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Shitty indeed! Hope he's okay!

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very shitty, get better spaz!!

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Well, unfortunately it sounds like it may be fairly serious. He is being transferred right now. Nothing for sure, but it sounds like possible broken hip. Hopefully it isn't. I got a text from him a bit ago, so at least he is texting. We have our fingers crossed for ya Spaz!

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ugh, good luck man!!

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I saw spaz's evo and it looked rough. There was also an sti that wrecked.

On a better note, I ran a 9.2 in the talon and got the boot!

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9.2. Damn nice! What you trap?

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Nice job wade. You spraying out of the hole?

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Hellz yeah! Nice work.
Trap speed is top sekretz I'm sure.

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God damn wade nice work.

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Mondale which one was your DSM?

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^^^ Maroon 1G. Yes. Hoosiers.

Sounds like 9.2 is the 2nd quickest e.t on the boards.

Good job!

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The one with the Hoosier tires?

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Sucks to hear about spaz!

Nice job on the time tho Wade!

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yes he was on the spray. was kinda messed up he rolled through backed up dre left and they let him run solo. was crazy to watch how nice it went down. congrats man

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Lots of people asking so im soreadin the word here--Finally got word from spaz: multiple hip fractures and super low hemoglobin so they transferred him to HCMC to look for internal bleeding. He'll be in hospital for another day or so, can't walk and no car for 6 weeks.

If anyone has spare time/space to help bring his stuff back ill be organizing an effort, and if anyone knows where the car is lemme know!

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English?

Dr. Dre?

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http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...7c5c7f5cb4.jpg

Here is the slip from the run. I am having trouble getting the car to stay put when stalling up. I think that there is a hydraulic issue and will be digging into it soon. I will also have to raise the rev limit a little as this run i was bouncing off the limiter in 3rd, but I did also short shift 1st I think. I use a 100 shot to stall. This is the first time that the car has actually worked well with the auto. I ran a 9.7 off the trailer, then a 9.6 against Dippy's black 2.5rs, then ran the 9.2. I will try to get back to the track with the car going to 9k and see if I can get an 8 second pass. If not I have a lot of weight that can come out, and can make more power on different injectors as my FIC 2150's are maxed out. A huge thanks goes out to RSmotors as Ron has helped me with the tune and stall up a ton. Also Matt/fobiafab, and brownman and anyone else that has lent a hand over the last few years. This thing is a blast to drive!!
-Wade

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Very nice pass. Its good to see a big turbo auto doing Work. keep it up.

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Damn impressive time slip. 60' and trap are kick ass!

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Hell of a good pass, Wade. Also, your run against Dip was one of the best drag races I've ever witnessed before. Keep up the good work! 8's are just around the corner!

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Holy 60'!

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Nice to see you getting better with each pass. I'm always down to help good people, I'm expecting to see 8s before the year is out.

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Those 60' and 1/8 MPH are crazy good!

Car sounded nice and made me think you were Ross a few times,
Cars are super similar looking!

-Colin

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Thanks for the kind words, guys!

I'm alright, the car is toast, and I'll be on crutches/walker/wheelchair for the next 6 weeks or so.

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Ouch man, really sorry to hear but glad it wasn't worse.

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Great weekend, got to put some faces to screen names. Congrats Wade, car looks great!

On the Spaz note, I talked to a few people that saw the accident. There's a whole wall of tires where he hit and somehow he hit the only part that was just concrete. He was able to spin the car so the passenger side hit and probably scrubbed off some speed, but hit the wall hard enough that the car went up and people could see the chassis for a second. It was good to hear yesterday that he's doing alright, unfortunately, the car is mangled pretty bad. Pretty scary stuff.

On a sidenote, I heard there was a third car that wrecked yesterday afternoon, a new Fiat Abarth. It was a tough weekend on the road course.

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Glad to hear you're alright man, that's some scary shit. Every time I came into that section of the course, I was nervous.

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That fiat wrecked? :(

I heard an RSX wrecked but it was just in passing...

Glad to see you're ok spaz!

-Colib

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Bug eye STi was wrecked also. Aim for the tires next time Spaz!!

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Glad to hear you're okay, Spaz.

Were all these wrecks on the road course? In the rain?

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Didn't that Evo that crashed in one of the past years also "just miss" the tires too? Was it that same spot?

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no spaz and the subalu were sat. i saw that fiat drag sat and did see it on the road coarse on sunday in the rain maybe i left too soon to see the crasg

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Were these accidents at turn 12 just before the bridge?

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Sounds like they really need to do something to better protect drivers around that turn at the least. Why they dont put some type of crash barrier that actually has some give on each corner is beyond me. Nothing in front of concrete barriers seems like a stupid idea.

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Yes.

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For all the arm chair speculation... that whole turn 12 has a tire wall of at least 1000 tires. When spaz went sideways he hit the one 3 ft section that is not covered because it is a drive out for safety workers. Spaz has bad luck.

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Does anyone have any videos/pictures of those wrecks?

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Thats what I heard as well about the part he hit, hard to visualize without seeing it. Seems like something could still be put there as resistance if people keep crashing in this area. Just glad his ordeal wasnt worse.

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Those barriers aren't even close to the track. And they added a shit load of tires to it after that Evo got totalled a couple years ago when it went straight off at 90mph.

Nothing is going to fix random failures, over driving a car, small errors that turn big, etc. Road course driving is very dangerous, your car has to hold together for more than a 1/4 mile and you aren't hitting cones, you are possibly hitting walls and trees. The lack of driver training and allowing anyone to get out there and drive is always scary to me at the PG events.

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RSMotors is trying to do something about that with our DCTC driving events. This Proving ground there was a serious lack of instructors from BIR (I saw 1 on sunday) to help out with the newer drivers. MAP PG will need more instructors if they wanna keep having driving events @ PG.