ill be flagging...

 

I hope to be following this guy up. Since I dont have a track car I will be watching and maybe seeing if there is any classes I can go to on the track.

I would like to see if I can take the TB on the skidpad... It would be nice to sorta get feel for how it slides around if anything ever happens.

 

Skidpad activities for this event have been cancelled.

Jon

 

Did my student in HPDE 1 ever get that bill??? I hope he didnt ruin it for everyone!

 

That doesnt sound good.

 

He hit the only thing you can hit on the skid pad, well except for the wall.

 

A sprinkler head? I never ventured over there to see whats hit able. Jon wouldn't let me throw the dually on the skid pad.

 

damn... ok well maybe next time.

 

explain?

 

He hit a 4x4" wood pole on the uphill side. With a skidpad instructor in the car. Going backwards & sideways at about 10mph. Knocked it clean out of the ground and destroyed the PVC pipe attached to it that controls the water going to the sprinkler heads. Uglied up his back bumper cover too.

Between that incident and the walls several people including myself almost hit... we decided it isn't worth the risk. Quite simply our goal is for people to have fun and slide around and learn, not to damage their cars and/or get bills for damage to track property (which, btw, he paid the day he received - no problem there.)

But luckily that's not the only skidpad available. If only NASA-MA had a run of events at another road course facility scheduled for June through November...

Stay tuned for details,

Jon