Sonoma Raceway 2015 - ambulances, Ferrari's and HANS

[CrystalRedTintcoat]

Wow. This is one mother of a course! Hills and more hills. Blind crests and off camber pavement. Walls and more walls within a few feet of the track. It'll eat you alive.

We had three black flag incidents today requiring ambulances, forklift, and tracking cleaning equipment.

1/Ferrari F430 Challenge caught fire and dumped oil.
2/Brand new 911 GT3 without plates and with the California windshield "I'm brand spanking new" sticker tore up his whole right side and had to be towed out.
3/A mustang cobra and his owner are in need of repair though the owners medical tests came out OK apparently but he may have a super sore neck. The car front ended a wall.

A woman was there with three of her Ferrari's including an Enzo. She didn't wreck any! Gorgeous cars. My god.

I hired a coach knowing how challenging this course can be and not knowing the line. Best thing I could've done. I also bought a Hans at Wine Country Motorsports. With my new BK harness mount bar and Schroth harnesses I was worried the neck could snap in an impact. Good thing I bought it seeing all the issues and crashes today. If you don't have a Hans I highly recommend it.

Here's a short video the one session I recorded it. Comments welcome.

http://youtu.be/-ox-PC5DMJk


-CRT

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[backeddy]

Nice job CRT, I HATE that track....there are scars on every inch of the walls, I like my car too much to run it again. I just book EVERY Laguna Seca day available, it's a tough course too, but without all of the walls. Hope to see you our there sometime. So what color was the cobra? a nice red one?

[R19]

How fast are you? YOU LOOK FAST. Boss footage - thanks!

[CrystalRedTintcoat]

Originally Posted by R19

How fast are you? YOU LOOK FAST. Boss footage - thanks!

I'm not fast really. My G's never went over 1.0 in that video; I'm still learning. And given your car could be eaten alive I was caution.

A couple cars in my intermediate group were faster. An R8 and an open wheel thing. There was a Cayman who I passed by but then passed. Having a coach who knows the track REALLY helped a ton. Oh the cobra had passed me at one point too.


-CRT

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[CrystalRedTintcoat]

Originally Posted by backeddy

Nice job CRT, I HATE that track....there are scars on every inch of the walls, I like my car too much to run it again. I just book EVERY Laguna Seca day available, it's a tough course too, but without all of the walls. Hope to see you our there sometime. So what color was the cobra? a nice red one?

White with blue accents. Nice ride. Nice guy. Feel bad for him.


-CRT

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[Nor Cal ZL1]

Im with Backeddie, Sears Point has way too much concrete everywhere. There is no margin for error anywhere that I know of. Good run Brian, glad to see you played it safe at that place.

[Shark72]

Good job, nice video thanks for sharing!

[markgws6]

Originally Posted by CrystalRedTintcoat

White with blue accents. Nice ride. Nice guy. Feel bad for him.


-CRT

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Was it this one? He was at our last HOD:



Either way I feel bad for him.

[tjea]

CRT, Nice drive. Sears is a very technical track and take a lot of patience.
Installing a HANs requires specific angles and width at the point where the belts engage the HANs to be effective.
http://hansdevice.com/Tech.html

[brokencilence]

Nice driving. I think I'll just stick with Watkins Glen lol.

[Mr. Wyndham]

Originally Posted by CrystalRedTintcoat

Wow. This is one mother of a course! Hills and more hills. Blind crests and off camber pavement. Walls and more walls within a few feet of the track. It'll eat you alive.

We had three black flag incidents today requiring ambulances, forklift, and tracking cleaning equipment.

1/Ferrari F430 Challenge caught fire and dumped oil.
2/Brand new 911 GT3 without plates and with the California windshield "I'm brand spanking new" sticker tore up his whole right side and had to be towed out.
3/A mustang cobra and his owner are in need of repair though the owners medical tests came out OK apparently but he may have a super sore neck. The car front ended a wall.

A woman was there with three of her Ferrari's including an Enzo. She didn't wreck any! Gorgeous cars. My god.

I hired a coach knowing how challenging this course can be and not knowing the line. Best thing I could've done. I also bought a Hans at Wine Country Motorsports. With my new BK harness mount bar and Schroth harnesses I was worried the neck could snap in an impact. Good thing I bought it seeing all the issues and crashes today. If you don't have a Hans I highly recommend it.

Here's a short video the one session I recorded it. Comments welcome.

http://youtu.be/-ox-PC5DMJk


-CRT

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Oh, I've always wanted to run Infineon...I have a plan...near-term in the future, every summer I intend to take a road-trip out to a track I've never been to before...put track stickers all over my garage as "trophies". One day, when I get up the cash, and balls....I'm shipping a car to the Nordschleife in Nuremburg, Germany. .....one day.

That looks like you had a blast - sorry to hear of all the damages and incidents, but glad it wasn't you!

What equipment were you using to record your run like that with all the data displayed?

[CrystalRedTintcoat]

Originally Posted by markgws6

Was it this one? He was at our last HOD:



Either way I feel bad for him.

That's him, dude. Name is Steve. I think I'll send him regards on behalf of C5 1LE'ers. HOD said people could send him a message.

http://www.gotbluemilk.com/web150422/07/index.html

[CrystalRedTintcoat]

Originally Posted by tjea

CRT, Nice drive. Sears is a very technical track and take a lot of patience.
Installing a HANs requires specific angles and width at the point where the belts engage the HANs to be effective.
http://hansdevice.com/Tech.html

I had WineCountryMotorSports do the helmet installation so that's solid. My harness is a Schroth ASM which is HANS approved. My harness is BK http://www.bkauto.com/R_1150_Harness...r_p/r-1150.htm so hopefully that's close the required 4" inner to inner belt span that's required.

[CrystalRedTintcoat]

Originally Posted by brokencilence

Nice driving. I think I'll just stick with Watkins Glen lol.

I have a high school friend from Greensburg PA who also has a 1LE. Trying to get him out here for Laguna in October. You should come!