:bash…and their instructors who take oncoming walls like a champ :drink This ones for you! you know who you are :haha
IF they are
female student drivers I wouldn’t mind. I have never had my ass sucked
:lol Thanks dude!
I’ll post up pictures when I get them and when I can move my neck more than 2 degrees in any direction.
I’m going to go lie on the couch all day with movies and a bottle of hydrocodone. :haha
bottle of Jack works just as good. More fun to drink as well ;D
For those pondering this…Jesse’s student put his car(the students, not Jesse’s) into a leading wall at Pocono. Passenger door first, Jesse sitting shotgun. Little banged up but walking it off like a champ.
Which circuit/turn at Pocono? That sucks man. I hope you pistol whipped him :nod
North Course. Student made a student mistake, cant blame him for that.
I’ve got Jack and my good friend Jameson standing by for this evening if I’m not feeling better by then.
Pics in a few mins, Toms on his way. They’re…crunchy…
Ok here’s the story. Dont let it cause you to rethink becoming a high performance driving instructor until you read all of it…
Before anyone bashes the guy, my student was a great guy. He didnt have any prior experience; this was his first track day with no autox. He also had a LOT of car for a new driver.
He made a basic student mistake which EVERY student is entitled to do while learning. It’s just a shame that it ended with such a rough outcome.
I was riding shotgun obviously as we came off the front straight as the North Course bends into the infield. Driver lost control of the car; a combination of sudden throttle lift, sudden braking, and sudden steering inputs. Like I said, common student mistake, no biggie.
Here’s the bad part: Pocono is a NASCAR track and Pocono North course is a road course that uses one turn and one straight from the NASCAR course and then it dives off into a quick, darty infield.
The North course is on the left. Right by “Gate 3”, we leave the NASCAR banking and dive down into the infield. There is a fence that runs along the NASCAR straight, the END of which points right toward that turn. Turning into the infield is a hairy corner for anyone. Tom and I (driving my car) were taking it at around 110mph or so.
Abrupt inputs pitch the car to the side, I scream “BOTH FEET IN!” but its too late. Tank-slapper, the car pitches to the OTHER side. The car skids sideways punching my passenger door into the END of the fence and small stack of tires. Corner workers said we hit at around 70-75mph. They also said if not for the fence we would’ve rolled…at 70-75mph.
(Car->) || x— (<-Fence)
Car is a total loss, insurance pretty much told the poor guy to go F himself. The door punched in around 6-8 inches but for the kind of impact the car held up extremely well.
I crawled out through the drivers side and was swarmed by 6 EMTs who loaded us up in ambulances and checked us out.
I spent the next hour or so in the ambulance and the following hour doing paperwork for the BMW chapter.
My buddy told me “It’s part of the risk you accept getting in the passenger seat” and he’s completely correct.
I’m ok, just beat up. I was told to expect headache and neck pain and they were right. If it persists for 48 hours without improvement I’m supposed to head for a doctor. Thanks for the concern guys. ;D Tom/DJ and some other guys we went with or met there all called me this morning to check on me.
On a positive note, the car ran great and 1stgen/Tom and I had a good time beating the living daylights out of it.
This is an fun slide through turn 4. DORIFTO! Dunno who’s riding shotty at this point, it might be my student actually.
Same thing, different session, no passenger. We started just showing off for the camera:
You life was in danger and I got no call. 
Jessie is he going to be parting that E46out?
Oh yeah! I have a good excuse for that! My cell phone ended up in the backseat of his car after it smashed off of something and seriously messed up the screen. I usually empty my pockets before I get in anyones car, forgot this time.
LOL Typical Bimmerforums reply. I have no idea.
-Jesse :tong
JC glad ur iight man… too bad about the car but personal safety is more important than any hunk of metal…
I’ll take stab and say you never got my message about nicks door panels = done + ready for install?
Yep, got it.
Glad to see your optimistic about everything, and that you’re ok.
Who knows, one of these days you might be my instructor lol.
Thanks for the faith Cossey! :lol
I’m meeting up with an experienced instructor to talk about what happened and what I could’ve done to prevent it so at least I’ll be a better instructor out of it.
Damn, this is why you call your insurance company and ask if HPDE’s are covered, I called mine, eSurance and asked them if I’d be covered in case of a crash at a driver improvement course in my own personal car that happened to be on a race track, however not timed/competition… the old cunt (we’re talkin 70+) replied, after a long pause ‘I don’t see why not, there’s nothing in your policy stating otherwise’ I asked her to note that on my policy. done and done. :nod
I’ll take it that this is why you didn’t pick up more of my calls asking how to work on my car :rofl
Car’s running, slave install went like butter, I was really nervous…but everything’s straight, and that shit is easy as hell :wtf
Get better Jesse! Enjoy those codones while they last :nod
I was without my phone from 11:30am to maybe 3pm and I’m not yet caught up on calls.
Cool on installs. Lets get the rest of that ish done.
Holy bat shyte man! Good to hear you’re okay, though, sir.
And +1 - Jack is always good at pain relief!