When brakes fail at COTA...
#17
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its natural to start to s turn to scrub speed. it does help.
pre crash there is a delicate balance of trying to get sideways to get all 4 tires to create , at least, lock up resistance, vs chance of rolling, vs straight in, and hitting a wall and facing 100mph to 0 death decel
for me, it was taking an un-needed chances with old stock brake lines. others , just don't look at the braided lines and either don't change them at 5 year cycles or they get damaged without signs.
pretty scary and helpless feeling when they go out though
pretty scary and helpless feeling when they go out though
#19
Burning Brakes
#20
its natural to start to s turn to scrub speed. it does help.
for me, it was taking an un-needed chances with old stock brake lines. others , just don't look at the braided lines and either don't change them at 5 year cycles or they get damaged without signs.
pretty scary and helpless feeling when they go out though
for me, it was taking an un-needed chances with old stock brake lines. others , just don't look at the braided lines and either don't change them at 5 year cycles or they get damaged without signs.
pretty scary and helpless feeling when they go out though
While no where near as problematic as the video, I experienced brake failure when my caliper seals failed on one of my fronts as the end of the front straight at Roebling. Fortunately, I was able to slow a bit and go off cleanly without damaging anything. Following this experience, I rebuilt all the calipers and replaced at least one of the hard lines when one of the new braided lines did not want to seat well.
Is there suggested cycle interval on the cup cars calipers/lines?
#21
Banned
Those cushy barriers did an amazing job. Wish we had them on the rest of the tracks. I'd pay extra.
#22
Intermediate
Matt
#23
Banned
I keep thinking, shouldn't he have been able to take more speed off by downshifting and by using the handbrake? Or am I way off? Granted, he didn't have much asphalt left in front of him after he found out there were no brakes -- once on the gravel there's not much he could have done. I'm sure he was also concerned about not going sideways too early on the gravel which would have led to a series of rolls with a much more unpredictable ending.
#26
I'm in....
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No, cups don't but even if it was a car built from a street car I'm not sure applying a parking brake (on one rear wheel) would achieve the desired result.
#27
Banned
Then maybe they should have one -- for all four wheels wheels. There's a reason they call it the "emergency brake".
#28
Drifting
#30
The Penguin King
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If it were up to me, I would require the use of a HANS (or equivalent device) for all drivers using harnesses at DE's. Virtuall all racing organizations require them already, but many if not most DE groups will allow folks out with harnesses but no HANS>