[Wichita-SCCA] Auto-x finish gone wrong

[Tim Harmon]

I remember a Salina event a "few" years ago where Godzilla (those of  
us more experienced, NOT older will remember the monster car) was  
storming back north toward the paddock end when it had a brake disc  
blow up taking out the brakes. Could have been ugly, luckily was not.
th


On Apr 24, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Greg Laws wrote:

> Where the design of the shutdown got into trouble was that it  
> didn't allow
> for the "what if" question.  What if the driver is not competent  
> and fumbles
> the clutch/brake pedal?  What if we have a car that experiences  
> sudden brake
> failure?  Where is he going to end up if that happens?  The answer  
> with this
> shutdown design is that a car would have nowhere to go but through  
> the exit
> gate and straight across the access road into the cars and any  
> people who
> might be around at the moment if either of those things  
> happened ... and one
> of them did.