If you never walk anywhere, you won't step in the doo-doo...
Based on anecdotal information, my personal observation and tocorrect the
mistake I made in an earlier post on the incident at Road Atlanta:
The section where Jim Adams and Bob Akin got together is extremely fast,
downhill and off-camber. It would have been easy for Jim (on a hot lap in the
Spice) to come flying over the crest at Turn 3, track out to the left as
normal, flick right to pass Akin (on an out lap or first lap on sticker tires
in the Nissan GTP car) while Akin was on-line on the left. It is possible
Adams was unsighted by Akin as Akin turned in to the right at the fastest part
of the downhill before the Esses bottom out. As Akin turned in to the right,
Jim was already there, having closed at a tremendous speed. Jim was committed,
couldn't do a thing to avoid and after the contact, Akin's car cannons left
into the concrete barriers at the bottom of the dip before the Esses begin
climbing up and to the right at the entry of Turn 5 and the car goes up and
over and into the woods. Remarkable heroism on the part of several Prototype
drivers stopping by the side of the track and rushing to Akin's aid. Marshall
Field and others suffered burns themselves.
All of this is conjecture based on anecdotal information. Bad, bad deal, in
any case...
-Peter Krause
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