Loco Honkey
Banned
I'd like to take this time to give you all a little reality check...
Rt. 17 is an unforgiving road. There's blind, off camber turns. There's long sweeping downhill turns that easily let you hit triple digit speeds, and then suddenly, you're faced with a decreasing radius that requires you to slow down to 40 in about 100'.
Every year, a few people die on the road. Mostly motorcyclists, but a few cage drivers. I'm not saying this to make it sound like the road is out to get you, but goddamnit, use your head. You've never driven this road before. I have. I don't give a damn if you're Takumi Fujiwara or if you can drift with your knee while lighting a cigarette... You have nothing to prove to me or anyone else up there. If you want to race me, invite me to an open track day, and let's even the playing field by using the same car (mine or yours; I don't care).
Liquid00meth could very well have wrecked his car or been seriously injured or even died, and he is very lucky. He's a perfect example of an inexperienced driver in a slow car trying to keep pace with a seasoned driver in a fast car. Some days you can pull it off for a while. Either way, you'll either wake up, or end up in the weeds, or both. I'm not saying that to belittle him. Rather, I'm using it as a prime example of just how quickly things can and will go bad up there. Had he not been last in line, he would have caused an accident.
I want to see at least 100' between cars while we're up there, and I want you to pay attention to what the person in front of you is doing. If you don't feel you can safely keep up, pull over and let the people behind you pass. If you want to bring a helmet, you can. I most likely will be wearing mine this time. Also, since we're going to spend more than one run (about a half hour each way) up there, I'd like to check everyone's vehicles out to make sure there are no incidents. Excessive, maybe, but in my ~8 years of hosting VT meets, I've never had an accident. 'Meth's spin was the worst that's ever happened, and I'd like to keep it that way. I also look at it like this- the type of driving we'll be doing on this road is the same type of driving you'd find at an open track day, so why not inspect the vehicles?
I don't have a problem with excessive speeding. All I'm trying to say is that we REALLY need to be careful.
Rt. 17 is an unforgiving road. There's blind, off camber turns. There's long sweeping downhill turns that easily let you hit triple digit speeds, and then suddenly, you're faced with a decreasing radius that requires you to slow down to 40 in about 100'.
Every year, a few people die on the road. Mostly motorcyclists, but a few cage drivers. I'm not saying this to make it sound like the road is out to get you, but goddamnit, use your head. You've never driven this road before. I have. I don't give a damn if you're Takumi Fujiwara or if you can drift with your knee while lighting a cigarette... You have nothing to prove to me or anyone else up there. If you want to race me, invite me to an open track day, and let's even the playing field by using the same car (mine or yours; I don't care).
Liquid00meth could very well have wrecked his car or been seriously injured or even died, and he is very lucky. He's a perfect example of an inexperienced driver in a slow car trying to keep pace with a seasoned driver in a fast car. Some days you can pull it off for a while. Either way, you'll either wake up, or end up in the weeds, or both. I'm not saying that to belittle him. Rather, I'm using it as a prime example of just how quickly things can and will go bad up there. Had he not been last in line, he would have caused an accident.
I want to see at least 100' between cars while we're up there, and I want you to pay attention to what the person in front of you is doing. If you don't feel you can safely keep up, pull over and let the people behind you pass. If you want to bring a helmet, you can. I most likely will be wearing mine this time. Also, since we're going to spend more than one run (about a half hour each way) up there, I'd like to check everyone's vehicles out to make sure there are no incidents. Excessive, maybe, but in my ~8 years of hosting VT meets, I've never had an accident. 'Meth's spin was the worst that's ever happened, and I'd like to keep it that way. I also look at it like this- the type of driving we'll be doing on this road is the same type of driving you'd find at an open track day, so why not inspect the vehicles?
I don't have a problem with excessive speeding. All I'm trying to say is that we REALLY need to be careful.
