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A CCS club race. Several of my friends were there and told me how scary it was. This is the first time I found a video. Not a good place to crash, and I have yet to not crash in the rain
 and another with data 150mph in the wet Last edited by 5axis; 12-10-2007 at 03:38 AM.. |
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When I was roadracing, did it in a thunderstorm once. Had a lightening strike right in front of me......Had both the front and rear sliding at 80 thru one turn, not intentionally, that's for sure...
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That is nuts, David! I've only had one rain race at Willow Springs and it was not fun (slicks)! Bike racing and rain just don't mix, although if you have the opportunity to race in the rain, surely it must improve your dry skills quite a bit.
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I am 4 for 4 at crashing in the wet. Last time it was on a drying track. There was a decent dry line with the exceptions of puddles several inches deep and many "streams" running across the track. I decided on regular diablo DOTs instead of rains. I made it about 3 laps before sliding on my back into hot pit.
(Pit in was on the outside of the last turn.) It was a good outcome since I missed the pit wall and I had a short walk back to my trailer. 
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I kind of enjoy racing the kart in the rain. Not that I'm any good at it, I just like it. My first kart rain race, I did a 360 in the first turn on the first lap
 . I managed to finish the race though, probably the last kart still running though.Some tracks are more fun than others. Some tracks feel almost the same in the rain whether you're on slicks or rains, others the traction is very consistent with rain tires. The biggest problem with a kart (or anything I guess) in the rain is they slide about twice as far as the dry when you do crash. I tried road racing a bike in the rain once, it wasn't too scary considering I was going VERY slow .
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