Ok but Frank needed a little love.The last two are from Track photographer Sierra La Vonne Lacey
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Ok but Frank needed a little love.The last two are from Track photographer Sierra La Vonne Lacey
Yup, I posted earlier in the thread that they were his photos.Ok but Frank needed a little love.
back to some fire extinguisher basics.
ABC extinguishers (dry chem) are great for putting out just about any type of fire, however, they are extremely corrosive to just about anything, electrical connections, paint, aluminum..etc etc. When I ran the pit lane fire control for the INDY, PWC, INDY LIGHTS and whatever else ran in St. Pete for 25 years, we only used the ABC extinguishers as backup. (actually, we used a fire truck as backup if it got real bad). For most applications we used a water extinguisher, it works, it's non corrosive, and in the case of batteries, it helps dilutes the chemicals and stop any reactions going on. Even though these are technically electrical fires, they are 12 volt, so treat them like anything else. Also, by adding a product called Cold Fire, you can pretty effectively put out flammable liquids as well. (alcohol fires, not so effective). The beauty of these, is they can be refilled by the user, the earlier ones actually had a valve stem on them, the newer ones, you have to create an adaptor to back fill through the discharge nozzle, not a big deal. You simply, unscrew the cap after discharging it, place 2.5 gallons of water/cold fire mix in it, screw the cap on, then pressurize it until the gauge reads in the green.
Keep at least 2 of these around the shop, and leave the ABC dry chem on the shelf.
Cold Fire | Cold Fire Rapid Cooldown Spray
www.coldfire.biz
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There are several classes in each group. NASA does things very differently than SCCA.Great video! Are all those foreigner cars on the trackwith you in your category, or do you all just qualify together.
Holy smokes60th on the grid and there were cars behind us....my God.
Predictably, much carnage ensued.Holy smokes
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.Sounds like madness
The blue shift light is 7800 rpm. The yellow is 8200 rpm.When I raced motorcycles in CA they’d grid the open superbikes with Ninja 250 production folks sometimes and similar gridding to NASA. The closure speeds could be truly shocking. I was always surprised there wasn’t more carnage.
Man you rev the piss out of that car
It was hard to go back shift points in the 4 instead of 5 digit range for me.The blue shift light is 7800 rpm. The yellow is 8200 rpm.
I used to race a Mazda Rotary so I am used to spinning them up there.
Yes me too...redline on my rotary was 10.2It was hard to go back shift points in the 4 instead of 5 digit range for me.
That Vette is super fast. I think it has a gurney that makes it look steeper than it is.Wow!! Thats a whole lot of angle on the vettes wing!! Great pic.