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Originally Posted by Billy Nees
I went to a T&T at my local track yesterday. The place was packed! On my second pass, I am lined up against a "Kid" in a brand new Coyote Mustang. Nice, fast car. Now, I'm in a high 12 second,100 MPH car and this Mustang is an 11 second car (with a "Kid" in it).
If you think that this is going to be a heart-warming thread about an "Old Poop" and a "Kid" bonding then stop reading now. This "Kid" who is probably 100-150 feet in front of me in the shut-down area decides to take the early return road and cuts right in front of me without even looking!!! Try "slaloming" your Stocker sometime.
Uhh, I understand that without "Kids" we won't have a sport in a few years and I love the fact that anyone can go and buy performance cars again but,,,,,,,,,,,, a little common sense maybe? Or do we have to start having "How to Drag Race" classes and "Drag Racing Etiquette" seminars at the beginning of each race day?
OK, I'm done.
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I've had a similar experience at a test and tune at Lebanon Valley last October, the track activated the tree and sent me while they had a car broken down at the first turnoff IN MY LANE as I made a pass of 8.56 @ 159mph, had to brake as hard as possible. I found the guy that broke down in the pits, he said the car on his inside turned off very slow so he had to stop then his car just died. I emailed the track to just to make sure they were aware what happened so it could be avoided in the future, the track manager responded to me that it's normal for them to send the next cars before the previous cars have exited at the top and and that it's the fault of the broken down car and he should've moved to the side of the lane. So I know how you feel, its not fun having to make a maneuver like that on the shutdown. I actually had a camera in my dash on the run:
My first thought was to move to my left towards the other lane, but they had lined me up with a motorcycle in the left lane who I was out in front of and couldn't see and didn't want to risk knocking the driver off the bike.