Rookie mistake...................VIDEO

[t500hps]

Now Im terrified I could cause this in the future being a rook still in HPDE training. Can I apologize now for all my future goofs?

I don't race in TX but if your group is anything like ours, they will bust your balls un-mercifully...........while doing everything they can to fix everyone's cars!

As shadowbolt states, you're not likely to make a mistake that others haven't already made.

Here's 3 standing starts our group screwed up a couple years ago.....back-to-back-back race weekends!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3KdJWeMT_M

[michaelmosty]

Holy cow, what happened in the first two standing starts? The third one is pretty obvious and I can see how that would warrant being made fun of forever!!

[t500hps]

Holy cow, what happened in the first two standing starts? The third one is pretty obvious and I can see how that would warrant being made fun of forever!!

The first one was multiple groups doing standing starts. I roll up on pole and wait for the group in front of us to go. When a couple drivers screwed up and stepped out of line the flagger didn't realize we were a seperate group and was frantically waving the flag wondering why none of us took off. A faster driver that missed qualifying (starting last) said screw it and took off. The flagger actually came over that night to apologize and we all just laughed thinking the whole thing was funny as crap.

The second is a driver that has since retired.......about 5 year later than he should have. He swore til the end that he saw the flagger move although NONE of the rest of us saw that.

The 3rd was a driver that also runs SCCA. Said he forgot we were doing a standing start.....but admitted he would have blown a rolling start too since he simply wasn't paying attention.


....we still laugh about these!