In reply to codrus: The 944 nearly spun coming g out of a fast corner, and rolled backwards into the path the sho was attempting to dodge it. Or so the story goes.
In reply to codrus: The 944 nearly spun coming g out of a fast corner, and rolled backwards into the path the sho was attempting to dodge it. Or so the story goes.
The bending of the car is absorbing energy. Make the cadge to ridged and all the energy gets transferred to the driver. I can not speak for he seat mounting but it looks like everything else did its job. There was a good balance between cadge rigidity and yet at a certain point you want things need to bend / crumple. I don't have a problem with what I am seeing in that car. The car gave up its life to save the driver. It was a big hit and everyone walked away. It was a good / bad day!!
I am kinda late to the conversation. But, here's how the Porsche got caved in.
Here's my view of the Porsche spinning right in front of me in turn 10.
Here's the view from SHO that T-bones him.
The SHO driver wasn't looking ahead and accelerating before clearing the incident.
racerxr650r wrote: The SHO driver wasn't looking ahead and accelerating before clearing the incident.
What a rough situation. Can't really blame the guy, though. I'm sure he was dealing with whatever made the other 2 spin, checking his immediate surroundings for more spinning traffic, then looking up too late at a 944 that appears (imho) to be trying to drive off the course.
This is why nascar has spotters.
While certainly not intentional, this was definitely avoidable.
The SHO driver sees the spun Porsche in the track ahead and plans a route around it on the right side following the car in front of him. However, he is on the gas accelerating and looking at his mirrors at the carnage behind him instead of focusing ahead. He is still knowingly in the middle of the incident and he is racing for position. This is the most significant contributing factor of the incident.
Secondly, the Porsche driver decides to slowly and predictably move off the racing line where he had predictably (two feet in, didn't collect me) come to a stop. He ended up in a place where just lifting as you approached could cause a spin. This is why I dove off track to avoid, lifting and braking would have spun me into him. This is also why the Lexus spun behind me. I can't fault the Porsche driver for wanting to get off the racing line.
I wasn't faulting the P driver what so ever, I just added the imho because in saying he moved people can get defensive. I can't help but feel that the right thing to do here is to chalk it all up to greased track, and call it a day.
Also, What is with Jalopnik lately? I mean, I never really enjoyed them, but lately I have to wonder: Are they trying to make a name as professional second-guessers of amateur racers?
I was the SHO driver.
The biggest mistake was not slowing down more or getting back on the gas after seeing the 944. I was in second gear, which maxes out about 60.
I looked to the right to make sure their wasn't anyone there, because I decided to go right. I could care less as to the spin behind me, I just saw it. There were a lot of cars around at the time and it was hard to keep track of who was were.
It probably would have been easier to go left, wouldn't have had to make such a sharp turn, could have drifted out, but I didn't know who was there. The ZX2 maybe?
A bunch of if's, if I had slowed down, if the 944 hadn't moved, if I would have gone left. There's no time to think it over, you make a decision and go with it.
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