Fitzpatrick Crash

[D_Eclipse9916]

This past weekend I was in a crash that resulted from a mechanical failure. The Rear Trailing Arm Pocket failed during qualifying.

Youtube Video of crash:
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I am "okay". I still have small head aches and today is the first day I don't "feel" the Hans on my shoulders.

The car is totalled beyond repair (like not even close :lol: ). Which really sucks because the hard hit combined with the roll pretty much took out a good chunk of the car's pricey bits. In the trash: 2x Moton 3-way shocks, Harness, Seat, Cage, Hans, seat brackets, vented fenders, Turner rear lower control arms, Custom spherical front control arm, 4x Apex wheels, rear sphericals, Brooks Wing, carbon fiber trunk, front bumper, carbon fiber riser, and I am sure other things I havent even looked at yet. :finger: And not even sure about the Motor/trans/diff as the Motor was still running while in the air and I can smell gear fluid.

Please remember that this is a dangerous sport. I got lucky in many ways:
1. Visor down (I always keep it down but sometimes forget on the warmup or first lap) Glass shards in the face wouldn't have been fun.
2. I was slower into that braking zone than usual. 108 instead of 116mph because of a slowed car in the previous corner.
3. This is one of the slowest braking zones at VIR, one braking zone later I would have been travelling at 140mph

Just a reminder, at many points of the car, the stock unibody completely failed and was only held back by the cage portion. This is not to scare anyone from coming out to the track, but my own personal rule from now on is I will only drive in caged cars at speed. This also reduces my want for a "fast" street car. I think I will be playing around a bit less on the street.