Z06 coming into corner too hot, can't brake down, goes straight off track (before 10:00 AM; 23 degrees ambient temp - cold track, cold tires (second lap)) straight across 100 feet of grass runoff, launches up 4 ft dirt berm, comes down amidst small trees, right nose first, sumersaults, landing on top. both air bags deploy. Driver and instructor crawl out thru driver side window. bruised and sore, otherwise all right.
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Power oversteer into a tank slapper into a 90 degree right-hand turn, over a curb, through a fence and a "smokey and the bandit" into a lake. Totalled, but driver OK.
From the drivers stand point racing is not that dangerous with todays safety equipment and rules. I can only relate to fun weekend novice drag racing which is very safe. I have seen several racers hit the wall but usually its just cosmetic damage.
Its the no insurance that hurts! Ive seen guys go to jail for insurance fraud saying their car was wrecked in a hit and run on the street or stolen/wrecked and the insurance company found out otherwise.
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From the drivers stand point racing is not that dangerous with todays safety equipment and rules. I can only relate to fun weekend novice drag racing which is very safe. I have seen several racers hit the wall but usually its just cosmetic damage.
Actually, track day cars, and my oval racing standards virtually all road racing cars, have fairly marginal safety equipment.
This poll is for track days (not drags or road racing). However, John Lingenfelter was killed in a drag racing accident in a class around the same as some heavily modified Corvettes and Camaros.
I haven't been to any track days (yet), however I know of 7 (seven) people killed in track day events in 2005.
Saw Porsche Boxster get totalled and flat bedded off of Watkins Glen. It was a cold day in mid May, track was wet and cold (cold enough that it was snowing). He came into the Bus Stop turn at the end of the back straight too hot and put the Boxster into the ARNCO.
Not only did he total his Porsche, the track hit him with the cost to repair the sttel wall...
Most accidents that I have seen at Track Day events are due to driver "cockiness". You are in control of how fast you are going in your own car, you need to put your ego in your pocket, forget about who is passing you, and drive at whatever spped you feel comfortable and in control.
Problems occur when inexperienced drivers let their egos take over because they do not want to be passed, they overdrive their cars and then bad things happen.
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It is always a shame to see someone wreck and/or get hurt. My DE experience is minimal, 8 days at Watkins Glen, but I have seem too many cars wrecked because drivers left thier brain at home.
Best I can recall there were 9 that required more than a Tow Truck to get the vehicles off the property: 6 Porche 911s, 4 BMWs, and an Alpha Romeo.
One guy, in a Novice class I might add, put a borrowed 911 GT3 into the wall about 3/4 the way through the boot.
Another 911 GT3 spun at the top of the esses at well over 100 - backwards into the Armco, fortunately everyone was alright, the car was toast.
The last notable wreck was an M3 that rolled 3 times after the entrance to the Inner Loop (Bus Stop). Nobody was hurt even though the car only had stock belts, the car was likely doing around 70 when things got ugly. It was the day Katrina came through, so to say it was wet is an understatement.
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