This did NOT happen at our event...but

[Mmagus]

...I believe it is the same lot at CA Speedway where we hold ours.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=BB-KBaevPqM

[MR LIPP]

Did you hear.....

O.C. woman dies in desert raceway crash

The car was in a recreational race Sunday April 21 at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway in Desert Center, and Chelsea Vu, 21, was a passenger wearing a four point harness seat belt.





By CLAUDIA KOERNER / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

DESERT CENTER – A Westminster woman died Sunday after a crash at the Chuckwalla Valley Raceway in Riverside County.
Chelsea Vu, 21, was a passenger in a coupe whose driver lost control and crashed head-on into a concrete barrier around 10:20 a.m., the Riverside County coroner's office said. The car was in a recreational race, and Vu was wearing a harness seat belt at the time.

[Kim Crosser]

Actually we (Zone 8 ) have had Porsches damaged in the same AX area there at California Speedway.

At one Z8 AX there, the curb WAS the outside of the turn and some light pole bollards were the inside apexes of the turns (no cones - just the light pole bollards). Cutting the apex too fine would have been very ugly.
One very nice new 996 went into understeer in a turn and took out his left front wheel and bodywork going over the curb.

At the same AX, I was instructing a 1st timer (who won his class that day). Coming out of the slalom you headed right for the big brick wall at the end. If you nailed the slalom, you were coming out of it very fast and had to hit the turn perfectly or you were racing right at the bricks. I was calling for him to brake before we left the slalom but he was so excited by nailing the slalom that he hesitated and we wound up sliding like the Corvette, but luckily we stopped only a couple of feet short of the wall.

Any time the edges of a course are concrete and brick, the opportunities for disaster are there.