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: 8 car pile up at Road America w2w race last month :( chris101 09-08-2009, 10:36 AM OUCH turn up the volume really loud to hear the commentary by my friend Jarrad in the orange Miata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQe0JV_8Yw0 awdracer 09-08-2009, 11:06 AM What the heck happened? chris101 09-08-2009, 11:32 AM there was oil on the track, corner workers failed to show yellow/red striped flag det-ser92 09-08-2009, 12:59 PM wow. Rockwood 09-08-2009, 04:12 PM there was oil on the track, corner workers failed to show yellow/red striped flag They just sat there, staring at the 7 cars smashed up on the outside of that corner and didn't think to warn someone? chris101 09-08-2009, 05:29 PM I wasn't there so I don't know all the details but I'm sure eventually I will hear more about it from fellow spec miata racers or Jarrad himself (who was in the orange miata making the commentary) det-ser92 09-08-2009, 05:34 PM you can see the guy chillin @ :19, then no corner guy @ :32 budgetNX 09-10-2009, 03:15 PM omg.. thats about all i got Rob 09-10-2009, 08:31 PM hope those corner workers got their asses kicked and are banned from the track forever. chris101 09-19-2009, 11:13 AM I'm not sure I'll ever hear about what happened to the corner workers on this one... dkmura 09-19-2009, 02:42 PM In fairness, the corner workers have little time to react in the Carousel. We have no idea from that video how long it was before the initial Miata with the oil leak had put down the oil and the crash occurred. It's unfortunate the flag didn't come out, but these folks are VOLUNTEERS and I'm glad they're out there to watch my a$$. Mistakes don't mean you kick people out... chris101 09-19-2009, 03:02 PM I volunteered once to work a corner.. its NOT easy and I made my own rookie mistake that caused the wrong person to get black flagged.. thing is, I owned up to it and apologized when I realized my mistake.. ..when I was driving and it happened to me (I was black flagged for the OTHER Miata's passing on yellow violation) and even after I showed proof on my in-car video along with witness who saw the other red miata do the deed, I never got an apology nor was I rewarded my position back and lost 8 places because of human error.. and so it goes :( Sunny 09-20-2009, 04:07 AM that is very very scary waiting for what might be another impact coming.:eek: | ||