ninjabones

and turn 2, 3, 5, and 9... was just there this weekend. Very fun track (one of my favorites)... but really really crazy how in this day and age, there are still a possibility to be launched into the air by huge banked dirt mounds, and then follow it up by being impaled by trees when you land. Oh yeah, don't forget about the critters (ground hog and deer both suffered premature deaths this weekend, along with some major car damage). corvette owner may still be cleaning the deer guts and feces from under his fingernails and from inside his belly button. Really nasty.

Sean F

Summit must be the rollover king of the US

FrankyV

Having hit one there, I worry more about the deer. Seems to be there is at least one deer strike or near miss every weekend there.

Rob in VA

+1

gums

Cevert was not decapitated. As stated, he wound up upside down atop the armco, and was pretty much cut in half. Koenig was decapitated, and is pretty much the topic of that early scene in "Rush". The armco was also found to be at fault, as it was improperly installed. In the aftermath, thousands of washers were inserted to the fasteners to correct it.

Possibly, but only since Bridgehampton is gone.

gbuff

Just received the new MotorSport mag and Cevert is featured to commemorate
40 years since his passing.

Gary

stownsen914

The Koenigg accident was pretty crazy. Some reports described that it should have been a minor accident if the armco hadn't folded when his car hit. There are pictures out there showing the poor guy's head siting on top of the car, separated from his body ...

Koenigg raced Porsches for both the Martini team and the Porsche factory in '73 and '74. He was one of the drivers of the Carrera RSR turbo (precursor to the 935) in 1974.

gums

It occurred at the toe of the boot, but not at the entrance to it, a little further up and around.

chrisc

Was standing on hill right above it, something I will never forget. He hit the end of the end of the trackside armco barrier that slightly overlapped the outside barrier, which created an opening for safety vehicles. Another car, don't recall whom, might have been the M Donohue car, was pushed back through the opening earlier in the race. Speculation was if he had hit the solid barrier and not at an opening it might not of been so bad. It was very bad and obviously catastrophic but I don't recall seeing anything detached like a helmut. The story at the time was he was not removed as New York state law prevented moving a decedent until the corner could investigate the site. They decided the car was not in a dangerous place so they put a tarp over the car until the end of the race when the corner came in by helicopter. That wouldn't happen today, would have been red flagged for sure.

dan212

The ones with oil or anti-freeze on them.......

gums

Pretty horrific, Chris, and you describe the scene very accurately. The overlap for vehicle access has since been removed, but this is very much how the librarian at the Motor Racing Library that I was recently speaking with described it. He also mentioned that the Donohue car was in the vicinity.

tarzwell

from that crazy guy Tarzwell in Ontario well you did suck at turn 2 sorry , lol good old times but then again in the mini or moke turn one was flat and a little lift for 2 at 1:40"s

btwyx

There are not many dangerous corners on tracks I've been on. The closest is turn 10 at Sonoma. Turn 9 is the fastest part of the track, and its the entry to turn 10, while you're aimed directly at a concrete wall which is only 30ft from the track.

I got an appreciation for this when I had a wobble in the middle of turn 9, while doing about 100 (aimed at a concrete wall).

The turn 11 hairpin at Sonoma is also a little intimidating, if you don't get your braking right, the wall wraps around the corner. Similarly, the top of the corkscrew at Laguna, there's not a lot of run off, and the hill crest at 7 tempts you to mess up your braking. I've seen pros crash there, its not pretty.

winders

The only concrete wall near turn 10 is well after the turn on the short straight between turns 10 and 11. The entirety of the outside of turn 10 is lined with tire barriers. As is most of turn 11. The exit of 11 points you right at a concrete wall but this is the slowest corner on the track.

chartersb

Speaking of Mosport.... The faster you go the faster and further you can go off. Mosport is really fast. It's a pro driver favorite. There's a Club Race weekend there August 8-10. It's a joint event with PCA races, BMWCC races and a solo DE group. Man up and show up.