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Re: Nationals Sonoma Wreck 10 years, 1 month ago #18655

gnadenstoss OFFLINE Drivers Ed Posts: 11	Three cheers Buzzetti, that was a good post. GoPro makes it easy to analyze a race but live, on-track decisions are what count. I'm not part of this 944 club yet but what I've seen of this race was pretty sloppy. I hope the other 95% was clean racing. Just sayin....
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Re: Nationals Sonoma Wreck 10 years, 1 month ago #18656

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A very large portion of 944 racing is clean and competitive. This unfortunately was not our best showing.
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Re: Nationals Sonoma Wreck 10 years, 1 month ago #18660

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cbuzzetti wrote:

The same situation at T 4 but between Javier and Alberto. There was a failure of Alberto to get fully along side in the attempted pass to be easily seen. And Javier did not have the awareness to know Alberto moved into his blind spot. The result was the same, Javier took the apex and did not leave the 3/4 car width.

I cant tell if contact occurred between any of the cars.

Again this is just my opinion/observation.

I am of the opion that everyone has a portion of responsibility in every incident. Sometimes its 50/50 sometimes its 90/10.

I'll certainly own up to my share of responsibility on the T4 close call. It wasn't a planned pass attempt but a reaction to Javier braking sooner than I expected and thinking I might have room by moving to the inside. In retrospect I should have probably just stayed behind Javier and tailed him through T4. Of course then we'd probably be talking about the contact or near miss with Ken re-entering the track going into T5. So I can't complain too much to be honest, we had no contact but will take this as a learning opportunity.