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My friend Dustin posted this on his forum at Mischief.tv, I thought it was just ridiculous and thought I would share. The video is of a safety car pulling out onto the course and ending up being struck by one of the race cars coming around the chicane.

I personally have some thought on who was to blame but for me it seems to rest on both the race driver and the safety car driver. First I blame the Safety Car driver because he jumped right out there onto the track and into the middle when he could have used the side lane to get going. I blame the race driver because well it was a full course caution, the flags were out and he still came through that chicane at a really high speed, high enough for the impact to separate the wheel from the car.

Here is the video:

Here is another video I found which shows more of the race leading up to the crash, you can see as they are coming around all of the corner workers have out the full course yellow flags, announcers are talking about the fact that this will bring out the safety car, so you can also relitively safely assume that the teams had radioed their drivers that the safety car would be coming out. Why would you then be going full out through a chicane?

Anyway here is the second video:

So who would you put to being at fault here?

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Just thought everyone should know, friend and professional race car driver Dean Martin with Ken Wilden and the rest of the Rehagen Racing team won the KONI Challenge Grand Sport race at Leguna Seca this past weekend in the Rehagen Racing #59 car.

From Grand-Am Site: (read full article)

Ken Wilden muscled his way into the lead on the final restart with 16 minutes remaining and held on to pace the final 11 circuits of Saturday’s 79-lap Verizon Festival of Speed, giving the No. 59 Rehagen Racing Ford Mustang GT co-driven by Dean Martin its first Grand-Am KONI Sports Car Challenge Grand Sport victory of the season at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

So I just want to share my way to go and put a Mustang on the top guys, hope to see you at The Glen in June =)

See more about Rehagen Racing and their Skills:

Rehagen Racing Team Site

Grand-Am Team Page

Dean Martin Driver Page

Ken Wilden Driver Page

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These are shots from the first day of racing at New Jersey Motorsport Park’s Thunderbolt Raceway.  Thankfully this day we did not get any of the rain, there were a few small bursts during some of the other races.

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Race was being held at New Jersey Motorsport Park on their Thunderbolt Raceway track. Overall it was a pretty good day, could have done without all the overcast and the occasional rain shower but still had a pretty good time. Track was wet after about half the race and the Viper’s and Corvettes just could not seem to handle that. Overall Andy Pilgrim driving the K-Pax Volvo won the race followed by his teammate in the second K-Pax Volvo and third was taken by the GT500.

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These first ones are from the Grand-Am Rolex Series Bosch Engineering 250 held there. It was great weather fr a race, 90 degrees outside, nice breeze, sunny…overall a good day. Even with the nice weather the race had it’s moments, basically your typical people overreaching or just loosing it while trying to fight it out with another car. No one really lost it on the roller coaster this year which was a surprise though.

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These photos are from the Star Mazda Challenge Series race which was held the same weekend as the Grand-Am race. Again not too much to talk about, one of the drivers went way off track on the final turn on the first lap not sure if he tried to brake late or if the tires were just not holding good due to temp and pressure but for whatever reason it really set him back. There was also an instance where two of them got together by the Oak Tree, was not there to see that one I only got to see the aftermath. Both cars were still drivable but one did need a replacement front nose clip.

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