Crash at Mid Ohio SCCA T2 Nissan (56K will fail)
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unless hes pumping the clutch pedal in that vid, his brakes def went out.
Wouldent the crash have been more viloent of he went straight? He would of hit the tire wall doing 100 plus, alot of g force woulda been created.
Wouldent the crash have been more viloent of he went straight? He would of hit the tire wall doing 100 plus, alot of g force woulda been created.
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On the left side of the video the red & green bar is an accel/decel indicator. As he approaches the braking zone you see it spike red but then drop down and flutter a bit. So he had brakes at least for a split second at the beginning, which means it probably wasn't boiled fluid. Maybe a ruptured line? If he was an experienced SCCA driver I'm sure he'd know to lock them up and try to go off straight, but it's possible that he couldn't lock them up. Dude is lucky to walk away from that.
He had a video setup with an integrated G-force sensor, probably a Chase Cam. Those are not one-piece camcorders like the Hero or Aiptek or garden variety digicam. They use a bullet/lipstick camera mounted to the roll cage and remotely connected to the recording device. At HPDEs I've seen guys just toss their padded recorder bag behind the passenger seat without properly strapping it down, so I can see how it could happen. But he definitely should have secured it for a race. Meh. What's another $500 for a new recorder when you've got to buy a whole new car?
He had a video setup with an integrated G-force sensor, probably a Chase Cam. Those are not one-piece camcorders like the Hero or Aiptek or garden variety digicam. They use a bullet/lipstick camera mounted to the roll cage and remotely connected to the recording device. At HPDEs I've seen guys just toss their padded recorder bag behind the passenger seat without properly strapping it down, so I can see how it could happen. But he definitely should have secured it for a race. Meh. What's another $500 for a new recorder when you've got to buy a whole new car?
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This is at Mid-Ohio, looks like this guy had a similar braking problem. I'm not familiar enough with that track to say for sure if it's the same turn, but it looks like it could be. The track itself has a pronounced upwards slope compared to the ground in the runoff area, which causes cars to become airborne with relative ease.
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This is at Mid-Ohio, looks like this guy had a similar braking problem. I'm not familiar enough with that track to say for sure if it's the same turn, but it looks like it could be. The track itself has a pronounced upwards slope compared to the ground in the runoff area, which causes cars to become airborne with relative ease.
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I'm guessing the right turn after grandstand #2, that's where all the Neons were rolling when I went to the Runoffs several years ago (don't remember, but the 1st gen Neon was still new then..)
Now I'm going to watch the video and see if I was right...
Edit - ...or I could just read page 2.. but IDK if turn 7 and the corner I'm talking about are the same.
#40
/\ IDK.... I have personally never been there. I say turn 7 as that was mentioned in several of the videos posted and two were identical in topography, and safety crew locations.
From the look of the map at long straight with slight dogleg, I'm thinking more around Number 14 - by Grandstand #2. This is also near #22 - Observation Mound - (which would have been a good viewpoint for the photographer to capture footage).
From the look of the map at long straight with slight dogleg, I'm thinking more around Number 14 - by Grandstand #2. This is also near #22 - Observation Mound - (which would have been a good viewpoint for the photographer to capture footage).