Racing scars, cool! And as always, it still counts as fun if no one gets hurt.
Hope you get it fixed, or a new car or something. How do these things work on a racetrack? Does the guy who hit you take care of expenses?
It's every car for itself. I'm looking at ~$5K to put it all back together: new shell, new cage (not effing around with it this time--handing it off to a professional to deal with), maybe some drivetrain bits in the middle, too. I'll have to see how complete the replacement shell is and if there's any little things that are borked in mine.
If anyone knows of a 944 shell that's fairly straight and rust free, please let me know ASAP. I want to have this thing running for shakedown runs by August.
No more of this last-minute stuff. Either people on the team can get items done by when I need them to get done, or I'm gonna start handing off tasks to people I know who can do 'em on time. The timeline's too short, there's too much work to do, and most of all, we need to get it out of Rob's yard quickly! The car's going to be at a friend's house for a while so we can work on it in the evenings instead of the track (which typically closes at 6).
That surprises me. I would expect more people jumping out of their car, yelling "Asshole! Look what you did to my car!"
Nope. The LAST thing you want to do is get out of the car. Unless it's on fire, it's better to stay strapped in to the item that might be punted (again) than it is to get out and become
something that could be hit and/or squished by the possible projectile. As seen by the picture above, people don't always see yellow flags for chaos on track, can get the car slowed down enough to avoid said chaos and/or know what to do when a yellow flag is thrown. Or heck, I'm not even sure a yellow flag was even thrown yet. Either way, you can't always see what's going on up track from you. It stinks and kind of means you're a sitting duck (data showed that we were stationary at the time of impact), but you've just got to sit tight and wait for the tow in that situation.
"Something is borked" flags are kind of a weird thing. There's what you're supposed to do, and there's a bunch of people who are sort of new to this whole thing on the track. I'm pretty sure the flag stand is right
at that corner, so I'm not even sure how much advance warning the guy who hit us even had beforehand.