Video: Nearly T-boned a 996GT3R at Summit!
05-14-2003, 06:52 PM
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Video: Nearly T-boned a 996GT3R at Summit!
Recent Trackmasters event at Summit Point. The PCA club racers hired ex-Porsche factory driver David Murray to set up their cars. I was on his tail coming out of turn 10 onto the main straight when he started dumping anti-freeze in the braking zone. Narrowly missed t-boning him. He ended up going off at the next turn and damaging his front bumper.
Please excuse the language!
Almost a $250,000 collision.
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Jon
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95 F355 Challenge<ul><li><a href="http://www.ferrarichat.com/videos/jon355c/Lockup.mpg">F355 Challenge meets 996GT3R</a></li></ul>
Please excuse the language!
Almost a $250,000 collision.
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Jon
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95 F355 Challenge<ul><li><a href="http://www.ferrarichat.com/videos/jon355c/Lockup.mpg">F355 Challenge meets 996GT3R</a></li></ul>
05-15-2003, 01:57 PM
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Porkers...
...and antifreeze...it just doesn't compute here on the TSR corporate campus. Aren't Porkers are supposed to be air cooled ? All the new water cooled cars still sound like a bucket of gravel rolling around inside a steel garbage can. You'd think that they would fix that. But...you guys sure do make that front straight at the Point really short. Your buddies Karsen etc. were up at the Glen last Saturday, playing bumper tag with Sam and the race truck boys. I was testing out a new brake system, and just had to dodge the high velocity train of Italian & American iron every 8-10 laps. 160 mph juvenile delinquents. Yeehar.
Don't worry about the language. You just used the universal race car driver's traditional phrase for dismay, alarm and annoyance, and your use was gramatically and syntactically correct. Every in-car I've ever seen that ends in a big off or impact has that word somewhere in it. It also regularly flies across radio waves mid-race, usually coupled with a colorful and entertaining string of other stuff about our fellow racers. That's why we hang a big radio speaker in our pit...it scares all the other teams. If it was just on crew headsets, it wouldn't have anywhere near the impact.
Now the subversive part - we're looking for some pit crew for the 12 Hour in two weeks. Any victims you'd care to offer up for sacrifice ?
Don't worry about the language. You just used the universal race car driver's traditional phrase for dismay, alarm and annoyance, and your use was gramatically and syntactically correct. Every in-car I've ever seen that ends in a big off or impact has that word somewhere in it. It also regularly flies across radio waves mid-race, usually coupled with a colorful and entertaining string of other stuff about our fellow racers. That's why we hang a big radio speaker in our pit...it scares all the other teams. If it was just on crew headsets, it wouldn't have anywhere near the impact.
Now the subversive part - we're looking for some pit crew for the 12 Hour in two weeks. Any victims you'd care to offer up for sacrifice ?
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05-15-2003, 08:51 PM
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Re: Porkers...
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Yeah, you need to talk with Karson. He really needs to start racing and stop terrorizing everybody at Ferrari Club events (me included) along with the "Tonka Truck Maffia". Last year at the Glen he took me out in his car with Barry Smith in front in his Challenge car. I told Matt I wanted to see his line through a couple of corners. Little did I know??
He and Barry were trying to set a lap record last session of the day and were trying like hell to draft each other on the straights to get a quicker time. I never did see Matt's line...all I could see were the scratch marks on the back of Barry's bumper and the intricate carbon fiber weaving on his wing. We were never less than 1/2 foot appart and at one point Matt braked so late in 1 I stuck my hand out at the dash.....pretty freakin' embarrassing for someone who races and is comfortable with those speeds. Matt just laughed and said relax...I thought my God did you just get your divorce papers or did all your money vanish in the stock market crash.
Then all hell broke loose as we were enterting the toe of the boot and Matt's brakes failed. He did everything right and kept the car out of the armco. Good thing I just went to the bathroom for a major fluid drainage or Matt's passenger seat would have had quite a funky smell. Good thing I got rid of lunch too before the ride.
His right rear pad came out and disintigrated. Apparently he or someone working on his car forgot to close the wire clip that holds it in place.
He wasn't even concerned after someone told him he did a 2:05 flat. I was doing 2:09 but it seemed like I was doing 2:20-2:30's compared to Matt. He is now quicker than the official lap record for the Challenge series.
I didn't realize how much home court advantage counts as Karson said I drive exactly the same at Summit and must scare the hell out of some of my passengers as well.
Actually the language part was quite subdued compared to my tongue lashing with the corner workers and organizers. The reason I got out of my car was that the corner workers didn't have a debris flag and I was sitting dead straight at the end of turn 1 with half a dozen idiots storming down the straight. I screamed at the corner worker to wave the yellow..he said it's off track I said how the hell do you think I got there (my line ain't that bad)....3 seconds later two other cars ended up right beside me.
I then screamed at the organizers who weren't happy I got out of the car. What the hell...you don't have the right flags, the corner worker argues with me over the technically of where my car is (off track) and two other cars nearly cream my car.
