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Old 03-07-2011, 10:48 PM
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It's a very strange accident.
She was obviously hard on the brakes at that point and it seems that right at the point she spun it looks like there is a transition in the track surface or maybe something had been laid down on the track at one time, that actually caused the spin. The way she left the Porsche like he was tied to a stump indicates to me that it is probably a big block car. All that weight on the nose of a car that obviously sits too high and is rather softly sprung, it wants to swap ends at threshold braking. As the car came around she hit the "drier" part of the track and over she went. It was the perfect storm. Major bummer.

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Old 03-08-2011, 07:31 AM
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something had been laid down on the track at one time, that actually caused the spin.
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Surface transitions are usually not a problem unless they are wet (asphalt to concrete or pick your surfaces), what usually happens is there is a weight shift due to the transition and then the surface on the front tires does not match that of the back tires and one winds up losing traction. Many tracks around here have surface transitions and only real major issue one is PIR when leaving the chicane
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