[quote=“Ranger” post=58659]Here is the video of the Porsche dumping it’s oil just before turn 1. You’ll see it losing control in it’s own oil and them moving off the racing surface. Then other cars come thru, some seeing the oil and taking an inside line, others hitting the oil and only barely staying on the track. Finally I come along and spin into the wall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e1pC0yGQV4
As you may recall there was some contraversy about flags associated with the oil spill. I talked to the S/F flaggers after the incident and they said that the turn 1 flagger never told them about the oil so they just thru stationary yellow to alert us about the Porsche off at 1. They said that if they’d a known about the oil in the braking zone they’d a thrown waving yellow and debris. Waving yellow because of the seriousness of oil in a high speed braking zone.
In contrast to that report, when I talked to higher, I was told that S/F was waving yellow and debris and therefore it was my fault for not paying attention to the flags.
I’ve since seen a couple videos of those last 2 laps of the race and S/F is doing exactly what they told me they were doing.
It doesn’t look like much of an impact from this angle, but at the time it felt so hard that I thought my whole front end was stove in.
Fortunately damage turned out to be relatively minor. A bumper shock and it’s mount was bashed into the frame a bit. Now that the car is back from a repaint at Maaco, I was continuing the effort to unscrew the bumper shock tonight. I was doing some of the worst welding you’ll ever see when I paused to see why water seemed to be dripping from the front of the motor.
It turns out that my fancy double-pass radiator was holed in the crash. Some combo of the front of the car being slammed back and the engine moving forward due to inertia. I’d just replaced the damned thing because I holed it in the CMP crash. I’m spending more on radiators than I am tires. Grumble.[/quote]
Scott you just posted the only good video of my trip through the oil and I thank you. I will go to my grave saying there was a white and a yellow at start finish, and that yellow was not waving!! The guys in one where sitting on their dicks!! The debris flag had been at S/f most of the race. It was out when the cone or whatever it was got thrown onto the track, then it came back out late in the race when someone hit it and moved it closer to the racing line. Even if we missed the flags, control should have taken this much more serious!! If you watch the video Fred posted earlier the dude in the 944 was out of his car in the gravel trap and walking around!!
Either way I now have proof to show my buddies that Sh!tting your pants is cool :woohoo: I’m also patting myself on the back for what looks like really good driving on my part :unsure:
And yes I did lose a position!!
