Posted: January 30 2005 at 4:31pm | IP Logged

Title says it all

Moti <Hoping>

Posted: January 30 2005 at 9:39pm | IP Logged

My white coupe and buddies GT...

Neat Plymouth Laser AWD

Half an Evo.........

The other half........

Posted: January 31 2005 at 10:25am | IP Logged

Prolene wrote: Given the 'unforseen' incident at WSIR, I likely will get a full roll cage for the S2000, since my Honda is seeing a lot of track time.

Very good idea!

Posted: January 31 2005 at 12:07pm | IP Logged

Driver actually responded to the SoCal EVO forums! He's doing okay, from what it seems.

http://www.socalevo.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6908&start=15

Posted: January 31 2005 at 4:30pm | IP Logged

The driver seems to be okay, he is actually shown here in the picture above, he's the tall guy with the light grey shirt, the car was a fully built racecar with a cage and all the required safety equipment, definitely a good thing to have in this case.

Moti.

Posted: February 01 2005 at 9:40am | IP Logged

Man, after seeing that wreck it has me seriously considering a cage.  Anyone know of a shop in SoCal that does installs...preferrably on the west side?

In other news, I have some in car video from the event on Saturday...nothing spectacular, just a few clear hotlaps, and a compilation of traffic/point-bys.

If anyone is interested, let me know what you were driving and I'll see if I have any video.

For what it's worth I was driving a silver R32, and ran predominently with white, but did a few laps with blue as well.

Posted: February 01 2005 at 10:19am | IP Logged

allenhah wrote: One thing that really disturbed me was how long it took for a paramedic to get to the scene...aren't we required to have one on site at all times during these events??

I have the answer to this question now. The short answer is that medical was immediately at the crash assessing the driver. The long answer follows:

As event organizers who are committed to always having emergency medical personell at every event, we have 2 choices in our approach. We can either have an Ambulance on site, or we can have a fire/rescue truck staffed by EMT's (same as ambulance drivers) on site. At different tracks we make different choices between the two based upon specifics of the track. At WSIR we choose fire/rescue over an ambulance.

We do this because serious crashes are more likely at a track like WSIR, and fire/rescue can cut a car open to extract a driver, which an ambulance can not. They're also, obviously, much stronger at putting out car fires. Since fire/rescue is staffed by EMT's, once you can be removed from the car, they can administer the same aid/sabilization efforts that an ambulance can, so there's no disadvantage there. If you are seriously injured at WSIR, the amulance is not going to drive you to Lancaster, they are going to call a chopper to airlift you to the trama ward. For that reason, there is no advantage to using an ambulance over fire/rescue.

The driver in this case was not seriously injured, so a flight was not called. He was assessed by the EMTs from the FR truck, found to be ok, and an amulance was called from in town to take him for a "safe side" assessment at the hospital. As you know, he's fine and he's been emailing me about his plans for his new Evo today, actually

Hopefully this explaination reassures you about the safety planning at the event. What may have appeared to be a long wait for an ambulance to assess the driver actually occured after the driver had been assessed and found to be ok. He would have gotten to the hospital much quicker had he been found to be injured.

Posted: February 02 2005 at 1:00pm | IP Logged

Wow, did this happen after they towed that coupe (Maserati?) that stopped between T3 and T4 or another time?  I left after 4:30 and had no idea about the accident.  What part of the track?

Glad the driver is OK.

Posted: February 02 2005 at 1:27pm | IP Logged

Oh OK, I forgot about Sunday, I was only there on Sat.

Posted: February 02 2005 at 1:49pm | IP Logged

For anybody interested in getting a cage or any welding work done in the SoCal area, contact Gary Steen.   He's in Long Beach and does better work than I have ever seen.

If anybody wants to check out my cage, you are more than welcome and he's familiar with the S2000.

Give him a cal: 562 989 1616

Posted: February 04 2005 at 12:32am | IP Logged

I have the Maserati, by the way.  The problem was a computer malfunction.  Dealer just had to reset it.