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Posted by: mskala Oct 3 2004, 07:47 PM

Don't worry, happy ending for this clip.

http://www.rcd-video.com/images/100304spin.mpg
(1.5Mb)

Corner worker who IMO was way too close to the
track, had an eyeful.

My last run, just going that _little_ bit faster, when
I braked while not going perfectly straight. Came
at him at 50mph, but later when I watched the tape
I was pointed at him but sliding away. Anyway a
bit too close!

Posted by: J P Stein Oct 3 2004, 07:59 PM

Hay, ya got both feet in real quick.....you must have lotso' practice

Posted by: Bleyseng Oct 3 2004, 09:21 PM

Betcha he wet his pants!!!haha way too close to the track and that corner.
Even Monique got a laugh out of that one....
least he didn't run out onto the course like I had one moron do....damn near hit him as that red flag melts into all those orange cones.

Geoff

Posted by: Lou W Oct 3 2004, 09:26 PM

Wow, at least it ended good

Posted by: mskala Oct 4 2004, 04:34 AM

I get around -- umm, maybe I should rephrase that

Posted by: URY914 Oct 4 2004, 06:19 AM

I was at a autox about 12 years ago and there was a guy taking pictures. His back to the track. Car spins and hits him. He's thrown into the air and lands on the pavement, head splits open. He was dead on impact. I was one of the first ones to him.

NEVER turn you back to the cars!
NEVER sit down!
And stay back from the track.

Paul

Posted by: sgomes Oct 4 2004, 07:41 AM

...and when working a corner, stay to the INSIDE of the corner. Not the outside like the guy in the vid.

Posted by: smg914 Oct 4 2004, 08:20 AM

Dam Paul, where did that happen?

Posted by: URY914 Oct 4 2004, 09:27 AM

Steve,

This was in Bainbridge Ga. in 1991 or '92.

It was a SCCA event.

There were two firemen that were entered in the event and they did what they could for the guy. Of course it was out in the middle nowhere and they took him by chopper to the nearest hospital.

He was actually in an area that he had been told to move out of once already. He was an older guy there to watch his son run.

It was a long a quite ride home for my wife and I.

Paul

Posted by: Dave-O Oct 4 2004, 10:12 AM

I was doing that this weekend. I guess people wanted to skip the 150 degree hairpin, drive off the course in the middle of the offset slalom, and come right at me. At least the had a hundred feet or so to realize i wasn't a cone! Staring between the headlights of a vette isn't fun even if he did slow way down. Of course maybe if my engine would have kept running the whole way around the course i would have been going faster and done it too .

David

Posted by: tracks914 Oct 4 2004, 03:05 PM

Great shot. Too bad Andy didn't have a camera last week for us to all watch something similar!!!
See seat belt thread.

Posted by: bondo Oct 4 2004, 03:31 PM

Heh, at least he was ready to move. The inside of the corner isn't as safe as I used to think. At the WCC I was working the inside of a corner that was nearly a 180, to the left. I had a few cars drift sideways (oversteer), rotate until they were facing me, then stick to the ground again and come right at me. None of them made it all the way to where I was, but it certainly was a wakeup call.

Posted by: mskala Oct 4 2004, 09:33 PM

Yeah, from what I've seen (admittedly not a wide
variety), you are in at least as much danger on the
inside as on the outside.

If somebody is a little fast and loses it, the oversteer
will only be for a little bit, then after some speed loss
it will bite and start to head to the inside. I generally
don't see anyone going to the outside unless they
are way to fast and just lock up the fronts and plow.
It is a lot more predictable for the spectator/bowling pin.

Posted by: Brando Oct 4 2004, 09:54 PM

when you're going through the sloloms... don't jerk the wheel as so... smooth fluid motion...

okay couldn't resist LOL...

glad to see the cornerworker didnt get hit... how'd you lost it on the last part?

Posted by: john rogers Oct 4 2004, 10:35 PM

Does anybody have the video of the 'vette hitting the guys in lawn chairs that was on TV a couple of years ago?