Ya know.......

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by bsimms89

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: .

Everyone makes mistakes, my guess is that reply could/would get their sanctioning pulled. I'm sure some lawyer is looking at this right now and thinking "Yeah, that track liability waiver they had him accept is worthless in this situation." If the guy next to you fell off his bike and got run over unconscious would it be his fault for not crawling off the track? This went from a teachable moment to an unacceptable reply.