When Subarus Try To Keep Up with 911's .....

[cegerer]

http://homepage.mac.com/mrspleen/iMovieTheater3.html#

[Todd Simpson]

That's a classic.

The crash occurred during the first session (which makes it suck even more - I only got about 16min of track time!). Things had been going pretty well so far, I was feeling pretty smooth. I already had a Porsche 911 spin two cars ahead of me on the very first lap under green, but he didn't hit anything and was fine. No biggie. There was moderate traffic, so I hadn't really had a good lap in the first 15min or so of the session. At the time of the crash I was following an older 911 down the No Name straight, in 4th gear probably doing about 85mph, maybe 90mph. At the end of No Name straight is a pretty tight right hander that goes up a rather steep incline. You clip the apex on the inside right, then drift out to the left side of the track at the top of the hill. (The Speedvision cars run the chicane at the top of the hill, as you may have seen on TV. That's to keep the speeds down so they don't get airborne at the top of the Uphill. For us normal folks, the chicane is coned off and we just go straight at the top of the hill). On the inside of the turn is all dirt, on the outside of the turn is a guardrail probably about 8-10' from the edge of the track. Due to the traffic situation, on the first 8 or 10 laps we had been taking the Uphill really slow - I was downshifting to 3rd and taking the corner at probably only 60-65mph (compared to about 75-80mph the last time I was at Lime Rock). So, this time around the 911 and I had a little bit of freedom from slower cars, and were able to carry more speed into the Uphill turn. Basically, I came into the turn way too hot - I don't think I hit the brakes at all, and I didn't let off the gas on the straight soon enough. As stupid as it seems, I think I just remembered wrong from the last time I was at the track. I was thinking I was able to enter the turn in 4th without really letting off, but I was wrong. Oops.

http://opentracking.com/rolled_it.htm

[Aurel]

This video features a wrx litteraly smoking a 911. At least, they do well on a straight line...

Aurel