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Originally posted by drew365
I don't understand where they were entering the track. At the events I've been to we enter at the end of the straight and have the inside lane to get to speed and merge. Were they doing something different here of did the car entering climb the banking too soon?
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They were only using the infield road course. Entry to that is in the middle of the front straight, just after a right-left chicane.
Track map
When I was instructing at the AMG challenge in April, we had cones setup to keep entering cars from shooting out onto the racing line. The front straight has grass runoff areas with concrete barriers on each side, no tire walls. The straight ends in a right-left combination that is very tight, but it was possible for the faster Daimler sedans to hit 125 going into the braking zone when they had the full front straight for acceleration.
I have to wonder if a HANS would have saved either man.
Godspeed, and prayers for the familes.
[edited to clarify front straight speed]