GaryR

Set your calendar for the Saturday, April 28th PCA Club Race! Sold out in 36 hours this year, lots of cars!

Excellent advice and a requirement in most places for open top cars. Karl - glad to hear you are going to go with a containment cage.. and I told everyone I thought you were a good 6'8"!

Now that the door has been opened to track safety i'll add what I thought when I saw you sitting in her when i drove in. After getting over how nice she looked I noticed how very exposed you were. While that rollbar may meet the letter of the rules I can't imagine it holding up and not just rip the tail off the car in a heavy impact. You have no side protection whatsoever and would be a pancake if a car came up over the hood. You were on the track with sedans that weighed up to and over 4000 lbs. and all I could envision is you spinning and having one of those tanks hit you broadside. The results would be catastrophic. Please put a proper cage with side and frontal protection in. It may look hokey and add weight but it WILL save your life.. Sermon over.

Are you talking about iRacing laps? Last I knew the track record in a SPM was 1:02.1.... or do you have a V8 conversion?

Karl - Glad to hear there is no "day-after" damage to you as you seemed good at the track. The car in front of you was mine, with my wife driving in the Yellow group (I instruct and run in Red). Having run 1000's of DE and Racing laps at Limerock I can offer a couple things, please take them for what they cost.. nothing! 1. You were running a very light car on Michelin slicks. They take a couple laps to get anywhere near maximum grip under the best of circumstances. 2. You came over the peak of the hill under power in a light/powerful car while still giving some steering input. If the wheels were straight or even better, had some counter-steer applied you may have steered out of it. In my car 185HP/2700LB I automatically have counter-steer input at every crest of that hill at around 90 MPH. 3. You appear to have lifted off throttle the moment the rear started to go, trailing throttle oversteer may have added to your predicament. Staying at least neutral on the throttle may have helped. Here's to you getting your beautiful car back together soon and incident free track days! Best, Gary