rec.autos.simulators

> > >> Just seven laps into the race, someone looses it in turn 3, and
> > >> instantly, four or five cars out of 15 are eliminated from the race.

> > Well I didn't make it. I ended up taking a friend's Saturday shift.
Gotta
> work
> > this Sat too so I'll miss next week. But...who lost it at Pocono seven
> laps in?
> > Curiosity = dead cat :)
> > Dan

> Me and I wasn't the first to spin. Outside pole looped it on the first lap
> and someone else spun in front of me on the way to the caution on lap 1.
In
> my unfortunate incident, I got distracted watching David go through T3
> practically sideways(nice save) and went in too hot. Car behind T-boned me
> and then I was flipping and spinning. 2 or 3 cars farther back joined in a
> little later. Won't be happening again since I'm not running anymore.
> Everyone that isn't a *** continue to have fun.

> Kyle

> John made an unecessary comment after the yellow came out when Kyle spun.

> > >Me and I wasn't the first to spin. Outside pole looped it on the first
> lap
> > >and someone else spun in front of me on the way to the caution on lap 1.
> In
> > >my unfortunate incident, I got distracted watching David go through T3
> > >practically sideways(nice save) and went in too hot. Car behind T-boned
> me
> > >and then I was flipping and spinning. 2 or 3 cars farther back joined in
> a
> > >little later. Won't be happening again since I'm not running anymore.
> > >Everyone that isn't a *** continue to have fun.

> > Why are you calling anyone a ***?  Just because someone spun, you start
> > calling names...?

> > Eldred

> John made an unecessary comment after the yellow came out when Kyle spun.

> David G Fisher

> : After getting caught up in someone elses spin for the second time, my
rear
> : end was hosed.  After repairs (LOL!) I went into turn 1, the rear came
> : around due to no down-force, and I corrected.  Then the front end
snapped
> : around and man I hit the wall like head-on.  That was the fastest
snap-to
> : and hit into the wall I think I've ever experienced in Nascar Racing.  I
> was
> : hurt too bad to continue after that.
> :
> : Pocono can really kill race cars.  Them walls is hard!
> :
> : Speaking of which, am I the only one that was holding their breath until
> : they saw Green get out of that #1 car?  That almost ranks up there with
> : Michael Waltrips instant-destructo wreck at Bristol several years back
> when
> : he hit that gate entrance coming out of 4.
> :
> : I was very, very concerned over that #1 car wreck.
> :
> : -Larry
> :


> :
> <snip>

>      Yepper, I was definatly watching to see how he was, hard to believe
he
> hit the one place that did not have the earthen wall behind it.
>      After watching Kenny get out his barrel role and fire so
non-chalantly,
> well I am starting to think they have these drivers pretty well protected.
> It's those damn sliding sideways into walls that seems to really be
hurting
> drivers anymore.

>      My replay of our contact is actually pretty kewl, I was slowing a
good
> bit going into corners because I was so loose.  I go into the corner and
you
> can just see that my ass is*** out, you had already been catching me
> and came in exactly the same *BUT FASTER* :-0  I was up a lane but you
were
>*** out too and we just touched, it was like a bomb went off between
us
> or something, we just exploded apart and I into the wall.  That really
> killed my handling and then I double downshifted into second (oops) going
> into three and I whipped around.  That killed my engine and ended my race
> :-(
> --
> McWhom
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