Guest chicagozer Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Since Chumpcar has earned a reputation for tight wheel-to-wheel action, I thought I'd share some of my video from Christmas at Laguna Seca.I'm carefully minding my business in our overweight, underpowered (all-wheel-drive) Subaru but I manage to go toe-to-toe with some of Germany's finest engineering./>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK3F66M-jS8Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABR-Glen Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Is that the right video? I just see you plowing off the track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogren-Engineering Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 That is pretty funny. Just watching the hands had me Laughing. The driver missed the apex and than drove off of the outside,just like the rabbit.. The tiltle suggest some conflct that I did not see MM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Infiniti Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Fault? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzys Cages Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Um.... your driver??? I'm guessing that's the wrong video, but briefly going through your other LS video, it' looks like you might need to have a team meeting about the term "late" apex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krek Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 I blame Newton. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chicagozer Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 I blame Newton.Exactly.I have no one to blame but myself, but I thought the video was pretty funny. That and I managed to save it by keeping my foot on the gas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Infiniti Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 I was wondering about 4wd recovery technique, the elbows were a bonus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jer Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 hahahahahaI blame the course designer. They should have made a little more run-off room on the right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cagedruss Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 No good deed goes unpunished! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droptheclutch Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Nice save I'd say. That fine German Engineered car is ours before the timing belt slipped and bent all the intake valves after 3 hours ...we'll be back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest posnova Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Doh! I wondered what happened to Autospiel. Good luck. See you in February?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csadn Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 I blame the course designer. They should have made a little more run-off room on the right. Course *re*designer, you mean -- used to be Laguna was all left turns until one hit the Corkscrew; then someone decided it had to have the fiddly bit in the infield, and screwed it up beyond repair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daily driver Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Since Chumpcar has earned a reputation for tight wheel-to-wheel action, I thought I'd share some of my video from Christmas at Laguna Seca.I'm carefully minding my business in our overweight, underpowered (all-wheel-drive) Subaru but I manage to go toe-to-toe with some of Germany's finest engineering.JimNice...that is exactly where one bmw started spinning and hit another bmw (2nd place car?) and then clipped the front of me. I will have to dig out the gopro and try to post that up. It's good. Also was told by the first bmw that they had a camera running backwards at the time.Edit: Here is a very similar tank slapper that ended a bit worse...crash at 3:10.[media]http://youtu.be/DAa0bgVZTPA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EarlyApex Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 Since the subject of this topic is the question, who is at fault? I thought I'd give $0.02.In CoF's racing incident, the black BMW has some fault. For one, it was this car that initially lost control. The other cars maintained control. And, not only did they lose control initially by driving off the pavement, but did several swerves during a prolonged loss of control moment. The majority of the fault is clearly with this car.The camera car and green car was accelerating, assuming the loss of control had been resolved, but it hadn't. These cars/drivers could have stayed on the brakes or accelerated less strongly and avoided the contract that looks to have ended their day.I really only write that to say, if you spin, both feet in. This is a classic example of why that rule exists. "Both feet in" would have saved both contacts and allowed all 3 cars to continue the race weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daily driver Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I was driving the camera car and the clutch was to the floor once I saw #29 get loose. However I could have applied more brakes sooner to potentially avoid the hit to my car...oops. At the time it was hard to imagine #29 would start flailing all over the place...it looked like he was just going into the dirt. The #31 car was blocking the view a bit and when I heard him hit the gas I thought it was all clear and lifted the brakes some. Maybe they had no choice but to gas it at that point. If they didn't get clipped the hit on my car could have been worse. A new fender and all is well...we got lucky. Only spent 10 minutes banging on it in the pits and headed back out faster than before...will have to write down the those new alignment specs. #31 continued on to take 2nd place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technical Advisory Committee Andrew D Johnson Posted January 6, 2012 Technical Advisory Committee Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 I was driving the camera car and the clutch was to the floor once I saw #29 get loose. However I could have applied more brakes sooner to potentially avoid the hit to my car...oops. At the time it was hard to imagine #29 would start flailing all over the place...it looked like he was just going into the dirt. The #31 car was blocking the view a bit and when I heard him hit the gas I thought it was all clear and lifted the brakes some. Maybe they had no choice but to gas it at that point. If they didn't get clipped the hit on my car could have been worse. A new fender and all is well...we got lucky. Only spent 10 minutes banging on it in the pits and headed back out faster than before...will have to write down the those new alignment specs. #31 continued on to take 2nd place.I think I would have ended up in the same predicament as you. That's really a shame, it looked like you were having a really fun race! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underdogg Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 FWIW, The CoF racing crew did a great job of getting that car back out on the track - we were pitted a few stalls down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daily driver Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Did you guys have video running in your car? You we're right behind me during my big spin two laps from the end. I will try and get video from our car up soon. It was a little spooky seeing you coming at me with tires locked up. Plenty of room even though I was still moving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underdogg Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 I do - but I had some serious contrast issues on the video - I'm pretty upset about it.I'll post it once I'm done with - its a bit hard to make out - but you can see it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underdogg Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 see below... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underdogg Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 finally got uploaded to youtubehttp://youtu.be/tbDOxMn7RrU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daily driver Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Thanks! I still need to cut my version out and upload it. Not real sure what happened there. The front right tire was rubbing hard on a fender in that corner and I think it helped a loose rear come around...yeah that 's what it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underdogg Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 From the angle your car has - I wonder if I will show up on your camera or not,I look forward to that vid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daily driver Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Yeah...looking right at you with tires locked up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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