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Subject: Re: OT: For those waiting breathlessly for news of my racing weekend.
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 19:18:34 -0400
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On 9/15/24 1:28 AM, Alan wrote:
> 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.

Dang, that's an Ouchie.

Nevertheless beats my weekend project, which started with removing some 
landscaping plants to gain access to replace a failing concrete skim 
coat.  Naturally, there's also some other scope creep discoveries 
involved...

-hh