Quote Originally Posted by stovens View Post
........ I noticed a lot of the shots show salt on the cars. Does the salt blow around(like sand in a sand storm?) Good thing its dry! Rust my plague in life!
The salt retains moisture, part of what helps it compact to such a hard surface. There isn't any apparent salt "dust" in the air (though probably is at a microscopic level), but what gets thrown off the tires sticks to the cars. It's kinda funny, you go to THE grocery store in town and there're little piles of salt deposited in almost every parking space. They had truck loads of case bottled water backed up to their dock............not their first rodeo.


Quote Originally Posted by Ken Thurm View Post
Bob,
Nice pics!!
This is really tragic.
Barry Bryant, 46, from Anderson, CA, lost his life on the long course while traveling over 200 mph.
Ken

Yeah, quite the tragedy. We'd already gone back to the camp site and knew something was bad when the ambulance went screaming by sirens a blaring. It wasn't very long before they went screaming back by, so they made the best effort they could, but he expired on the ride to the hospital. His dad has been doing this for close to 50 years, and they've had that car for a number of years. It had a reputation for being very stable. The word at the track was that somehow a door blew open, pressurized the tail section, blew off the deck lid and the car went airborne. Wadded it up badly. I haven't had the heart to do any more info searching to see if there's more to the story. RIP.