Yesterday was the first time I ever scared the crap out of myself.... Hitting a wall head on sucks, but it would have been life ending without the air fences. Save me, and the bike... Support WERA's Air Fence Fund! The day you need it will be the day you were glad it was the best money donated, your life might just depended on it. (Of course not hitting a wall in the first place is key, but shit happens) :up:
The Roadracing World Action Fund--a 501 (c)3 not for profit organization--is happy to be working with WERA and other organizations on Airfence deployment at Road Atlanta and other tracks. What logos were on the section you head-butted, ISXLOW? I am really happy it was there for you, that's what it is all about!
Air fence is awesome, as is the RRWAF! Glad you're ok ISXLOW. I'd like to mention that I'd be more prepared to donate to it if we ever got to see it at some of the NC Region events (Nelson and PIRC come to mind, as does the bus-stop at Grattan when running CCW). I don't know how the allocation decisions are made, nor how the risk per corner is determined, and I'm sure it is an issue of limited resources. I'm not being critical. I just want to voice my thoughts. Keep up the good work, Richard
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The best way to get Airfence deployed at a specific track is to organize or support a fundraiser and designate that the money go toward soft barriers at that particular track. A really good example of that happening can be seen at Blackhawk Farms. Fundraisers there have resulted in a lot of soft barrier sections being deployed there. The fundraisers N2 recently did are another good example. [email protected] can answer specific questions regarding fund raisers. Future crashers will thank you!
PIRC was/is next on the list along with more at Summit. It's basically us guessing where it's needed most.
The turn was #5 and it happened so fast I did not even see the asphalt on the other side of the gravel.... Went almost straight into it from my point of view, which scared the crap out of me.
Everywhere you saw haybales would get one type of air fence or another (there is a larger/thicker one for straight on high speed and a smaller one that doesn't lose as much runoff for slower speed or angled impacts areas).
Was glad to see you get up. I was cornerworking on the outside of turn 4 and watched the whole thing. Made quite a THUD when you impacted.
