me $20 to post that.
That’s incredibly rude.
Scary stuff, Stef.
When I read the article in GRM that referenced this crash, I cringed at the description trying to imagine the violence of the impact. Now reading the rest of the gory details, I’m cringing all over again, but worse.
Few things are more dangerous in racing than your car dying on track in the middle of a turn. You’re probably going…
GMC knows what grade they’ll use.
But really, when has GM ever faced consequences for stupid past decisions and resistance to new technology?
im glad to see both parties were arrested
Terrible... I hope they find ways to improve safety so this doesn’t happen again.
The video of the crash seems to show the roof being sheared off. If that is the case, there is a SERIOUS issue with teh design and construction of the trucks, the course itself, or both.
I carry one, but from past experience, they’re pretty useless for anything other than a tiny localized fire. A large fire like this requires a lot more agent than a typical car sized extinguisher.