[patrickt]

Sadly, stories like this are also mandatory reading for anyone thinking about getting in to this hobby. Having only read the posts and wire reports, you can envision the turn, the rear end getting loose and coming around, and the car sliding in to the opposite lane with the passenger side door area taking the brunt of the hit. Whether it was the result of heavy acceleration, or drop throttle oversteer, remains to be seen. But that scenario is a classic handling characteristic of our cars. I have pics in my gallery of skid marks on curves from exactly that type of event, and when you see them, you think to yourself "how the heck did that happen?"