hacker-pschorr

Luckily nobody was seriousally injured.




From another car:

http://vimeo.com/15301712

ltc

I am somewhat confused and don't know SCCA rules.

Wouldn't it be better to simply stop and not drive thru the debris, assuming that race control would restart the race based on qualifying grid (since a lap wasn't even completed)?

Or will the restart be based on the running order behind the pace/safety car?

Circuit Motorsports

Since you have no clue if the red flag is coming out the smartest move is the get on through.

The Runoffs are generally run as a time based event. You get X laps or X minutes whatever comes first as the day is very full and the next group needs to get out.

Even for the average big nasty crash, oiling of the track, etc this year they just ran under a FCY. This incident was red flagged but not so much for carnage on course but that 2 of the jersey barriers were damaged to the point of needing replacment.

It was an unfortunate incident as it really had noone to blame. The second place car had a transmission failure on the 2nd-3rd shift at the worst possible time.

ltc

Thanks for the explanation.
It just looked like a certain red flag situtaiton, given damage to the cars and track.

Potomac-Greg

What an expensive and disappointing incident. One report says it was a missed shift on the front row that led to the whole mess.

quickxotica

0:17 through 0:24... an expensive 7 seconds.

va122

wow that sucks!

analogmike

Looks like the start in my group at the Lime Rock Historic races a few weeks ago. But we have metal cars so they stayed together.

North Coast Cab

Lots too see and hear from multiple angles over on corvetteforum.com
Terrible loss for 7+ cars, but luckily nobody was seriously hurt. A friend and fellow racer's car was destroyed, destroyed. Frame, all four shock, all four wheels......

fatbillybob

I race that class and would have been in that race. I got friends in that carnage. Luckily no one was hurt but of course cars have been lost. SCCA is very safe but we are racing. At the runoffs the best of the country in each national class is there. Some of these guys are our pros of the future so that's the level of competition. All those racers have lots of experience there was no bonehead mistake just bad luck at the wrong time caught the field out. SCCA has an amazing medical set-up with trackside MD there to approve the start of racing and ACLS trackside not to mention their own extraction team. I have not raced with other groups with that level medical support.

mark kibort

ugly! (previous message removed)
Who hasnt had a guy miss a gear in front of them on the start. kind of an over reaction that led to a pretty bad mishap for all. Looks like it was Heinrcy that had the mishift or break. (#35 white vet)
the entire class was killed off. Wow!