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Originally posted by Jeremy964
Wow - and looking at that track - and all the entry points - I think I have a pretty good idea of where the entry point is = Bad spot if I am correct - and the track marshall would really have to be on their toes at 165 mph.
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If someone who participated in the event could comment:
What were the driver instructions about entering the track?
Were they told to stay below the white line?
Where the pits enter the track is completely safe if the drivers follow the correct procedure. When you enter the track you are supposed to stay below the white line until you reach the back straight. Then you merge out on the track. The area below the white line is flat with the banking starting at the white line. It should have made no difference if a car was coming or not. It is a common amateur problem that people will be in a rush to get up on the banking as soon as possible. Hey, that's why they came there to begin with.
Earlier someone mad a comment about the track marshal and that they weren't employees of the speedway. The speedway never supplies a pit marshal. Their safety crews are constantly watching you though.
It sounds like Ben got caught in a really bad spot and couldn't get out.
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06-03-2005 04:12 PM
touf
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FYI:
- The oval was not used for this FOC Event.
-Only the infield portion of the track was used.
-The crash happened in the runoff area toward the end of the straight after the bridge. This is the straight after turn 8 and 9.
-The entrance to the track when this configuration is used is on the left side of this short straight.
-When this configuration is used, drivers should stay to the right, however it is a bit unnatural because the next turn is a right/left combo and the natural line is to stay to the left.
- There is a runnoff area with grass and then it's retaining walls.
Here is a pic of the track map when the infield is used.
I am not sure that this is the exact configuration that FOC used however the entrance to the track had to be the same.
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06-03-2005 04:41 PM
MX5Bob
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Registered: Jun 2005
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Originally posted by touf
FYI:
- The oval was not used for this FOC Event.
-Only the infield portion of the track was used.
-The crash happened in the runoff area toward the end of the straight after the bridge. This is the straight after turn 8 and 9.
-The entrance to the track when this configuration is used is on the left side of this short straight.
-When this configuration is used, drivers should stay to the right, however it is a bit unnatural because the next turn is a right/left combo and the natural line is to stay to the left.
- There is a runnoff area with grass and then it's retaining walls.
Here is a pic of the track map when the infield is used.
I am not sure that this is the exact configuration that FOC used however the entrance to the track had to be the same.
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Just to be clear, the infiled course is run clockwise, and the runoff just past the bridge is in the area leading down to turn 1. Cars enter just after the chicane [touf, would that be turn 8 and 9 or 16 and 17 in the typical backside config?], that follows the hairpin, which is where the pit-in lane is.
Nothing marks the end of the pit-out lane on the infield course unless you put cones down, which they may well have done.
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