Bad day at the track for a 350

[Jbraun2828]

A really bad day today for a guy at the track. There was some debris on the track and he swerved to miss it and lost control sliding through the grass into a tire wall. It was cold and the track was slick all day. The spot he went off you’re typically running 95-100 mph. He was super fast all day and kicking my ass by 4-5 seconds every lap. I feel really bad for him, younger guy not sure if he’s on here or not.

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[jmn444]

Crazy stuff man. Nice meeting you today!

 

[Davesvt2000]

That sucks.

What track ? Gingerman ?

 

[jmn444]

Yeah between 4 and 5

 

[Jbraun2828]

Yeah man, nice meeting you as well.

 

[Carpenater]

Hope he had track insurance.

 

[stanglife]

That does suck. There have been arguments about this...and I don't want to rehash the issue but generally, it's considered proper etiquette to NOT send pictures of track misfortunes to others.

 

[Jbraun2828]

done

 

[stanglife]

Good of you. Yeah, it's always interesting to see and we mostly post these with best wishes in mind but we don't know of the persons insurance situation, injuries or any of that stuff. Just best to leave it alone for a bit so we don't make anything worse for someone who is obviously having a tough time already.

 

[key01]

Well, that sucks. Even with track insurance the deductibles can be very high ( 10% of the policy limit). Be careful out there!

 

[Narwaniec594]

And gingerman its consider as a safer ans very open track. Between 4-5? Hmm there is no tire wall there really unless he slid all the way through main straight and hit the main wall.
Thats sucks really. Hope kid is ok

 

[jmn444]

And gingerman its consider as a safer ans very open track. Between 4-5? Hmm there is no tire wall there really unless he slid all the way through main straight and hit the main wall.
Thats sucks really. Hope kid is ok

1st incident was a vette into the wall at 11, he/she then drove around and left debris near the kink/4, the 350 swerved to avoid the debris and put a couple tires into the grass on the right, overcorrected, then crossed to the left and went off and hit the tires/flag station that is between 4 and 5.... super bad luck from what i could tell.

 

[Narwaniec594]

Ohh nooo. Thats a bad luck hitting this flag station. Dont know how big the debris was, but sometimes its better to let go the gas slightly and hit debris than do sudden movement at 100 mph. But again at that speed things come at ou really fast

 

[jmn444]

agreed... hard to know what the right choice is in a split second!

 

[MikeR397]

that’s no good! I didn’t realize track events were still happening in Michigan. I did some October ones last year with starting temps in the 30s and on cup 2 it’s like driving in the rain for the first 2-3 laps until tire temps warm substantially. I personally find gingerman to be a slippery track (and my least favorite) compared to grattan/M1/Waterford/pitt as that is the only track I am perpetually fighting the rear sliding out, especially the off camber downward sloping last turn before the first straight, hard to get a clean exit. I really don’t get it, been there 5 or 6 times and never felt like I have grip there on at least 2 or 3 parts of the track.

jmn444 we need to meet up sometime next year at a track day — it’s likely we already have just never chatted.

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