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    Quote Originally Posted by Z3_GoCar View Post
    IMHO, it's not the start that was the problem.... As I saw it in the video here are some of the mistakes leading to the whole incident:

    1 ) Tristian did have a very small overlap, maybe a couple of inches maybe less than that, with the gray car.

    2 ) The yellow Rx7 swerved.

    3 ) The gray car overreacted and swerved into the VW which had been there... causing the pitt manuver type spin into the fence.

    What did make this worse for lots of people was the fact that it was a start and lots of cars were in close proximity togeather. I didn't see who tapped the car taking the video. I thought he was free untill he went sideways.
    What gray car? The yellow Rx7 moved over just a little to the right toward the blue Rx7, the blue Rx7 was still on the track, and they both probably would not have touched each other. Brake lights did not appear on the VW until after the blue Rx7 was hit, not to mention that there was a 2 or 3 car hole behind the blue Rx7 that VW could have slipped into. At the point the blue Rx7 was hit, the guardrail and the track were moving closer together, and the VW ran out of room. It seems that if the guardrail and track did not close in at that point, the blue Rx7 would have been passed in the grass on the right.

    I was a few rows behind Hoop, and all I saw was a dirt cloud to the right, and cars spinning of to the left.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tac911t View Post
    What gray car? The yellow Rx7 moved over just a little to the right toward the blue Rx7, the blue Rx7 was still on the track, and they both probably would not have touched each other. Brake lights did not appear on the VW until after the blue Rx7 was hit, not to mention that there was a 2 or 3 car hole behind the blue Rx7 that VW could have slipped into. At the point the blue Rx7 was hit, the guardrail and the track were moving closer together, and the VW ran out of room. It seems that if the guardrail and track did not close in at that point, the blue Rx7 would have been passed in the grass on the right.

    I was a few rows behind Hoop, and all I saw was a dirt cloud to the right, and cars spinning of to the left.
    Sorry, the dark blue looks like a steel grey on my screen.
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