tradgedy at san diego ferrari owners meet

[daygoVR6]

last weekend durning the san diego ferrari owners meet up in fontana a porsche carrera GT hit a wall in the infield road course while giving joy rides to those that wanted to see what the new car was all about killing both the driver and passenger....driver Ben Keaton was a big porsche advocate in the industry

http://www.geocities.com/truckracer666/CGTcrash1117777503.jpg

the group was running on the road coarse and not on any part of the oval at the speedway ...apparently what happend is as the driver was going past the pit lanes at the track entrance a car came out on the track the driver jerked the wheel to avoid hitting the ferrari and he lost controll and hit a wall

http://www.geocities.com/truckracer666/FontanaInfield1117778861.jpg

Copied form Pelican's site Quote:

... Ferrari entered the track near the end of the main straight a way (right before the spot where they place the "K" barriers for the chicane) Carrera GT owner Ben Keaton.."twitched" and flipped the car up on the K barrier. From what we gather: The GT owner took a second lap after the parade lap (he wasnt supposed too)

Rumor: there was no pit marshall letting cars out onto the track at the time of the accident.

[PDVR6]

There was a pit marshall/track worker letting cars out from what i gathered. Ferrari owner was sent, hesitated, told to stay and went while his passenger was yelling at him to go.

The entrance and exit are both on/near the straight away. Exit is coming through the turn that leads to the straight away and entrance is part way through.

[daygoVR6]

thats a wild set up for the pits....still terrible that it happened

[Tom (aka Godzilla)]

There's already a thread about this.

http://socaleuro.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6514