tgibrit

My worst fear at DE events, seems like your car took quite a battering with all the rocks thrown up, I hope there was not too much damage. Did the offending vehicle suffer a mechanical issue or just brain fade?

FourT6and2

Looks like he attempted to pass on the inside of that turn? And car understeered or he just locked up the brakes?

orthojoe

Some chips in the wheels, but the clear bra protected everything else.

Driver was afflicted with red mist at a hpde. After my coach went up to talk to him, he tried to blame him for shutting the door on him and that he 'took one for the team'. The following session someone else from their 'team' did this:

Of course, they placed the blame on the car they hit, not themselves.

They won't show their video because the video cards were 'full' and didn't capture.

orthojoe

That would have been the better story to go with. Instead they tried to blame my coach for 'cutting him off.'

Let's be clear, that car was nowhere near the pace of my car that day. With me or my coach in the driver seat. I can't speak for my cousin who drove the car for a session too. It's possible too. Lol

FourT6and2

WTF! Is that the same car? Almost took out your RS with coach driving and then hit another car on the same day?

orthojoe

Different car. Same team/group of thugs. One of many other issues they caused that day

bellatrix

Sheesh. That makes all the track days I've ever been to look like kindergarten with tricycles. And I've done a Touristfahrten at the Ring. Glad you're ok.

montoya

Wow, this just emphasizes how close we can be to disaster when running a DE. I think I’ve shown this before but it illustrates the same thing. This time a surface condition threw me off to those very close walls at Sonoma (side by side to show it wasn’t driver error):

mdrums

They are banned from your DE group now right? Jeez...glad everyone is ok but man what an azzhole driver!

Here in the southeast we have race teams using DE's for testing too...they are usually ok slightly more aggressive drivers with nothing really to lose....these race teams at DE's make me wonder sometimes as you would think they might be better drivers but usually not.

atc5

I've never seen anyone get slammed from behind like Joe did. Hopefully there was some paddock justice served.

jp884

Wow, simply Wow! What an idiot that guy was.

RDCR

8A - 9 is the "Bermuda Triangle" of Sonoma Raceway. If a car is going to drop something on the track or its wet it always seems to be there that someone spins or goes off. I've hit surface stuff twice there in that same general area. The 2nd time in the GT4 was similar to your off except I ended up scrubbing the tirewall on the right side down below the entrance to 9. Everything was normal coming out of 8A, I start the turn into 9 and the next thing I know I'm headed off.

Joe: that's unbelievable and scary as hell, especially that second incident. Watching it the first time I was thinking to myself that guy was looking pretty aggressive in the rear camera view right before that happened.

drdonger

Your coach is a nice guy. I would not have the will power not to punch the guy in the face. It's fine if he apologized and took blame for coming in way too hot, but if he tried to put the blame on me I probably would have gotten charged with assault.

zmon

JEEEEZ. the nissan Z holy cow. first did he not see the long paved run off in front of him?? and in your slow mo when he was going through the first patch of grass he had one hand out the window.. WTF!!

Not even going to go in to the audi incident. the brz must have had some nice damage after that hit.

orthojoe

He didn't apologize. Tried to blame it on my coach for pinching him off. Said he 'took one for the team'....

They had no clue that my coach is a 23 year veteran in racing. Real racing. Not this pseudo pro garbage