Mike in Chi

http://eduardsbmw.tripod.com/id1.html

You know, before the clown hair...

cooleyjb

Well since it is a BMW one could guess that it's Dave, but with the wonderful outcome of what some people call "being in control" ghettoracer style, it just makes you go hmmmm.....

That's a heck of a sequence to get caught on camera.

Mike in Chi

No, not Dave. But this shot of the distraught drover somehow reminds me of the grinning clown flashing "Hang Loose" in front of the Miata he just wrecked in a Yin and Yang sort of way.

GhettoRacer

Hmm? My version does not involve going up side down yo.

PogueMoHone

Can I drove your car?

I think not!

kurt M

IIRC this also got him booted from the track. i guess there is more than one way to leave the track...

Bull

Mike, the driving style says it is definitely him.....but, the guy looks like he realizes that he just F'ed up big time. So, can it be *** Clown? If he knew how to identify and a be concerned about being F'd up, he would surely shoot himself and end the problem.

Mike in Chi

I was after the contrasts in reaction to damaging a car.

As to shooting himself, he'd likely threaten himself, and then find a way to back out.

BTW, in the last shot of the ghetto drove sequence, does it look like the rear end is well on it's way to coming around? I wouldn't be surprised if he did spin it, and just didn't post the rest of the shots in the sequence.

Bull

I thought I was too...

Those last pictures had me thinking the same thing! When the rear tires hit the paint, he was gone.

GhettoRacer

Bow down to my dorifuto skills.

Mike in Chi

I have to say it -- Good save, Frank.

I also have to say this -- A good drover with real skills, and not dorifuto skills, wouldn't have been there in the first place.


(And thanks for confirming that there was more to the sequence I thought so )

cooleyjb

In another place he mentioned how he planned to pop the car up on two wheels. That is why the photographer just "happened" to be there too.

Another step on the ladder to HPDE Champion.

Mike in Chi

Dear Charter Member of the GR Honor Roll

I was aware that the two wheel was intentional.

Evidently 'dorifuto skills' means "early apex like a rookie".

That looks like the Corkscrew to me. If he had used a later apex, he would have gotten air under the two left tires, and not had the near spin.

GhettoRacer

umm, have you been to Thunderhill? doesn't seem like. i don't think you should be talking about a track that you have never been on... i like to see you drive it a few times, and then maybe you can try to get some air. lets see how you do.

"turbo" (the corner worker that happens to be at that corner that day) has been working at thunderhill for YEARS. when he saw what i did he was blown away... i'm proud of the fact that the pix came out so bad *** looking... but it really does not look as crazy as the pictures looked.

if you study the pictures carefully, you can tell. here's a hint... pictures number 1 is as high as the car got. there was no way it was going to flip.

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