Jason Posted May 9, 2003 Report Share Posted May 9, 2003 I am hearing Greg Davidson was the first car out today at TMS and blew a RF and hit the wall hard. His car started on fire. Not totally destroyed but will need a new clip. Anyone have some more info? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10Car Posted May 9, 2003 Report Share Posted May 9, 2003 Ouch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar2248 Posted May 9, 2003 Report Share Posted May 9, 2003 This is true, the # 96 car right befor the middle of turns 3 and 4blew a rf tire, and hit the wall. His fuel pump was kncked off and the car caught fire. He drove it down in to the pits and his cew put the fire out. Greg seamed to be ok, was a little conjested b/c of the smoke. The car needs anew frnt clip from what i saw, and a bunch of electrical, lines, frot suspension, etc... GLAD GREG WAS OK, very hard hit. PRactice was then cancelled and no other cars were allowed on the track, thetire was sent off for inspection to examine if it was cut by trash or etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SASPEEDRACER24 Posted May 9, 2003 Report Share Posted May 9, 2003 Do you know how many laps he had on the tires Bradley? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin35251 Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 Thsi is bradley, on kevins screen name. Computer is screwing up, he had made about 5 laps on his old tires, cam ein put new tires on, and was on his second lap!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisFrost Posted May 12, 2003 Report Share Posted May 12, 2003 How many laps did everybody make before canceling test? What were the lap times? Any ideas about what is going to happen with the tires for the race? (Hoosier, American Racer)? I have some photos from Jim Vasaldua of the test at TMS that I will be posting soon on the ROMCO racing web site. There were a few cars shown on the track, but not greg's trouble. Kris Frost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Posted May 12, 2003 Report Share Posted May 12, 2003 Terry says that he thinks the tire was loosing air the lap before. This was based off of the lap times. His info. was from Greg D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8racefan Posted May 12, 2003 Report Share Posted May 12, 2003 If he just put tires on and he was on second lap, how do we know if it was going down by the lap time beings it was only on the second lap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfrebel Posted May 12, 2003 Report Share Posted May 12, 2003 if a tire fails on the second lap of a run sounds to me like a major major tire issue or he ran over something a little off topic, but what speeds are the ROMCO guys running at TMS with the restrictor plates and what would they run without the plates approximately ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacecar Posted May 13, 2003 Report Share Posted May 13, 2003 The only logical and defendable decision that can be made about the TMS tire is that they should run the race-proven Hoosier Speedway tire (same as last year). The practice on May 8th was advertised as a tire test, and the American Racer tire has yet to pass the test. Imagine the liability faced by Romco if they still decide to go with the unproven American Racer tire, and subsequently there are more failures and someone gets hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SASPEEDRACER24 Posted May 13, 2003 Report Share Posted May 13, 2003 Have they got any results on where the tire busted at meaning if it was failure of some sort or a cut...ect... inquiring minds would like to know. Marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar2248 Posted May 14, 2003 Report Share Posted May 14, 2003 I never got to go on the track, because of the wreck. Along with the 34 car, the 9 car made his 3 slow laps and was comming in to check to make sure he was not dragging anything, along with the 19 car. other than that i think greg chris and t wade were the only cars that got out there up to speed. fastest i heard they went was a 37.6 but not for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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