Unbelievable. That one corner worker up against the Armco barely escaped with his life!
Rule number 1 for corner working - NEVER take your eyes off of the oncoming traffic for more than a few seconds.
Rule number two for corner workers - always have a barrier between you and cars on track at speed.
is driving under those weather conditions actually common? It seems really nutso to me.
That said we only hear about the crashes, right. . .
Makes my spin at Oulton on the exit to that corner very trivial. I used to Marshal
at Oulton many years ago and I spent many an hour in rain like that, thankfully I never
saw anything as bad as that.
[quote name='ether_joe' post='28577' date='Dec 1 2006, 06:19 AM']is driving under those weather conditions actually common? It seems really nutso to me.
That said we only hear about the crashes, right. . .[/quote]
In those conditions, you are very lucky not to have crashes. If the field is on slicks and you get a heavy downpour, the track is as slippery as ice and everyone becomes a passenger on the way to their own road smash <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/sad.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />
Amazing how much of the cars was removed in each crash - they seemed relatively slow impacts, but the damage was massive...
[quote name='au968' post='28588' date='Nov 30 2006, 04:32 PM']Amazing how much of the cars was removed in each crash - they seemed relatively slow impacts, but the damage was massive...[/quote]
I was surprised about that also. Then I started thinking, these cars are so stripped down to save weight that there's probably not much in the way of body panels and reinforcement left (?)
I don't think any of these cars had steel body work so it gets knocked off pretty easily. 2500lbs even going just 60mph would still have a pretty big wallop - if it hit something stationary. The corner worker is unbelievably lucky. For some reason, it reminds of that toyota tacoma commercial where the truck is hit by a meteor and keeps going.
[quote name='ether_joe' post='28577' date='Nov 30 2006, 08:49 PM']is driving under those weather conditions actually common? It seems really nutso to me.
That said we only hear about the crashes, right. . .[/quote]
Racing in heavy rain is not that uncommon. I've done it myself quite a few times. One time was in conditions that were probably worse than what you see in this video. The issue is being caught out on slicks in a sudden downpour like in the video. Fortunately when I've raced in the rain I've always had enough notice to be running a rain capable tire. That makes all the difference.