OVR Double Regional at mid-Ohio 9/5 & 9/6 (PDX 9/4)

[dhardison]

I am so sorry that you guys got caught up in the accident. Dan you can get me at [email protected] Jim Locke

No problem, it'll buff right out - .

How's your driver doing? I heard that he was released from the hospital on Sunday morning, but don't know how accurate that is. He was a bit dazed/confused in medical.

[gt40jim]

Hey Dan your gonna need a LOT of compound. I'll buy and bring a bottle to the next race!! Docs ok he's pretty beat, concussion, coupla ribs and torn back muscles. Still has no memory of the deal. Car has so much floor pan buckling, I'm just amazed he's not worse. The tunnel by the shifter buckled. The cage shifted right and pushed the rocker panel on the passengers side outwards! The seat mounts are bent some.
I am picking up a shell this week and starting the new car. (I'm all out of buffing compound) Jim

[joeg]

Sorry to hear the Doc got hurt.

[xr4racer]

Here is a picture of my former RX-7. HANS did its job, my floor buckled and banged up my feet but all was good by Monday. A little discomfort in a lower right side back muscle is all I have so far.

matt

[dhardison]

Here is a picture of my former RX-7. HANS did its job, my floor buckled and banged up my feet but all was good by Monday. A little discomfort in a lower right side back muscle is all I have so far.

matt

Matt, did you receive the email/video?

[xr4racer]

Yes I did, thank you.

matt

[D.R.]

I was a few rows back, without the video camera in the car.

That was one of the hardest hits I've seen. Nearly comparable to the recent SM - Lotus head on at LRP.

I'm so glad that both of you guys are ok. It could have been a lot worse.

There was too much metal to metal contact this weekend for sure.

[Eagle7]

Here is a picture of my former RX-7. HANS did its job, my floor buckled and banged up my feet but all was good by Monday. A little discomfort in a lower right side back muscle is all I have so far.

matt

So sorry to hear about the car. Glad you came through it OK.

[Racerlinn]

No problem, it'll buff right out - .

How's your driver doing? I heard that he was released from the hospital on Sunday morning, but don't know how accurate that is. He was a bit dazed/confused in medical.

Shit Dan. What the heck happened guys?

[dhardison]

Shit Dan. What the heck happened guys?

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[R2 Racing]

I was sitting on the hill in the esses for the start of the ITS race, and while looking at the grouping of cars go by on the pace lap, I said to the guys I was with "Wow, I'd NEVER race my ITS car in that group.", just knowing it was going to lead to something bad. ITS cars with GT1, GT2, GT3, AS, T1, STO, ITE, and EP. Fuck. That.

[ITA_honda]

That video makes me sick to my stomach.
that was a nasty crash.

[dj10]

I was sitting on the hill in the esses for the start of the ITS race, and while looking at the grouping of cars go by on the pace lap, I said to the guys I was with "Wow, I'd NEVER race my ITS car in that group.", just knowing it was going to lead to something bad. ITS cars with GT1, GT2, GT3, AS, T1, STO, ITE, and EP. Fuck. That.

Kevin,
Your exactly right about the grouping it sucks and really should be addressed by OVR. DC Region started to do this again this year an I boycotted all their events due to previous incidents with Big Bore cars. On certain tracks you can get away with it, like Watkins Glen, Road America and Road Atlanta....fast tracks. Hell I got hit again last weekend @ Mid O and last Oct a GT1 knocked me into the tire wall in the carousal, that was over 2K in damage.

[xr4racer]

No offense to any AS racers reading this, but we (ITR and especially ITS) do not race well with regional level AS cars. If McDermid or Sloe were there it would not be an issue because they are so much faster and would be gone. Regional AS cars run very similar lap times as ITS but they do it much differently. They have engine and we have cornering speed, this does not work well. I do not mind the GTs because again they are so much faster it is not a problem.
The last 2 years OVR has not put ITR in the restricted regional with the national because of closing speed difference with ITC, but they put ITS with GT1? This has never made sense to me. I understand the scheduling difficulty with turnouts being lower and the need for enduros and handicaps to pay the bill at Mid Ohio, but would 1 more closed wheel group ruin the timeline?

matt

[dj10]

Matt,
I had this exact conversation with Bill Niemyer, whom I just met @ Mid O. Both of our opinion's are were almost exactly as you have stated.

[924Guy]

This alone tells me we've come a long way in the past couple of years, WRT safety equipment - a big hit happens, and most everyone's got H+N restraints... whether or not they choose to wear? Not intending to get into a rant about shoulda's - not appropriate IMO when the guy goes to the hospital! Just commending the fact that even us at the low end of the budget spectrum are indeed putting our priorities right...

[gt40jim]

Please guys no rants about shouldas. The hans was misplaced and could not be located by Doc. Would you have gone home on Friday night and NOT raced because you could not find it? New used body shell bought in Charlotte last night and drove an all nighter back to shop. Off to Mark Monday. Jim