How safe are you at night in the pits!

Wade Mahaffey · 02-24-2010, 08:56 PM

wow! Jim that deserves a thread all to itself. If you followed me, you would be heading underground somewhere ie tunnel, drainage pipe etc. You could truly what-if this thing to death. If it was a twister in the daytime that I could see comming, I would try to determine/project the path of travel. Then I would steal the closest pit bike and HAUL ***!!! I do have moto-cross skills!
I have no experience and/or training in this matter. That senario could be a disaster at the track or anywhere else. The thread here is about preventing and mitigating events and/or situations. I would be extremely rich if I could prevent a storm.

Also I wanted to add that we narrowly missed a MCI (Mass Casualty Incident) in Pheonix
last weekend by a few feet either way. If that tire would have made it's way into the stands, racers with EMS skills would have been pressed into action as well as some regular Joes. It would have taxed even the great Fire & Rescue Department of Pheonix.

The heart attack save in the pits in Gainsville last weekend had a positive outcome, only because it happend on day shift. If it would have happened at night with any delay......

Wade Mahaffey

Jim Bailey · 02-24-2010, 09:50 PM

Wade, I get it ....but my point is, you're in your motorhome with 600 other racers... sleeping ... the races have been called because of weather. The hail wakes you up .... It gets calm ... then,,, the big train is coming !!!!... What do you do?... It's dark, all hell's breakin' lose and you and 600 other racers are looking for cover ? or do you get under the bed and hang on???... I don't know.... I know all about what to do in my home or out in the open. And I really don't like the idea of diving in a water filled ditch in Gainesville, Georgia, or Louisiana. I was just asking for suggestions or ideas.

Wade Mahaffey · 02-24-2010, 10:40 PM

Jim, you don't give me much to work with in that senario. But I was in a situation once while at a race by myself. A pretty bad storm had blown up and I had planned that if it got much worse, I was going to suit up with helmet and strap in the racecar which was strapped down in the trailer with my living quarters. I would close the propane valve on the motorhome and disconnect all power and put any gas can outside the trailer . Lock down all equitmment in the trailer as if going on the road. You can't get much safer than being strapped in that car and inside the trailer with no windows! Be sure to tell your neighbors (several) that you'll be inside the trailer! Hope this helps Jim,

Wade Mahaffey

02-24-2010, 08:56 PM	#1
Wade Mahaffey Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 581 Likes: 0 Liked 18 Times in 8 Posts	Re: How safe are you at night in the pits! wow! Jim that deserves a thread all to itself. If you followed me, you would be heading underground somewhere ie tunnel, drainage pipe etc. You could truly what-if this thing to death. If it was a twister in the daytime that I could see comming, I would try to determine/project the path of travel. Then I would steal the closest pit bike and HAUL ***!!! I do have moto-cross skills! I have no experience and/or training in this matter. That senario could be a disaster at the track or anywhere else. The thread here is about preventing and mitigating events and/or situations. I would be extremely rich if I could prevent a storm. Also I wanted to add that we narrowly missed a MCI (Mass Casualty Incident) in Pheonix last weekend by a few feet either way. If that tire would have made it's way into the stands, racers with EMS skills would have been pressed into action as well as some regular Joes. It would have taxed even the great Fire & Rescue Department of Pheonix. The heart attack save in the pits in Gainsville last weekend had a positive outcome, only because it happend on day shift. If it would have happened at night with any delay...... Wade Mahaffey

02-24-2010, 09:50 PM	#2
Jim Bailey Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 674 Likes: 15 Liked 584 Times in 94 Posts	Re: How safe are you at night in the pits! Wade, I get it ....but my point is, you're in your motorhome with 600 other racers... sleeping ... the races have been called because of weather. The hail wakes you up .... It gets calm ... then,,, the big train is coming !!!!... What do you do?... It's dark, all hell's breakin' lose and you and 600 other racers are looking for cover ? or do you get under the bed and hang on???... I don't know.... I know all about what to do in my home or out in the open. And I really don't like the idea of diving in a water filled ditch in Gainesville, Georgia, or Louisiana. I was just asking for suggestions or ideas.

02-24-2010, 10:40 PM	#3
Wade Mahaffey Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 581 Likes: 0 Liked 18 Times in 8 Posts	Re: How safe are you at night in the pits! Jim, you don't give me much to work with in that senario. But I was in a situation once while at a race by myself. A pretty bad storm had blown up and I had planned that if it got much worse, I was going to suit up with helmet and strap in the racecar which was strapped down in the trailer with my living quarters. I would close the propane valve on the motorhome and disconnect all power and put any gas can outside the trailer . Lock down all equitmment in the trailer as if going on the road. You can't get much safer than being strapped in that car and inside the trailer with no windows! Be sure to tell your neighbors (several) that you'll be inside the trailer! Hope this helps Jim, Wade Mahaffey Last edited by Wade Mahaffey; 02-24-2010 at 10:43 PM.