Summit Point DE Fatality

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Originally Posted by ZBB

Thanks... For reference, my question on "southernmost turn" from Google Maps was for Turn 5. Turn 7 was going to be my second guess.

The witness comment at Jalopnik said two things -- that he kept on the power and never turned the wheels. Hard to figure out why he didn't let off or attempt to turn. I still remember my dad going through driving scenarios on how to handle a skid when I was 15 -- and "steer into the skid" was burned into my brain...

He panicked. He didn't know the basics of car control. The track, FWIW, is a shitty place to learn car control--probably worse than the street.

Honestly, if I were motorsport god I wouldn't let anyone on the track until they'd autocrossed for at least a few years. And then I still would make them take a real track driving course, like the Porsche school. If I were an instructor...I would never get into someone's car unless they'd done both of those things.