track guy must see
 

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just show you guys what happed in buttonwillow on Sat, buy some good wheels!


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This is why every wheel I personally own is forged.

Forged is so expensive🙄🙄but is good anyway. BTW, Mike, how can we order maxis tires?

Forgestar?

;)

Good thing he had so much run off. If he was on a course, or section, with less that could have been very, very bad.

That guy is hilarious haha

Poor guy had to wait for what seemed like more than half the entire day for the event to end so they could tow his car from way out there. Everyone kept commenting about the unnerving sight of a car way out there just chilling in the mud when coming up on riverside...

I've never seen anyone so pumped about an off before.

Absolutely... I mean that is awesome that I lost a wheel and F'd up the front of my car! Sooo cool. Let's do it again. I'm sure I would have verbalized my feelings as well, but probably not so much on the excited side of the scale. Good for him to take it all in stride. Just a different kind of human.

Also a good lesson to share about the wheels for sure. And also maybe to try to not to jump the curbing at 80 as well. Clearly the wheel had an issue before he took to the track, but IMO hitting curb such that you leave the ground probably didn't help.

I've done that thousands of times with my BBS, and never had an issue. In fact, I'm the third owner of my set of BBS, and both previous owners had them on race cars that only saw track use.

Watch the video again, at 55s, dude looks left and sees his wheel flying away at what, 70mph? 85? If that's not a sight to see I don't know what is.

Having a good attitude about "shit happens" while doing this kind of thing is the difference between having a good time and doing it for most of your life or having high blood pressure, getting burned out, and being compared to Juan Pablo Montoya.

I'm not a track day guy (yet) but the one time I did do a day session at Watkins Glen my instructor frowned upon such things. The idea was to touch the edge of the curbing at the apex without hopping over it. Of course, as a very much amateur that I was, I certainly wasn't approaching the speeds this dude was in the turns so it was a lot easier to avoid such heavy contact. I was more interested in negotiating the course correctly than about lap times.

It just seems to me if you're not wheel to wheel with someone that leaving the ground might be able to be avoided? I'm sure I'll eat those words someday....