Lets get the visuals coming in…
Working on the race video, but put this short clip together to show how my afternoon ended…
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I have more videos coming, but in the interim, please don’t take turn 12 like this
What the video doesn’t show was that I was working the wheel, hard, to keep it off the wall. That almost ended in tears.
Jon62
#3
Here’s my in-car from Saturday’s race. A good look at the melee that started the crash, and some really good racing throughout.
There were a few tense moments this weekend. Coming down the hill sideways was certainly one of them. I’ve never had the pleasure of doing that before, and I hope that was the last time. I kept taking little bites out of the turn to go faster and faster, and I might have pussed out right at the moment of truth when I spun, transferring just enough weight off the back to make things go bad.
allin
#8
Great save Scott! Mine starts with watching Rob slip on gators at turn in on 12 and then my rear snap spinning down then hill. It ends with a mini van taking my wheel out, but fairly uneventful relatively speaking.
Its possible that people watching the video have never had to save a car that is more than halfway spun, so I will use this time as a little clinic. As a note, done right, its still a crapshoot as to whether you are going to eat the wall, as there is only so much you can do on a wet track or on wet grass. Done wrong and you destroy your car for sure.
I’m assuming that all of you turn the wheel into the spin, thats what you are supposed to do. When my car started to spin, rest assured the wheel was cranked to the left in the save attempt. Problem being, it was wet and the car was too far gone to save, so we go to plan b. Once the car is more than 90 degree spun, meaning you are more than perpendicular with the direction you wanted to go, you have to reverse the steering wheel (here, crank it to the right), and get off the brakes and get the tires rolling. If you keep the brakes fully locked up, the car will continue in the direction it was going (into the wall). The goal is to get the car to whip the other direction, away from the wall. If I would have kept the wheel turned left the whole time, it would have eaten the concrete wall for sure. Once you get the car going the direction you want, even if that is sideways to the track but going the right direction, lock the car down and it will continue to go that direction. Try to visualize this in your head a few times before you actually need it. It can make the difference between a fun story and a trail of tears.
harnems
#11
This was the Saturday race from my point of view. The drama starts about thirty seconds in and you can see the whole first lap incident unfold in front and in my rear view mirror.
Fun weekend all in all for me.
RAAW_Motorsports
#12
No video to show this weekend but it was exciting! Was able to successfully flatten the drivers side of the #414 Purple car (BRAND NEW CAR) with a little help from the bridge concrete barrier at turn 11 during a damn “FUN” race on Friday. Great way to start a weekend. Qualified decent for both the Thunder and the Lighting race in the copper car. Was comfortably in the lead for the Thunder race when I started to notice the temp gauge moving slightly upward from normal. Not long after I started having a slight power loss. After being passed by three cars, the motor finally let go coming out of 10B and I coasted into the paddock. Car #2 now done! I had to start the Lightning race to lock in second place for the season so I ran home to grab my wife’s DE car which fortunately had a 2014 inspection done earlier this year. Started the race, Burberry headlight covers and all, in last position and was fortunate enough to miss the Melee in turn 3-4 by only inches. Almost had my third car for the weekend! Finished fourth.
Saturday night was awesome. Aaron took Rookie of the year and I took home the second place overall trophy. To top it off, my wife won a free weekend to CMP and my youngest son won a free weekend to Road Atlanta.
After Friday and Saturday’s great luck, I decided to not race my wife’s car on Sunday. Just didn’t want to have three large projects for the off season. Was able to watch Aaron run in the two races on Sunday and he had an incredible run in the Thunder race. Certainly the best racing he has had. Wish I could have been out there with him.
Congrats to Sandro on the Championship and to Lako for the UUC driver of the year.
allin
#13
First I want to say that from a competition perspective I loved the rain. I did pretty good in it and finally felt like I was hitting a good pace. I incredibly qualified 5th of PTD people and 3rd in SpecE30. I felt comfortable in the low traction conditions (contrary to this vid, ha) and was really looking forward to the races in Thunder and Lightning. Sadly it was not to be. I cause my own issues in thunder as you’ll see and in Lightning I got caught up(albeit barely compared to others) in the turn 4 lap 1 group hug. I was also proud to be a part of such a great group Saturday night at the awards and it was a pleasure to see everyone awarded after a long and hard season.
Here’s my spin vid. This was Thunder
http://youtu.be/CIqa9InWr84
Ranger
#16
[quote=“allin” post=79752]First I want to say that from a competition perspective I loved the rain. I did pretty good in it and finally felt like I was hitting a good pace. I incredibly qualified 5th of PTD people and 3rd in SpecE30. I felt comfortable in the low traction conditions (contrary to this vid, ha) and was really looking forward to the races in Thunder and Lightning. Sadly it was not to be. I cause my own issues in thunder as you’ll see and in Lightning I got caught up(albeit barely compared to others) in the turn 4 lap 1 group hug. I was also proud to be a part of such a great group Saturday night at the awards and it was a pleasure to see everyone awarded after a long and hard season.
Here’s my spin vid. This was Thunder
http://youtu.be/CIqa9InWr84[/quote]
Dang, that could have been a lot worse.
Road Atlanta in the rain. We should all have our heads examined.
allin
#18
I now have GoPro Hero4 set at 1080p wide with 60fps. After converting I load the full resolution to YouTube. I’m going to start dabbling with 4k soon.
Are you asking because it’s good or bad? Let me know I always like it to be as good as it can be for family and friends.
Benny
#19
Ranger, where is your video? And where is Fred’s video? Fred should have the whole turn 3 mess on his camera. Mine quit working as soon as we pulled off the grid. Figures.
Ranger
#20
I worked on my video today but the commentary got goobered up so I have to fix it tomorrow. It doesn’t show much. The camera catches AR’s spin in the distance but the camera is to my right so it can see things that I couldn’t. I was glued to your rear end. Because of the rain and all the other cars, it was hard to see much thru the other cars windows. I could see thru your windows somewhat, but I couldn’t really see thru the windows of the car in front of you. Since AR was 3? cars in front of you, what was going on with him was, to me, invisible.
The appearance of AR broadside in front of you took me totally by surprise. In a microsecond you were knocked left by the impact into AR, and I helped you along by clipping your RR. I stood on the brakes but since I was practically touching your bumper when it started, I only had 12’ of braking before I hit AR with my RF.
That’s a long way of saying…all my video shows is your rear. Then suddenly you’re gone, there’s AR, bang. Elapsed time 0.25sec.
I’ll try to load up the relevant scrap tonight.
Later edit. Wasn’t that hard to fix after all. https://vimeo.com/114076338