Speed Week accidents

[woz]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10264557


Woz

[NArias3]

Good to know everybody survived.  It's a testament to the SCTA, ECTA & DLRA's rules.

Nick 3rd.

[LSR Mike]

More here. along with some great views of the course, check the video upper Right.

http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=F5E33A10-8425-4706-8C57-3CD77B0ECD61&gsa=true

[LVMAXX]

 

[LSR Mike]

Lakester at 240 MPH, check the link...

[a-zonie]

Thanks for the links. That's a beautiful shot of the course (#2) in the NBC news slide show. Sounds like everyone involved in the accidents is okay and that's good.

[4-barrel Mike]

Only one vehicle on the pre-entry list matches up with each of the reported hometowns of the drivers.  These may not be the correct vehicles.

3000 AA BGMS BONNER'S BAD BERKLEY TUCSON AZ
I don't see a run for this one on the very slow (busy!) SCTA site.

427 F GS P.O.P. MOTORSPORTS PISMO BEACH CA
 427 E      GS      POP Motorsports 192.444 204.419 228.789 239.895 242.087 crash at 5 mile

4011 XO GS FORTY ELEVEN LANDER WY
4011 XO     GS      Forty Eleven 138.957 143.583 161.317 175.508 181.120 crash at 7 mile

Mike

[4-barrel Mike]

Found it! (I think):

3000 Bonner's Bad Berkley AA/BGMS 254.140 outside lights at mile 5 8:00:58 185.432 203.472 244.151

This was on the record run Tuesday.

The other two were on down runs on Wednesday.

Mike

[AJR192]

Bonner's didn't crash. His car was sitting in his pits when we left the salt last night. Both of the cars that crashed were on the same page in the program-Bad omen if you ask me. 4011's driver might have broken his wrist, I was told by one of his crew. Gail was out of the car before the rescue crews got to the car. They announced she was a little bruised up but ok. Both cars looked like they held up reasonably well. Sound construction.

[woz]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10273201

looks like another incident


Woz

[Wester]

The car Gail was driving is the #427 streamliner Doug Odom has been working on.  The car spent a year in Australia after bad weather cancelled the Lake Gairdner event.  Doug had checked it out on a previous run.  They are home with the car now in "Big Ditch".

Salt Lake's Channel 4 does their usual stellar job of screwing up racing coverage. If news organizations would ever check their facts before publishing their stories it would be nice.  They totally missed reporting on the higher speed runs and the huge number of fast passes that resulted in a crowded impound area.  I guess it isn't news unless someone is hurt.

[AJR192]

The only news coverage from Salt Lake that was ever any good that I can remember was when Dick Rosetta was the sports editor of the Salt Lake Tribune. I am sure when Ab Jenkins or any of the other well known racers of that era were racing, it was big news. World news. Now it seems it is just another 30 second spectacle in the busy modern world. What a shame.   

[Jarlo]

The last 2 posts on this thread have it exactly right. Just ask Don Henley; when he wrote the song "Dirty Laundry".
"Is the head dead yet?"
Regards,
 Jim

[RayTheRat]

+1.  The abysmal Tribune stories and sensationalism in general displayed by the media...well, I know that I don't hold much credence in that they "report."

When I was in the military, I was advised to believe nothing I heard and only half of what I saw.  That's turned out to be pretty good advice.

I got back yesterday afternoon after a morning of roaming the pits, chatting with people and shooting photos.  Those photos will be on my website soon. 

Thanks to Jarlo for a wonderful visit and that heaven-sent shade!

Now...where's my breakfast?

Ray the Rat

[doug odom]

This is the reason the last thing my wife has said to me for the last 40 years when I leave to go racing is " I love you and I don't want to see you on the news"