Kelly told me he is running in 8 weeks @ Beeville!!

 

video of the Hinson crash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtPOI4hkCKA&sns=em

 

damn that was good footage!!!!!

as for tires, this is what art does, quoted straight from them
"at the advice of Hoosier, we are only putting 4 runs over 225 MPH on each set of tires. Expensive yes but you can't put a price on being as safe as possible! After seeing the Corvette flip and the Camaro spin out due to failure of the tires they were running, we will stick to the advice of Hoosier!"

what yall think? too excesive? idk, might be a good idea when going for the record tho! isnt those drag radials a R rated tire?

 

I wouldn't risk the cost of tires over the cost of the car.

 

fixt for you.

 

^^^^^^^^^^argeed^^^^^^^^^^^

 

X3 **** tires **** the car! Someone will lose a Father, Son, Brother, exc....Cant put a price on life because its priceless!

The camaro had 3 runs on theirs! 215,119,205

 

crazy. glad the vette driver was ok. didnt look as bad as the lambo crash

 

Looked worse to me..Lambo was already slowing down when he went end over end..

 

Not sure why drag radials were being used in the first place. If you look at the Texas Mile rulebook it states "No drag radials on vehicles in excess of 190mph". A ZR or better should be the only thing used.

 

Don't the UGR lambo's run Toyo R888s? I know it's not as sticky as a drag radial, but I think it starts to get to a point where high speed stability is more of a concern over traction.

 

Holy **** that's insane. What happened to the Hinson car to kick it sideways?

 

Needs nascar tires

 

something along those lines. Alot of the supra guys use those. Aren't the best down low @ full power but with the ams-1000 should be able to regulate on boost comes on.


239.7 on 20's in insane! I have no doubt they will be back out and ready to go faster!

 

You know what they say, you can't be a real race car driver unless you've crashed your car at 100mph+. Congrats to Hinson on earning that title. That's one expensive certificate though.

 

wild vid of the wreck.

 

yup thats pretty much what we run on the supra

 

Glad I got to see the vid finally we've been talking about it all morning. I live in Huntsville and we'v been wondering what happened all morning. Wicked wreck....geez.

 

Anyone else feel like its kinda f***ed up of that photographer to just stand there and check his photos after the guys crashes like that?

 

She and no. Safety crew and other people are supposed to handle those things directly. Would it be better to run over there and then stand there?

You have been around enough racing sanction bodies to know that bystanders, albeit photographers or not are supposed to stay away.