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Originally Posted by TimT View Post
I hit some tire barriers once, and got drenched with swampy, stagnant, mosquito larvae infest swamp water that must have been in the tires at Summit Point for years..

It was effing disgusting...
Sears Point has some nasty, brackish water.



Here's the foolhardy driver, moments before impact.



Closer in, you can see that it's a calm look, considering that I'd driven the car 364 miles to that track and would soon have to figure out how to drive it back home.



I'm looking in the direction the car is heading, but you can see the gasses expanding under the tires faster than it's moving, so the smoke is actually leading the way.

For the record, I did not bring my arms in, Danica-style. I haven't crashed enough times to have burned that into the circuits of my brain stem.
Old 05-01-2012, 08:33 PM
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