User 52121

It's out of our Lemons car (an '86 N/A). Basic Sachs unit. Clutch was put in the car in ~2010, we've probably run a dozen? races on it. We're not hard on the car, and the car isn't anything special.

It failed 22h and 47m into a full 24H race (and, as luck would have it, right after we passed P1 to get us on the lead frickin' lap in P2). Driver upshifted from 3rd to 4th, felt a little muffled "bang", and nothing. Freewheeling. No noise, no racket, no indication beforehand it was about to go.

V2Rocket

must've been a hell of a clutch-pedal dump from 3 to 4.

JustinL

Hey Jim, Here's a picture of my clutch I mentioned to you on Facebook.

User 52121

Yeah you're right looks like yours was on the way to failing the same way!

fasteddie313

Impressive destruction

Build it, race it, break it.
Now fix it..

Tom M'Guinn

I had one do that about a million years ago. It was on my 6 cylinder Pontiac back in high school. Mine made a loud bang when it let go. I was just driving on the street, not even driving hard.

mikey_audiogeek

Stock flywheel?

Paulyy

Are you sure the last few words before it happened where "watch this launch"

chrenan

Sorry Tom, something doesn't add up in your story.