Surfbum

Anyone have video of the Green Hornet taking out the Muscle Milk car during the race?
If my memory is correct, very similar circumstances.

GuyIncognito

this is the only one I can find.

if anyone has a link to more 2012 PLM footage, please let me know!

multi21

If he was focused on what was in front of him, he should have seen the waving blue flags.

Word is that Takuma Sato was the driver .....

Glen

I guess we can now all empathize with the stewards in various series... Not as easy as we think to assign pure responsibility in a car to car wheel
To wheel contact scenario even with video from several viewpoints.
Looks like a racing incident to me, p car got a bit loose on curbing, snaps a bit, he tries to correct. Right rear is laying down a stripe before contact so he's got a bit of cleanup and in the meantime N car is making a pass. So overtaking car has respOnsibilty to make a clean pass and car being overtaken has to give racing room....in pca only of course...

So if you are the pca steward, who gets the 13....?

Probably best cut the video prior to shooting the finger in pca also before you share with the stewards...

Sean F

Problem is this car has a rep in the paddock according to what the announcers said. Once in isolation maybe, multiple times during a season - different story.

multi21

+1. Grojean didn't get a one race suspension because of one isolated incident. An accumulation of incidents gets you a rep and more eyes on you.

gums

Incidentally, to back up a few pages, Scott Liebler's unfortunate fatality was the circuit's first, in over 20 years of operation at the time.

mglobe

PCA or not, it was an ill advised pass on the part of the DeltaWing, particularly given that this was practice.

Derek@TRG

Gunnar is very lucky the roll hoop did not dig into the dirt!! his helmet was so close to the ground.

Anybody here remember the Jeff Clinton incident @ Homestead??

GuyIncognito

yes, sadly RIP Jeff.

he was a St. Louis guy, I watched him race in SCCA regionally (GT2 or GT3, IIRC?) on his way up the ladder. good driver, cool guy.

gums

Was Clinton the sports racer or open cockpit prototype incident that flipped?

GuyIncognito

he was racing an open cockpit Lola in the early days of Grand Am (before the DP)

as I recall the accident, he flipped in a gravel trap going from the front straight to infield at Homestead and the roll hoop failed.

lordpantsington

Having just looked through the rulebook, 80mm is the required clearance to a line connecting the roll hoop to the body. 80mm is not much.

cgfen

what an a$$.
he causes a shunt and then flips off the shuntee?

(his right arm DOEs seem unnaturally long...)

Craig

gums

That's a bird (or "shuntee") if I've ever seen one.
Vent hose my ***.