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Re: Autocross Speed and Safety

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Subject: Re: Autocross Speed and Safety
From: "Jeff Winchell" <Jeff@Winchell.Com>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 03:57:12 -0800
<yawn>. In my 20+ years of driving, I see an accident on the roads 
every day. If people are afraid of 3 accidents in 13 years, they should 
cacoon themselves in a hermetically sealed box.

Life is for the living. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

> The element of danger is ever present and something we really need to
> respect and keep formost in our minds. In my 13 years experience I have
> witnessed 3 instances of car damage from hitting objects. NONE of these
> incidents occured because of speed in excess of the rules. Let me be
> specific:
> 
> A low speed event in a small lot had a 90 degree turn following a slalom
> at about 35 mph. 25' past the turn was a curb. My future wife, blew the
> turn in an EP Datsun 510 and jumped the curb into the bushes.
> 
> A Miata traversing a 45 mph set of offsets overcooked it, did a tank
> slapper and nudged into a concrete light pole at about 5 mph.
> 
> A BMW 320is with R1s got loose in a 7 cone slalom (speed about 35 mph),
> didn't give up the run, tried to get back to the cone and flipped (driver
> received a minor scratch).



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