What you don't want to see at the track!
03-12-2007, 07:58 AM
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What you don't want to see at the track!
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03-12-2007, 09:32 AM
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Great video to watch before you go to a HPDE
I think that bad mishaps like these are more in my mind as I get older, so as a result, I get slower and more cautious.
Thanks for reminding us that there can be true danger on the track.
Jim
I think that bad mishaps like these are more in my mind as I get older, so as a result, I get slower and more cautious.
Thanks for reminding us that there can be true danger on the track.
Jim
03-12-2007, 09:40 AM
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03-12-2007, 09:41 AM
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Man, those are hard to watch sometimes. You know the ones that burst into flames were probably fatal. 
03-12-2007, 10:23 AM
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It makes my stomach hurt. Those open wheel guys in particular are ballzy.
03-12-2007, 10:27 AM
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Sir Sterling Moss was on Wind Tunnel last night he was talking about pre 65 racing were there were not even seat belts. That is why you cannot compare todays drivers who smash up a car and get a new one to a Fangio who knew a mistake could have a good chance of being fatal. Two different worlds in his opinion.
03-12-2007, 11:52 AM
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Sir Sterling Moss was on Wind Tunnel last night he was talking about pre 65 racing were there were not even seat belts. That is why you cannot compare todays drivers who smash up a car and get a new one to a Fangio who knew a mistake could have a good chance of being fatal. Two different worlds in his opinion.
03-12-2007, 11:53 AM
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yep he said they were afraid of fire so no belts. They needed a whole night with him very nice with NO big head or ego
03-13-2007, 12:58 PM
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I don't know John, kind of hard to believe someone puts this carnage to music. I was there in Toronto the year that Jeff Krosnoff (the first crash in video) was killed as well as Gary Arvio a track worker. Kind of tough to watch.
Kevin
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03-13-2007, 11:12 PM
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I believe Sterling Moss made a quote "similar" to this one:
"A man can drive his whole career taking each corner just below his capability, and may even win some races. But that man is no 'racing driver'. It is a very different thing to go flat out around a corner with smooth grass for a runoff, and quite a different thing to go flat on a corner with a stone house for the apex and NO runoff."
I'm sure that I haven't got the quote right, but you get the picture.
"A man can drive his whole career taking each corner just below his capability, and may even win some races. But that man is no 'racing driver'. It is a very different thing to go flat out around a corner with smooth grass for a runoff, and quite a different thing to go flat on a corner with a stone house for the apex and NO runoff."
I'm sure that I haven't got the quote right, but you get the picture.
03-13-2007, 11:52 PM
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come on man? what we do is dangerous for sure but most of those vids are just for crash junkies... of every one of those crashes there were thousands of safe laps... i have lost freinds in motor sports crashes but to quit or be shook buy the fact that the danger is what makes it real..would be unjust to there memories ..... if you want safe get an x box ... but if you want to experience life at its best there is risk involved buisness life and love......
