Good news is last I heard the driver was being kept for observation at the local hospital Saturday night but was expected to be fine. Very bad mishap on the exit side of Bishop's Bend that sent the car into the grass and ultimately the wall where it cracked the barrier in half.

 

Ouch!

 

I <3 e36s

 

thanks for the pictures and glad to see he is doing okay. I didn't want to be the asshole to take the pictures... lol

 

Alan Burgess was not so fortunate at the Double SARCC at Daytona ... RIP

 

What happened? I thought the road coarse at daytona is pretty hard to have a bad off since its all grassy infield?

 

There are only about 3 turns that lead to either nothing but grass or to another portion of track.. the rest of it skirts around inside the infield and has barriers.

 

Hmm, I've never run there, I've had a few chances but avoided it because my car would have to be re-geared for about 195 mph and with Daytona's banking there's a high risk of tire blowouts running a downforce car for the long straights at those speeds.

 

Alan's car caught fire coming out of NASCAR 4. Unfortunately the pin was left in his fire bottle so the system did not go off. By the time he came to a stop the car was so engulfed in flames that his skin had started to blister under the suit, his face shield melted, and one of his gloves was completely charred. He spent a while in the hospital in the ICU and unfortunately sometime in the past few days he passed away. Very sad.

 

I haven't been thru a safety tech for an open wheel race before LD, do the safety stewards check for things like that or do they check to see that a fire supression system is in the car?

It was very sad to hear. Our, well my old, SCCA District leader sent out the news.