Looking for in-car VIR group 6 incident

[chewy8000]

Anyone have in-car from the start incident of group 6 yesterday at VIR? Trying to see how many times my car got hit and what happened.

[ITA_honda]

Oh no.....dont tell me that beautiful car got damaged!!!!

[chewy8000]

Nevermind Ginsberg just sent this to me.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHbDRb4H2Gs[/ame]

[shwah]

Wow. Looks like the accordian giveth, and the accordian taketh away. Bummer deal Tristan, and all others involved.

On a lighter note, how was the powerplant working out this time?

[gran racing]

Is that Greg's in-car and you're the vehicle that went flying by?

[chewy8000]

No it's the in-car from the #50 RX7. Yes I'm the missile in the grass.

[gran racing]

Did you hit the guard rail which caused the other stuff?

[Gregg]

Is that Greg's in-car and you're the vehicle that went flying by?

Nope...I would have wrecked long before that point. Tristan did have a hell of a jump until...well...you know.

I was there dutifully playing the role of crew for Jeff Janoska's MARRS ITB CRX this weekend and didn't race, who ran very good races both days and came away with 3rd-place MARRS points on Saturday and 2nd-place points on Sunday.

[xr4racer]

It is stupid moves like this that tear up many good cars. I hope the stewards had something to say.

matt miller

[chewy8000]

I agree it was a stupid move and won't be repeated.

[Andy Bettencourt]

Wow.

[Sandro]

On a lighter note, how was the powerplant working out this time?

from the video it looked like it was running really well ! !

how bad is the car? you have to have the worst like of anyone I know racing a VW

[quadzjr]

how in the heck did you get such a jump?

[Marcus Miller]

how in the heck did you get such a jump?

Nitrous, of course

[iambhooper]

Tristan,

I have a couple of questions. First, weren't you 5 spots in front of me on the grid? Which brings me to WTF were you thinking? Did you forget about the kink?

Watching this $#!& happen from P24, all I could think was "dear god.... i've found myself in the middle of a European Touring car race!"

The race cannot be won on the first lap, but it sure can be lost!

hoop

[Ron Earp]

How did the car coming by on the inside have so much speed on the rest of the field only a second or two after the green?????????

[gran racing]

The beginning grass part I may have done but it needed to get settled down way before you did. Ballsey move; glad no one got hurt and sounds like you learned from it. Gesh, especially with such a nice new car. More importantly other peoples' cars.

[RSTPerformance]

The beginning grass part I may have done but it needed to get settled down way before you did. Ballsey move; glad no one got hurt and sounds like you learned from it. Gesh, especially with such a nice new car. More importantly other peoples' cars.

Holly $#!++

Dave- Your right, the grass was ok in some minds, but after that you should have settled down long before it becomes a video game... your playing with a lot more than just your car and your life. I hope you learned your lesson and the video maybe taught others a lesson also.

Two questions:

1) How did you get such a jump? you had to jump the start right?

2) What penalties did the stewards give you after the protests came pourig in?

Raymond

[shwah]

I just assumed the jump was the result of the pack expanding and contracting (like an acordian) as it formed up, and he ended up wide open trying to keep/catch up when the green flew. Not that uncommon to happen in a large field. Though I wish starters would take a harder line on this and insist on proper formations in more than the first few rows with our multi class groups.

[chewy8000]

The timing of the jump...I assure you... was plain dumb luck. I did it successfully on the outside the day before. I noticed that in most of the races that I watched they would throw the green when the field was 1/2 way down the wall so I just backed off and hammered it in 3rd after hog pen. Right as I got up on the cars in front of me the green went and I was already into 4th. Got the timing right at the start but I see how dangerous it was now compared to having patience and using race craft. Glad that everyone is okay and I did learn my lesson...