[Eric_K]

This is a wild video of an incident(s) at what I think is the FIA GT race from Oulton Park. It is crazy. I can't believe no one was hurt.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvc0Cij7zA

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[sasilverbullet]

Yikes!!!!

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[RPM]

Unbelievable. That one corner worker up against the Armco barely escaped with his life!

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[TheMirror]

Rule number 1 for corner working - NEVER take your eyes off of the oncoming traffic for more than a few seconds.

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[sguy]

Rule number two for corner workers - always have a barrier between you and cars on track at speed.

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[apex]

hurts to watch.

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[ether_joe]

is driving under those weather conditions actually common? It seems really nutso to me.



That said we only hear about the crashes, right. . .

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[PJS917]

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.

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[au968]

[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...

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[ether_joe]

[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 (?)

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[Eric_K]

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.

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[Jim Child]

[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.

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