Why you should have proper runoff for an Autocross event...
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Wow-three threads of the same thing today. I feel bad for everybody involved.
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Perhaps, but it takes much more talent to autocross at a nationally competitive level than it does to tootle around a track day.adamw said:
That car had already won a ProSolo and a National Tour this year in the hands of a very capable driver.
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Ouch.
All of our locations have a space (grass, etc) that seperates where we run from parked cars. Cars are never parked near the finish like that, ever.
All of our locations have a space (grass, etc) that seperates where we run from parked cars. Cars are never parked near the finish like that, ever.
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...at least one of this magnitude. They lost a Contour a couple years ago, and I saw a car hit the fence a few years back... But those were single car incidents.hatched said:
Even in a properly designed course, things happen. Two years ago at Nationals a lost driver ran an S2000 into another S2000....
MANY years ago we let somebody drive our Formula car and he got his foot stuck under the brake/throttle and he managed to run it into a parked car that was about a billion feet off the course.
We had a worker hit about five years ago here in SFR...
All of those were due to an egregious driver or worker issue and couldn't have been helped with course layout.
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I spy a focus
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f228/bandit027/auto-x/IMG_3008.jpghatched said:
Red hatch on the right.
I'm not familiar with the pedals in a Porsche, but other cars that I've driven had the clutch pedal very close to the brake pedal, so it wasn't out of the question to catch part of the clutch with the left side of your foot. I've also a couple of times hit the brake pedal on my Focus when going for the clutch, but I also have very big feet (size 13-14 shoes). So who knows.
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Yikes! That would have been scary.
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