I guess this happeed back in Houston sometime in 2000. I freaked when I saw this, not for the faint of heart. I hope everyone was OK after this.

 

yea Ive seen that before....pretty sick though...i still think people shouldn't be standing around so close

 

what is the point of posts like this? i don't get it. any sport is dangerous. i've seen some pretty gruesome **** just watching a basketball game. why do we have as humans have to enjoy other's suffering? i could understand if it was a before un-known risk, but come on, if someone doesn't realize that standing really close to a car being driven at it's handling limit is dangerous having them see this video won't help. to this thread. waste of band-width if you ask me.

post some videos of people driving at their best, or at least them screwing up in a funny way. i don't need to see more death and destruction. i've got channel 5 for that.

nate

 

This was posted last year here. As far as location, I can tell you for certain it was not in the Houston area....

 

Let me set a few things straight.....

We know this sport has inherent risk, we dont need to glorify it.

The event was at Bowling Green, for some C5 Corvette thing they were doing. It was not a SCCA event, the spectators should not have been next to the course, and the course should have been much further away from the curbing - i dont know the exact number but i want to say 75 feet.

Nearly every scca event i've run has been "safe" in that the proximity from fixed objects is maximized the the course designer does things like follows around light poles instead of toward them. A few non-scca events i have run do not follow these guidelines.... Irregardless, things will happen.

 

edited: RJ covered it

 

IIRC the SCCA course rules say that you can't come within 50 feet of a stationary object to the side of the car, and no closer than 75 feet from a stationary object that would be directly in front of the car at any time. That is just from memory of a conversation I had with an SCCA official a couple of years ago...


Matt

 

ok, thanks for clarifying

 

Sorry for posting this link, I'm glad it was removed before I had a chance to remove it. I found it one another board & it really bothered me. Again, I'm sorry for starting any problems.