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Originally Posted by rob burgoon
NASA will conduct their investigation, but their statement doesn't give me much confidence in it being public. In the meantime I want to learn as much as I can because it might save a student or myself this weekend.
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I was at the NASA event when this happened. They postponed my race group as the life flight was called in. During a briefing Saturday, they told us that he had an "inadequate" safety harness and was actually found in the passenger seat. Though we were told Sunday that he was responding to treatment (though in critical condition), people at the track with binoculars said that they had not seen a body loaded onto the life flight.
Turn 9 is scary as hell. They say he hit the drainage ditch, which tells us he was going really, really fast. Its one thing to talk about avoiding instinct and trying to correct, but my first time at WSIR through turn 9, all I could think was, "when in doubt, both feet out" ...
His incident really reassured me to stick with factory safety equipment until I can afford doing everything right--professionally.