[F500] Nelson weekend

[Jim Libecco]

That was actually the effect of that particularly gnarly thorny brush.
There were actually three different grits of prickly things out there.  Did
a great job, didn't it?  I might have to send the other three through to
make a matching set...

jim

-----Original Message-----
From: f500-bounces+iamuwere=ameritech.net at f500.org
[mailto:f500-bounces+iamuwere=ameritech.net at f500.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Blumenthal
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 6:29 PM
To: f500 at f500.org
Subject: Re: [F500] Nelson weekend

Jim,
 Who did you get to polish the wheel that flew off?  From the pictures 
you posted, it looks like Nelson's pond water must be good a cleaning 
wheels! ;-)
-Jeff

Jim Libecco wrote:

>It was a rather cold and destructive weekend at Nelson Ledges.
>
>Saturday, Chris Fedumenti, driving a "borrowed" QRE Invader jumped ahead of
>me on the start (thanks to Q clutching and 493 power) in some very nasty
>conditions.  Right before we took the track, a heavy downpour of SLEET
fell.
>Needless to say it was cold all day.  Adding freezing moisture to mix
didn't
>help at all.  I slipped to the inside coming out of turn two.  Chris made
it
>to turn three where he slid sideways and was run over by a vee.  The vee
ran
>down the whole side of the car, destroying the entire side of the body, at
>least the secondary clutch, trailing arm, and mirror.  I struggled through
>the miserable remainder of the race on slicks and managed to stay on
through
>the rest of the race.
>
>Sunday, I was finally getting the hang of the track and running some decent
>times (finally into the 1:10's).  Suddenly the car just whipped around in
>turn three (nearly at the exact same spot that Chris's car was run down).
I
>finally got out of the car (no corner workers could see me).  When I looked
>back, I initially thought the right rear wheel failed.  I looked again and
>realized the entire right rear hub had sheared off.  That really explained
>how the car went away sooo fast in that corner.
>
>The problem was, I wanted that wheel and tire back, since the tire was at
>least relatively good still (at least prior to the accident).  It wasn't
>around anywhere.  When I finally got to a corner, they said it was a flash
>that took off across the track.  At lunch, I went looking in the swamp.
>Amazingly, the severed wheel left the track, cleared the tire wall, cleared
>the corner station, cleared the back straight, bounced over the tire wall
>and ended up in the swamp past the back straight, three trees deep, wedged
>between two tree branches about three feet up.  The wheel still looks good.
>The tire looks good.  I just need a new hub, rotor, gear, chain, axle,
>trailing arm joints, and a diffuser...
>
>Photos at:
>www.libecco.com
>two albums inside.
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