In fact Sam was right behind me when I went off. He nearly creamed me and the Porsche as well.
Sam has been working on me for months about one of those "Tonka" trucks. Said I would be two seconds a lap faster at Summit in one. That would put me at 1:17 flat TA and GT1 territory.
Man for the money and the fun he has a damn good point but couldn't we put a car body on the damn thing something about racing a TRUCK! I am sure I will be even more interested once the Challenge car is gone. The M5 is fun but seems like a rental car compared to the 355.
Every year you ask me about the 12 hour and every year I have some lame *** excuse. Well this year it's pretty legit. Third child on the way June 9th, though judgin by the appearance of my lovely spouse it might be sooner.
I am not sure she would appreciate me being gone 12 hours for a race and then the appropriate 5-10 hours after drinking beer and swapping war stories. I asked politely about going to a 355 Challenge reunion at Lime Rock in July and just ducked in time to avoid being hit by a fork. Figure I will leave well enough alone.
I am officially retired from racing and track days until late fall or whenever it's safe to mention the issue without getting bombarded by silverware, whichever occurs first.
Good luck. I have some friends whom I am sure you have raced against running and ITA CRX. Jason from Curry's Automotive and Payton (Spec Miata) along with some other National Champion ITA racer they recruited from Wisconsin.
Regards,
Jon
PS: Here is a shot of another close call with a Porsche GT3. Same event although this time I was the "duffus".
Yeah, you need to talk with Karson. He really needs to start racing and stop terrorizing everybody at Ferrari Club events (me included) along with the "Tonka Truck Maffia". Last year at the Glen he took me out in his car with Barry Smith in front in his Challenge car. I told Matt I wanted to see his line through a couple of corners. Little did I know??
He and Barry were trying to set a lap record last session of the day and were trying like hell to draft each other on the straights to get a quicker time. I never did see Matt's line...all I could see were the scratch marks on the back of Barry's bumper and the intricate carbon fiber weaving on his wing. We were never less than 1/2 foot appart and at one point Matt braked so late in 1 I stuck my hand out at the dash.....pretty freakin' embarrassing for someone who races and is comfortable with those speeds. Matt just laughed and said relax...I thought my God did you just get your divorce papers or did all your money vanish in the stock market crash.
Then all hell broke loose as we were enterting the toe of the boot and Matt's brakes failed. He did everything right and kept the car out of the armco. Good thing I just went to the bathroom for a major fluid drainage or Matt's passenger seat would have had quite a funky smell. Good thing I got rid of lunch too before the ride.
His right rear pad came out and disintigrated. Apparently he or someone working on his car forgot to close the wire clip that holds it in place.
He wasn't even concerned after someone told him he did a 2:05 flat. I was doing 2:09 but it seemed like I was doing 2:20-2:30's compared to Matt. He is now quicker than the official lap record for the Challenge series.
I didn't realize how much home court advantage counts as Karson said I drive exactly the same at Summit and must scare the hell out of some of my passengers as well.
Actually the language part was quite subdued compared to my tongue lashing with the corner workers and organizers. The reason I got out of my car was that the corner workers didn't have a debris flag and I was sitting dead straight at the end of turn 1 with half a dozen idiots storming down the straight. I screamed at the corner worker to wave the yellow..he said it's off track I said how the hell do you think I got there (my line ain't that bad)....3 seconds later two other cars ended up right beside me.
I then screamed at the organizers who weren't happy I got out of the car. What the hell...you don't have the right flags, the corner worker argues with me over the technically of where my car is (off track) and two other cars nearly cream my car.
In fact Sam was right behind me when I went off. He nearly creamed me and the Porsche as well.
Sam has been working on me for months about one of those "Tonka" trucks. Said I would be two seconds a lap faster at Summit in one. That would put me at 1:17 flat TA and GT1 territory.
Man for the money and the fun he has a damn good point but couldn't we put a car body on the damn thing something about racing a TRUCK! I am sure I will be even more interested once the Challenge car is gone. The M5 is fun but seems like a rental car compared to the 355.
Every year you ask me about the 12 hour and every year I have some lame *** excuse. Well this year it's pretty legit. Third child on the way June 9th, though judgin by the appearance of my lovely spouse it might be sooner.
I am not sure she would appreciate me being gone 12 hours for a race and then the appropriate 5-10 hours after drinking beer and swapping war stories. I asked politely about going to a 355 Challenge reunion at Lime Rock in July and just ducked in time to avoid being hit by a fork. Figure I will leave well enough alone.
I am officially retired from racing and track days until late fall or whenever it's safe to mention the issue without getting bombarded by silverware, whichever occurs first.
Good luck. I have some friends whom I am sure you have raced against running and ITA CRX. Jason from Curry's Automotive and Payton (Spec Miata) along with some other National Champion ITA racer they recruited from Wisconsin.
Regards,
Jon
PS: Here is a shot of another close call with a Porsche GT3. Same event although this time I was the "duffus".
05-15-2003, 10:18 PM
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A few more videos !!
There is also a slow motion version of the incident on my website. Click on "videos" and go to the second page.
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