Originally Posted by
LDadrenaline
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.
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I see people out there spending money on the car to improve it … If you spend half that effort just working on your driving skills, making you and the car work together as a team, then you’ll go faster – period. To make the car go a second faster on the track takes a lot more energy and money than making yourself drive it one second faster.
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