re: 14 car pileup on a Nurburgring lapping day

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Do they start those guys at intervals or just let them all out at once?

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Even with intervals you have cars and drivers of extremely different abilities. You literally have pure tourists in a Yaris running along getting passed by track day junkies in fully prepped 911 Cup cars mixed on with the guy that just picked up his 488 and puts on a helmet for the first time.

99.99% of the time people do what they are supposed to do. In this case an antifreeze soaked track ( more slippery than owl shite) and coming down to Hatzenbach which is fairly fast and somewhat blind was simply a recipe for disaster, it was the end of the day (running into the sun) and marshalls there are notorious for disappearing the last 15-20 minutes of a day. Over the years I have done about 100 laps there and there was probably never a lap I didn't nearly poop my pants. It has gotten MUCH worse in the last 10 years because cars are getting faster and "everyone" has 1000 laps on a game console and thinks they know exactly how much speed they can carry through places like the fuchsrohre.