That was a 50 mph crash test scenario. So sorry to see this happen. Glad to see the safety gear did it's job. It's hard to imagine what the driver of the Triumph was thinking.
I'll tell you. I was sitting perpendicular to the flow of traffic and couldn't see much to the left. Directly ahead was grass, which instinctively seemed much safer. Should I have moved? In hindsight no. But it wasn't -- and believe me I've had this conversation with a lot of drivers in the last 48 hours -- a crazy instinct. Driving onto the track from the grass and causing that mess? I get it, tar and feather me. Trying to get out of the way? Still wrong, especially in hindsight, but the instinct was not crazy.
@@jeffyoung6927 Yeah, that's also what we have been discussing (arm chair quarterbacking). I'm sure the desire to get out of harms way was strong and it's easy to look back and be critical of decisions. Either way, it was a tough situation. I'm just glad the injuries will heal and the cars are not totaled (but it was sad watching your beautiful TR8(?) get crushed).
lol "That poor Datsun" should be asking himself why he's 10-15 mph slower than an IT-prepped front-wheel-drive car on DOT radials, and why he's braking 50-75 feet sooner than said car (which is 300# overweight for E Production). Totally caught me off guard how slow he was going through the Esses and South Bend and how soon he braked into Oak Tree. But that got sorted out on the next lap...
@@GregAmy sucks you wadded your car up in that race. i'm a datsun guy, i have 3 Z's, i just hate seeing them wadded up on a race track. i think they should all just give me their cars and go race a modern chassis thats a dime a dozen.
@@theoriginalDirtybill Fortunately, that Datsun Z escaped the crash, ironically by going the "wrong" way (had the Triumph not moved forward, the Datsun would probably have creamed it instead of me and the BMW). I'm with you on the classic cars as race cars. There's a lot of cars out there that are worth a lot more as street cars. Sadly, maybe worth so much that it's a risk to drive them at all...I have a 914 race car, for example, that I wonder what it would be worth if it didn't have a rollcage in it. But we built these race cars when they were just used-up old street cars. Who woulda ever thought someone would find a four-banger 914 worth anything? So we'll just enjoy 'em while we can.
That Datsun is owned and driven by a very fine individual who is also a decent driver. He was having car problems(transmission I think) from the very beginning. That could have affected his performance level at that point, don’t you think? Didn’t he out qualify you?
