Avoidable Contact (2014)
“| 19:05 HOURS REMAINING Raul and I had just swung onto the back straight out of NASCAR 2 when I noticed the wrong kind of motion in the distance. I saw cars entering the Bus Stop chicane, arrowing through the turns instead of swinging side-to-side through them. Going way too fast.
I kept pushing, pressing the Ferrari ahead, but I was ready for cars off-track, debris, or a flag. I wasn’t ready for racecar carnage. For flames.
Over the next minutes and hours, I pieced together what I saw ...from a combination of split-second glances as I passed, and from video replays they showed briefly on SGTV.
My sister car, the number 30 Sandham Swift Corvette with Ian Davenport behind the wheel, had come out of the track’s inner loop onto the banking of NASCAR 1 behind one of the all amateur-driven Benchmark Racing Porsches, the 77. Though the driver of the 77 tried to make his Porsche three lanes wide, he couldn’t keep Ian behind him in the Corvette.MoreLess
I kept pushing, pressing the Ferrari ahead, but I was ready for cars off-track, debris, or a flag. I wasn’t ready for racecar carnage. For flames.
Over the next minutes and hours, I pieced together what I saw ...from a combination of split-second glances as I passed, and from video replays they showed briefly on SGTV.
My sister car, the number 30 Sandham Swift Corvette with Ian Davenport behind the wheel, had come out of the track’s inner loop onto the banking of NASCAR 1 behind one of the all amateur-driven Benchmark Racing Porsches, the 77. Though the driver of the 77 tried to make his Porsche three lanes wide, he couldn’t keep Ian behind him in the Corvette.MoreLess
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