lucky escape

I have been around in a car before and it is very different. I turned my street car around just before the stripe and my time slip shows me going thru the lights at 115 completely backwards. Once the car went backwards I just kept it there and slowed to a stop in the grass instead of trying to bring it back around. My headers were completely packed with grass and dirt. My little brother was riding with me and I just told him to hang on. I credit not flipping the car from my road racing experience. They teach you that if you turn a car sideways it is best to drive into it and not try and recover it because it almost always ends up with rolling the car. It goes against normal thinking to let or drive the car off the track, it needs to be taught as an instinct so you do it without thinking, there's no time to think. Kako I bet if your buddy would have rolled back the throttle and just drove into the grass on the left instead of trying to bring the car back straight he probably would have been fine. But like I said earlier if this is not taught it probably won't happen, it's just not in our nature to drive a car over 100mph into the grass. Glad to hear he was OK and sorry to here about his ride it look like a nice ride.

Chuck