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Originally Posted by bpu699
Out of curiosity, for those who have been doing this a long time... how many crashes involve accidents where cars crash into each other? How rare is that with HPDE?
In the 2-3 HPDE sessions I have seen, each had 1-2 "accidents." Some minor damage, some totalled. But all of them were single car accidents where someone slid into an immovable object... The speeds the top groups manage to attain are pretty notable. At the milwaukee mile most drivers barely manage to hit 100mph as a top speed. There was an accident I saw where a vette hit the wall, and the driver thought he was hitting 140mph in the straights/turns... Thats some serious speed, to be in a vette with a harness bar...
How many are car-to-car incidents in HPDE? 1%?
I love driving my car at HPDE (addictive, I know). But my goal is never top speed. Whats the point? All the fun is in the turns... I would be scared silly to drive a street car at 150mph... Maybe its just me, the risk/reward curve is well past its peak at that point... How much more fun are you going to have at 150mph that you cant have at 110? And the level of risk is likely exponential...
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I have done maybe 100 track days over the past 10 years in Australia, Canada, the US and Europe, I have never seen porsche-on-porsche violence at any DE event. Its always been spins into walls or trees.
Early in the day it seems equipment failures (waterpumpers dropping fluid or the good cars dropping oil) or heroics.
Mid-day seems the safest.
After 2:00 mental acuity drops off and people get sloppy. Tires start getting old, so there is another rash of spins and episodes.
Last session seems OK...the wankers have already crashed out or quit, those left want to get some last smiles in but want to bring it home safe.