Incident at road Atlanta last weekend

[Suck fumes]

This is what happens when a Porsche breaks on track and doesn't pull off the racing line.

http://youtu.be/ntCrh-DRXsE

This is what could have happened at cresson had the track not been built on flat land.

[blk96gt]

It absolutely baffles me that someone would pull off with a mechanical at the exit of a blind turn. Having said that, I have a hard time judging based on that one view. He did have a car behind him that passed him on the inside, and he had enough room after that pass to get over to the inside, but it's hard to tell what speed he was at after the first car passed him. Either way, if he hit the brakes and intentionally slowed down at that point on the track, it wasn't the best idea. Any other videos of this incident?

[Rob Liebbe]

Somebody still have Marshall's stop at Cresson on video? Similar situation but with better outcome - luckily. Put it up as another example of what can happen.

[marshall_mosty]

I believe it's in the '06 video... It was as far off as I could get, given where the fuel pump died... Still a bad situation that was make "okay" by several fast thinking individuals (namely my brother).

[kbrewmr2]

It was as far off as I could get

this is why I'm relucatant to throw stones at the car that broke... if that's what happened.

As the following driver it's not like he shouldn't have been looking up and through the corner to see the stranded car. View did not seem to be blocked.

[blk96gt]

It's also easy to sit here behind a computer and say why did so and so do X in this situation. I think it's also great to watch incidents like this as it makes you think what you would do in a similar situation. We'd all like to do the right thing, but there are so many other things going on while driving in a race that doing what should be done doesn't always happen.