[sperry]

Dean, your car now has the "4 wheels off on 12" mod.

..don't worry, I already vacuumed out all the weeds from your fog lights and lower grill.

Here's my version of the story:

I finally got a clear track after being stuck behind some traffic for a few laps, and I was running pretty quickly. It was late in the day, and I was starting to feel a little (over)confident. I got a good run off turn 7 and carried 8-11 flat out, so I was going quite a bit faster than usual down the *extremely* bumpy back straight. I missed my braking point by a split second, coupled w/ my higher speed, I just ran out of room into 12. I got slowed way down before going off, and I went off in a pretty smooth line, so it wasn't all that bad.

There are about a million things I could have done to have made the turn once I realized I was in too deep, but in the heat of the moment, I fell back on the wrong instinct. Since I was essentially trail braking into the corner w/ no hope of making it, I probably could have just gotten on the throttle to turn the car, and lightly drifted around the outside of the corner... however, if I didn't make it then, I'd be off sideways, so I'm glad I just rode it out.

My appologies to Dean... I feel bad I took your car for a little bit of an unauthorized ride. Even though I didn't break anything... I know I could have. I shouldn't have been driving so hard late on day 2... that's when you're concetration wanes... I'm proof. However, there was no damage, just a metric assload bunch of those little burr things piled into the lights/lower grill. I hit the car w/ the shop vac and got 99% of 'em out after I got back...

I've got the off on video. The best part is me realizing there's no way I'm gonna make the corner... "Ehhhhh!" You can be the judge of how bad it was once I get the video off my camera.