Diver944

Looking good as always Pat. Can't wait to see the latest videos after the track session

Dea_944t

Is that a TonyG splitter?

/Dea

333pg333

Sorry to say but I had a pretty decent off yesterday at the fastest part of the track. Met with the tyre wall at a reasonable pace. At this stage it looks fixable but won't know until all the panels are stripped off. Fingers crossed. Pretty sure it wasn't entirely my fault. It looks like there was something on the track that caused me to lose traction very rapidly. Oil or marbles. Hit the wall quite hard. Feeling pretty sore but I'm ok. Ribs are very sore and to make matters worse I have a cold/cough...OUCH!

I have copy of the video which I might post up. Not for young viewers!

blown 944

At least you're ok. Sorry to hear this

NZ951

*****. Sorry to hear it mate... thats my worst nightmare when I track my car...

facboy

NZ951

PS ramp rate is the resistance the dyno applies to the wheels, which controls the rate at which the rpm increases.

DDP

Patrick, I'm really sorry but glad you're ok.

Crazy Eddie

Very sorry Patrick
Glad you are OK
I wish you the best of luck on the damage not being too bad.
Kind regards
Ed

Paulyy

Hope you're allright Pat! best of luck for recovery and also hope theres minimal repairable damage done to the car.

hally

Glad you're ok Patrick. Best of luck with the car

Bri Bro

Damaged ribs can be very painful...makes you count how many times you breath per minute. Hope you heal up soon.

I am sure the car will be fixed/rebuilt , fix yourself first.

Eric_Oz_S2

Patrick,

That's awful. At least you are OK. I have seen a lot of offs over my 4 years of doing sprints, and I count myself lucky it hasn't happened to me. For a while we were getting one every track day (especially wet days). It seems to have reduced to only 2 or 3 a year now.

Hope you get over your injuries and don't have too much heartache repairing your car.

333pg333

Thanks for all the good wishes guys. Much appreciated.

The day was going pretty well but the car felt a little taily and sort of darty from the outset. So we took the rear sway bar off completely and changed suspension settings a little. Car felt better. Engine felt strong.


Well here's the video. This is on the new short North track at Eastern Creek.The new flip flop is quite challenging and quite a bit heavier on the brakes than I anticipated. I was behind an 'interesting' car. An AlfaSud....Sports Sedan. Mid engine 13B with GT35. Pretty fast in a straight line but he was holding me up in certain sections. So having fumbled around trying to create 3rd gear from 5th at the top corner (to date, this refuses to comply) I set sail after him and was quite deep before shifting to top gear. Car just seemed to get a bit light initially and I corrected but then the surface just felt like it was pulled out from underneath me. All I could think of was not to over correct too much and snap back onto the inside left wall. Seen this happen quite a few times and it's not pretty. Totalled cars are the norm, roll overs not rare. So I just had to sit out the ride across some wet grass and through the gravel. Even had time to downshift. Managed to scrub off a bit of speed but as you can see, the impact is still pretty solid.
Ribs are sore and to make matters worse I have a cough which kicks in at night as you lie down. Tore the muscles even further in a very painful bout last night.

Got the car back to the shop and on the hoist. From appearances it looks like the frame is ok. Roof and windscreen are straight. Whole left hand side it damaged but from underneath could only see lh tie rod bent. Will have to slowly build up an inventory of spare parts and put it back together again. That's the risk with this hobby.

ps...if you really want to feel sorry for me you can all join in and sing Happy Birthday! haha...too funny.

Paulyy

at least you somehow got the car facing the other way.
i wonder if the car infront was leaving marbles from that corner, seems like he took near the same line as you did.