So my friend John at Berg Racing in webster NY (who did the cage in my car) and another local guy put together an RX-8 to do the Continental Tire Series this year with, competing in ST.
The car made it 7 laps before an unfortunate incident (or series of them) ended their season.
He did such a great job prepping the car. I dont have any before pics, but here are the after pics, on track stills, and video (at least I hope the video link works, I cant acutally see the youtube preview from here as its blocked).
I saw the first hit and was like “those pictures looked like a lot of damage for that hit”, then the second hit happened, and I was like “well now that makes sense”, then saw the third hit and went into “Ok now that’s excessive”
Yep, he was fine. The cockpit stayed very intact. I hear the windshield didnt even get cracked.
EDIT: Its just a lot of time and money down the drain. Im guessing just hauling his big toter home and trailer to Daytona twice (once for an early season practice, and once for the race) cost like $7k in diesel alone.
They planned to compete the full year with just one car and no sort of backup? Not even a backup roller? 10 events, all over the Country, seems like a lot of racing and expenses without a plan B.
Apparently. Im not sure they were going to do EVERY event, but definitely all of the east and central locations. There is only so much time or money to be had. They took their chances only having one car and lost.
Not sure. Hoping there is some decent tv coverage of the incident when it airs sat at 3pm on speed.
Sure they will “save” money, just like you would save money by sitting at home on your hands, but they wont be racing either. This isnt about money really, its about seat time and having some fun / being competitive.
John is heading back down to Seibring, I think this weekend, to begin defending his national title in IMSA Lites. So the racing continues, just not in the RX8
