Do tracks do enough to mitigate the impact of going off?
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Hopefully this will ease your mind about how much runoff room the Glen has...
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It is nice to want safety improvements but we can be as insistent as we want and tracks will not spend the $$ to make the changes we might like. The real question is whether ALL participants would be willing and able to pay an additional $250-$500 per day to fund safety upgrades. We are a drop in the bucket for most tracks and they really don't care all that much if we come back. The ones that do care are the ones who really lack the money to make such changes.
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I see, but I thought he was averaging more than 1.0 per event.......
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We can all agree that improving safety is a good thing but more runoff room isn't necessarily safer. WGI and VIR are similar tracks except for all the Armco. While more cars probably get damaged at the Glen, there might be more severe ones if they could somehow move everything back.
There are also things that tracks do to minimize the chances of offs. Taking some camber out of the off camber at the Glen, changing the hairpin at Sebring, and the redesign of LR come to mind. Fine line to walk there.
There are also things that tracks do to minimize the chances of offs. Taking some camber out of the off camber at the Glen, changing the hairpin at Sebring, and the redesign of LR come to mind. Fine line to walk there.
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Very fine line, isn't it? I'd don't know Watkins Glen, but in general, I'd hate to see tracks take negative camber out to prevent offs. Something like that is part of the challenge of learning to drive.
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When I read the OP, I immediately thought of Laguna Seca. Older track, good elevations changes and a lot of walls. I don't know if there is much they can do at that track. They're always changing for Moto GP etc. too. Of course there is the other extreme of Buttonwillow with massive amounts of run off areas.
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Well yes but I think 2 guys died at BW in the last 5 yrs from rolls. They could still do alot to repack the dirt to the level of the track so that cars are not encouraged to dig in and flip. WSIR could do many things too. Some of the offs at WSIR are like a motocross track with jumps.