Seth Thomas

I posted my last couple of videos up here from my World Challenge Touring Car races. Well as we all know part of racing is taking risks and sometimes things happen faster than we can control. Here is a good video from my Watkins Glen race showing how fast incidents happen and why it is good get all the right safety equipment in the car. Oh and this clip made the Top 5 clips on the Speed Report.

In the video the first bit is from my teammate James Clay's car. The next snippet is from my other teammate Nick Esayian's car and the last little bit is from mine. Enjoy!

BimmerWorld Watkins Glen FunFest

IndyJim

Wow that sucks. I've never been to the Glen but they must not believe in run off room!

Mark Dreyer

Seth,

I just tried to view the video and received a message to the effect that it wasn't available and to check back later.

Edit: must be a problem at my end since IndyJim was able to see it.

jester911

I just watched it as well. Seth what was the cause of the crash? I watched it a couple times and it just looked like the he got wide and caught the tire wall.

TD in DC

Glad nobody was hurt. I still curse when I see the Home Depot sign.

DrJupeman

Yeah, it looks like Clay just screwed up big time!

What I find so confusing is that the second two shots show a car right in front of Clay, but Clay's video doesn't show anyone immediately ahead. Am I seeing things?

Bryan Watts

Yup.

Sean F

yikes

Veloce Raptor

Son of a................

TD in DC

Clay's was the car in front, and when he caught the wall he took out a car that was immediately behind him.

Bryan Watts

Yeah, you're seeing things...I think you are confusing a Mazda for James' car. There is a blue Mazda (Jim Daniels I believe) between James and the other 2 Bimmerworld cars and a blue Mazda in front of James that is in the small pack up ahead with some of the green Tindol Mazdas.

MTosi

Miss the apex by 3 feet and the continue on your normal line and normal pace, more often than not you runout of road on the exit by 3 feet, which doesn't usually hurt that bad except when its the glen and there is a wall right there.

That being said, that realy stinks, you had a good set of finishes leading into that, there was realy no where to go. How bad were the cars damaged?

jester911

Man, that goes to show you when racing is that tight how many can be affected.
Taking out the whole team is a real bummer.

APKhaos

Am I seeing this right? Did Clay's wall tap effectively wipe out the entire Bimmerworld team in one swipe, with no other cars involved??

Seth Thomas

The second two shots are not of Clay's car. One is Nick Esayian's #34 car and the other is of my #38 car.