Seth Thomas

Hey guys. I feel like a lot of my post on here are recently have been about safety equipment and the importance of having the right equipment. This is a wreck that happened to one of my close friends, Mark Pombo, who races for Kia in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. Mark is in the hospital still with broken bones in his face and a broken collarbone. This was a well built car with all the right safety equipment in the car including window net, left side driver's net, and new belts. Mark was wearing a Stilo helmet with Hans. As you can see all the right safety was in to help protect him and that is probably the reason he walked away from the accident. Most of the cars you guys drive on here are faster than the Kia in a straight line so it is very important you guys think about safety as much as you do going fast.

Matt Romanowski

Wow, that was a huge hit. Glad to hear he's mostly ok and going to be fine.

gums

Brake failure?
Always glad when the guy is OK.

IPguy

Canada is a scary corner when you have a brake issue, don't ask me how I know. Luckily, it was no where near that bad. Hope he gets well quickly.

Veloce Raptor

WOW

gums

I think that was the kink, not Canada.

Seth Thomas

No that is Canada Corner. There are no tire barriers or gravel traps to skate over in te kink.

Eifeler

It didn't look like much speed was scrubbed off while he was sliding sideways.

Glad to hear he's recovering well.

No HTwo O

Hope he's 110% again soon.

Surfbum

Wish him all the best towards a complete recovery.

sbelles

Nice job not taking out either of the other cars!

mglobe

Wow, glad he's ok. A good reminder to all of us to take installation, care, and feeding of all of our safety equipment seriously. Glad he's ok. Thanks for posting Seth.

RSRRacer

Wow.. A 997 cup probably carrying 30 more MPH there. And I would venture to say most club racers dont have the saftey equipment this guy had.

Also, a very selfless act avoiding the car in front. If he had hit him dead in the rear, he would have likely been better off.... though this was probably just a reflex reaction.

93 FireHawk 968

Holy sh@#..... Glad he was not seriously hurt. Plus 1 for focus on making sure your car has the latest safety equipment.

pontifex4

I was thinking this, too. He managed to avoid both the Mini and the Mustang. I hope he makes a fast and full recovery.