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Old 04-05-2011, 05:10 PM
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It looks like theres an autox in hershey on saturday and sunday. I may go to whichever day looks like the best weather. I'd try philly but that a lot further away for me.
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Old 04-05-2011, 08:10 PM
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Well the shop that sponsors my car was able to give me two freebie coil-packs. Hopefully I will have the blown one out and replaced tomorrow. Now just need the weather to cooperate. Hershey is a good bit closer for me as well.
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Originally Posted by N-ATuned
how long did it take for them to get his wreck towed off the island?
What happened??
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Old 04-06-2011, 06:24 AM
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Originally Posted by e3opian
What happened??
There was ANOTHER crash a Bowie???

That lot is cursed.
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Old 04-06-2011, 06:55 AM
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Well it was an inexperience driver... First time Auto-X and he was driving an M6..

I was next in the grid so I didnt really see the accident but from what I was told he lost control of the car on a straight through the islands. His rear left wheel curbed and then his car ended up on top of the island...
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Originally Posted by N-ATuned
Well it was an inexperience driver...
It always is...

But there are always going to be inexperienced drivers at autocrosses. I think this is two years in a row now that MSCW has had course designs through the islands where newbies have wrecked. They've gotta stop using the lower lot, I think. CDC manages to have courses with similar FTD's and they only use the upper lot.
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Originally Posted by TopGear
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Well it was an inexperience driver...
It always is...

But there are always going to be inexperienced drivers at autocrosses. I think this is two years in a row now that MSCW has had course designs through the islands where newbies have wrecked. They've gotta stop using the lower lot, I think. CDC manages to have courses with similar FTD's and they only use the upper lot.

Yea CDC courses are sometimes longer.. but there is alot of double gates and such.. the Mazda course was simple and easy to follow... Just that gate is kind of tricky because you had to brake in between the islands and turn left almost immediately.. which is probably what caused this incident.

Honestly if it had been a straight in and out, there wouldn't have been as much of a problem.
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I didn't see any issues with the gates....I was flat out through both. PCA usually has 45-60s courses using the lower lot.
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Originally Posted by 03threefiftyz
I didn't see any issues with the gates....I was flat out through both. PCA usually has 45-60s courses using the lower lot.
Tricky in a sense that he braked too hard in the gate, and then oversteered trying to gas it out of there...
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Originally Posted by 03threefiftyz
I didn't see any issues with the gates....I was flat out through both. PCA usually has 45-60s courses using the lower lot.
And you are experienced and on R-comps. Not really an apples-to-apples comparison..
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