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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: OT: For those waiting breathlessly for news of my racing weekend.
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 22:28:03 -0700
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Well... ...it came to an abrupt end at about 1:25pm today,

Our race had only just started, and at turn 3 of lap 1, the car 
immediately ahead of me spun, and while I was able to get my speed off 
to the point where all we did was bump tires...

....there was nothing I could do about the Formula Vee following me...

....who hit might right rear tire hard enough to fold up and/or break 
every piece of the right year suspension...

....and who ended up half on top of my car with his left front tire 
immediately beside my head.

I haven't seen the video from his car yet (we have to have video cameras 
now), nor have I heard from the steward of the meeting about his 
conversation with the Vee driver, but to my mind, this was just a racing 
incident.

Conditions were marginal--there had been rain for qualifying but it was 
drying out, but all three of the fast(ish) FF driver determined that we 
would all go out on the same tires, and the very last-minute choice was 
to run on slicks. 15 minutes before our race, it looked like the better 
call would be rain tires, but then the sun came out, and with other race 
groups before us dissipating the water on the track,  we call changed to 
dry tires.

And this change proved too much for Martin's traction in turn 3.

With me running close behind him, he spun 1/4 of the way around, and 
there was just no way I could have tightened my line to go to his left. 
So I moved as much to the right as I dared (with a wall preventing a 
complete off-track avoidance, and hoped for the best. And I nearly 
pulled it off.

Unfortunately, the FV running behind me had opted for wet tires, and so 
had better grip in the mid-corner phase, and (despite not having seen 
the video or heard the report) I don't think there was any way he could 
have tightened his line enough to avoid me.

The end result was this:

<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y9CbWveqC2PS5R3yR0vahcfqMSQ7cV4d/view?usp=share_link>

Bottom of the line: bad luck.