Sorry to the Black R I passed while spinning through the hairpin this past weekend.

Did anyone happen to see, or better yet catch a pic or video of my crazy ~100mph spin off the track, across the hairpin and up near the wall? It was during the 2nd Sunday Intermediate 1 session. If so, I would like to hear about it, or see the pics/vids!!

 

I was a few cars behind you, and only saw you once you had stopped.

How the hell did that happen???

 

me too

 

Will! I forgot to email ya (even with your email addy sittin' right in front of me).

 

Is this will who was parked next to Double A Ron and me? The one who moved up from beginner to Int 1 on sunday?

 

Yes! See how this guy post ******?

 

Nice Title. LOL.

 

someone in a black R flew off turn 10?

 

I thought only Tom went off the course!!!

 

I saw the spin, it looked absolutely ruthless. I was right behind the black R and coming up fast on both cars when it happened.

I'm glad you didn't hit the wall.

 

so who was it?

 

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I thought it was Kyle, at elast in out group. What happened, I leave early and MORE of you guys go turf stompin?

I just watched the Vid of Chris in the ATS car when that white R lost it in front of him... All I gotta say is that Chris's reactions and reflex were on point, him going off for that 20 seconds was the better choice than the other options.


A.

 

Lift off oversteer is the easiest way to spin the R IMOP

 

the white r did some braking to a big lift and it spun
i got the ats civic / R spin on video. itll be up in 2 or so weeks

 

Wasn't me.

Only time I went off was on Saturday during the last session. Didn't slow down enough for T4 with the well worn Panthers (thanks again Aaron - I wouldn't have even made that session without those pads ) and overcooked the turn. I thought it wasn't wise to try and save it so I just went off the track to do a controlled stop.

Kyle - who WILL be on race compound pads at the next HPDE

 

didn't see it, but came up fast behind right after it happened.. all i saw was you up the hill by the wall, lots of R's slamming on the brakes, and crap all over the track..

glad you were ok though.. as far up as you were, we couldn't tell if you went into the wall or not..

 

That was me in that black type-r and I must say I almost shat my pants. My friend was taking pics but did not snap of off then but he did get one of your car by the tire wall. Good **** I bet your instructor was scared off his ***. glad to see you did not roll because I thought you were for sure.

 

kitkatR...
Yeah, sorry about that. I thought I was going to spin right over you!! You must have waited to turn in for me, yes? Thank God you saw me coming.

Can you send me a copy of the pic of my car up by the wall?


Modified by BUTTER at 8:26 PM 4/24/2003


Modified by BUTTER at 8:26 PM 4/24/2003

 

My instructor and I were wondering how the hell anyone went that far off course!


Glad you were ok

 

Yes, it was me who spun. I was parked next to Aaron near the Mugen truck. I was also the guy who moved from the Beginner group to the Intermediate 1 group Sunday morning.

Anyway, it went like this...
I was moving pretty good down the back stretch moving up through VTEC in 4th. The black R ahead of me (now known to be kitkatR) tapped the brakes before the kink (Turn 9); I didn't. 1st Mistake: I watched kitkatR turn in instead of watching the apex of Turn 9 go whizzing past. Obviously, this left me a little late. I was getting seriously "sucked" off the side of the track toward all the cones telling you to stop for the hairpin. 2nd Mistake: I broke where I was braking all weekend, unfortunately I was still not settled from be so late through the kink. I started to counter steer while sliding to the left. 3rd Mistake (I think they always come in 3's): I held the counter steer too long and the car whipped back and spun to the right.

The rest was pretty much like a carnival ride... Upsidedown dirt "waterfalls", not really knowing what direction I was headed, praying I was not going to go backward into a wall. After spinning off, back on, across the hairpin (I think), back off, and up toward the wall... the car managed to stop spinning enough to see the wall coming... SEE THE WALL COMING!! Again with the luck, we stopped short. I don't think Warren was very happy with my performance; it was his first ride with me, and our first "hot lap", too.

 

Mistakes happen. Glad you made it out alright.

 

oh man what a ride! glad you made it out OK

 

wow BUTTER you are from exeter?
we had a sweet caravan going to the expo. to bad i see you are sort of new to the board.
glad to know there is another R within an hour of me.

 

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more than that. This one, D and Sean at least lol

warren's quote at one time sunday "my students are trying to kill me" as he ran to his next students car.

warren owns