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They should probably require people to do a few laps with an instructor before open lapping, especially if they have a high powered car.

Do they do any tech inspections?

I know chumpcars have nowhere near the power of some of those cars, but I have never seen anyone come close to that wall beyond 12. All the more reason to be careful about letting inexperienced people let fly with those things.

At the same time, you can only protect people from themselves so much.

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I have a good pic of the Subaru on the flatbed as it was passing if someone wants me to text it to u. I don't have a way to post pic.
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Holy crap! Did his brakes go out too?

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Holy cow. This all re-enforces my fear/respect for turnsies. I'm a straight line guy, not that it doesn't come without it's own risks either. I just don't have the balls for hard turns at high mph.

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The guy in the Subaru was pretty experienced, it wasn't his first time by any means.

Stuff like this happens, and I really hope more people start to take road course stuff more seriously. I cant tell you how many people I lectured this weekend about car prep (specifically brakes).

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There were three instructors giving rides Sunday morning. I went out with a guy in a 400whp Evo on slicks. Scared the crap out of me, but he showed me all the lines and had a lot of good advice. The other newbs went with one of the girls in an STI. We ended passing a lot higher horsepower Z06 that couldn't put down the power in the rain. AWD dominated the day yesterday.

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That was my take-away from the weekend, I'll be upgrading my brakes before I ever get out on the course again. I could feel mine fading by the end of each session but would come back -5% each time the new session started.

After a quick tune on E85, I estimate I was making about 350whp, so power was definitely not a problem.

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Anyone else besides me dying to see some footage of this madness!? Wades insane run of 9.2 what did Mark run? I heard about spazzy today as well, sounds like quite a few people have issues with brakes...and making sure their vehicle is up to par. Im sure spaz wasnt being reckless he is a pretty good driver at least from what ive seen and heard over the years on this forum :( Im sad about his evo...even more disturbed about his injuries hope he recovers soon!

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What did the black n white supra's run?

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I have wades and many others runs at the drag strip and i am putting together a killer video for style. we were in the sweets so sound was kinda quiet but thats ok I can add some music to it all. maybe some of my own music just for taste.

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the white supra was 14's didnt hit boost till 8th mile when I saw it.

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i gotta say the op's times were very nice. self tuner and a very nice guy

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Here is the video I have, I hope your video is from a better vantage point and with a better camera lol!

http://youtu.be/6lnFhEgPtu4

If someone can embed this or tell me how that would be cool.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lnFhEgPtu4&hd=1

Just add youtube tags around it and it will embed. Nice vid!

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i was standing right there with you but yes the vids in the sweet should be nice.

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I think you mean "suite".

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White supra from Canada went 10.2 I believe.

Honda Nate ran his first ever 9 sec pass, was a 9.94

Wade and his 9.2 was awesome, hoping to see him run some 8's this year

Kyle drove our Evo to a new personal best of 9.39 and both of our Camaro's ran new bests. The 2010 equipped with our stage 2 package went 12.49@115 and the 69 went 10.7@129 on 12psi :)

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Nate got beat by a auto dsm? No way! Lol