"tromoly" (tromoly)
12/02/2018 at 12:18 • Filed to: Sketchy, Safety, Racing
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"tromoly" (tromoly)
12/02/2018 at 12:18 • Filed to: Sketchy, Safety, Racing | 2
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H/T to Bangshift for the video featuring Brown County Raceway, Indiana, in all its unsafe sketchyness.
Key things to look for in the video: shutdown shorter than the actual racing distance , grass between the lanes, trees lining the track with no guardrails, people not in fire gear responding to a fire, person who doesn’t know how to use a fire extinguisher, vehicle with rollcage that deforms on impact, and several dozens (hundreds?) of people on the scene who don’t need to be there.
Be smart people. Racing is dangerous, do your best to put the odds in your favor.
Tristan
> tromoly
12/02/2018 at 12:38 |
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That can't possibly be a legitimate track, can it?! The lanes are so narrow with no walls!
Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
> tromoly
12/02/2018 at 12:40 |
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“With just a broken leg.”
The people running this track need to be fucking arrested and prosecuted.
DipodomysDeserti
> tromoly
12/02/2018 at 12:47 |
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This is what happens when Billy Bob owns an asphalt company.
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> tromoly
12/02/2018 at 12:56 |
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I have no idea in what universe that could be considered an actual race track. That track is sketchy before you even consider the complete incompetence of the people running it.
As for the cage I’m not surprised a drag racing cage doesn’t hold up well to an impact with a tree. A tree creates a very concentrated impact point that I doubt a drag racing cage would be designed to deal with. Heck, stage rally cages are super beefy compared to other types of cages and they can still fail under the right impacts, and that’s at much lower speeds than you see at the end of a 1/8th mile drag strip. I don’t think that cage would have been an issue at all at a real drag strip.
fintail
> tromoly
12/02/2018 at 12:58 |
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Based on my admittedly limited experience in Indiana, this appears exactly as I would expect.
Urambo Tauro
> Tristan
12/02/2018 at 13:10 |
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Well it sure doesn’t look like a street...
edit: found it! From the video description-
... the SKETCHIEST track we’ve ever filmed at, Brown County Raceway. As if the lanes themselves weren’t already scary enough, they are separated by a grass median AND lined with TONS of trees. Once you get through that mess, you have an insanely short shutdown.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2641453,-86.2425919,423m/data=!3m1!1e3
sony1492
> tromoly
12/02/2018 at 13:11 |
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I imagine most cages would deform if they got t boned by a tree at 60+mph
Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition
> Tristan
12/02/2018 at 14:04 |
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From what I hear it’s not like anyone runs the track, it’s just kind of there. People go there because it’s technically not street racing. It’s been there since the 50's.
citrus
> fintail
12/02/2018 at 14:16 |
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Live in Indiana, not surprised
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Tristan
> Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition
12/02/2018 at 15:25 |
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And thanks to these guys posting a wreck on YouTube, it'll be closed by the end of the week.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> tromoly
12/02/2018 at 19:59 |
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He’d lost by the time he lost it.
Nauraushaun
> tromoly
12/02/2018 at 21:32 |
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I sort of get the coolness of these old school tracks but uhh. That coolness disappears if you actually race on it and actually die. It looks like the grass between the lanes is the actual cause of this crash.
atfsgeoff
> tromoly
12/03/2018 at 01:54 |
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The track is very plainly not set up with safety as a priority. If you still want to race there, do so at your own peril. Still better than racing on public roads.
getFuckedHerb
> Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition
12/03/2018 at 08:44 |
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Looks ‘Maintained’ by my standards . Tower, staging lanes painted, sponsor banners hung, bleachers in usable state despite everyone standing on the starting line . Can’t imagine how that place gets insurance (if it does- it can’t, right?). Scary AF to but I’m sure a rush of “how it used to be” and safer than the streets for joe public who is just trying to get his kids to grandma’s.
thejustache
> tromoly
12/03/2018 at 13:39 |
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I suppose you could say... he had a brown county breakdown?
In all seriousness, glad that guy made it out alive. I spent some time recently exploring my local abandoned drag strip (Glens Falls Dragway, NY - there’s not much left but a long clearing with dirt paths and some fence posts) and this is similar to how it must have looked back in the day. Grass in the middle, trees on the sides, short runoff. Definitely shows how modern safety requirements really do pay off