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ahhh......turn 9 at Willow.....but had other issues...walking thru it>>
Posted by: VARATECK (1725) on 2009-04-17 16:05:38
In Reply to: OT: Anyone ran Willow Springs track? What happened to this crash? posted by TTEKLORD on 2009-04-16 14:53:08

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The video starts out just before start/finish....
Into turn one the car gets loose due to a bad line and bad car setup (low tire maybe??). He keeps on hammering the car tho....up the hill and down then this idiot flips up his faceshield at T7 and even flippantly says so on the video title. Hes into 8 way offline then into 9 (which is basically a continuation of 8) and then does the classic screw up by running out of track on drivers left at the exit of 9 and puts two off in the dirt (or maybe 4 off more than likely). When your off there in the soft dirt most folks try to correct by cranking more rh to get back on track instead of going straight in the dirt and off the gas to scrub off speeed and then just a bit of brake till the car stabilizes and you go easily back on track. When you crank steering right there the car WILL spin and squrt the car across the track and into the dirt on the other side of the track. If your carrying a lot of speed in the spin and on the throttle even a bit, you will go way out to drivers right and about 100 feet out in the dirt are pretty big rocks and boulders...and a drainage ditch.....so guess what as the video shows. This was made about 9 months ago and I think this video at the end was a real screw up by Stan and Ollie (emergency truck operators) trying to extract the driver out of the window. Thgis gul lived but the car didnt. Just two months or so after this one another driver got killed in a late model Mini doing the very same thing.
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