Jet Crash @ Santapod
 

According to reliable sources, one of the Jet cars crashed at Santapod today.

The driver was taken to hospital and is fine. But it badly burnt the track in places. It is not sure whether Santapod will be on tomorrow for anybody thinking of going....best check beforehand tomorrow morning:)

Thanks for the heads up Julie, saves a long drive to be disappointed. Good to hear that the driiver's ok.

Not another jet crash, hope he is ok, and tomorrow is still on for those peeps attending,

Gary.

My bro has spoke to Santa Pod & they seem to think there MIGHT be racing

a video of the Fire Force 1 yesterday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JljP9FnuCa4

The guy who took that video is Carl360 from here, he was up there yesterday and said that the driver is ok. Wouldn't have wanted to be in there though :(

There was racing today, i could hear the cars all day from my house as i was working on the 740.

yeh we decided to risk it & go & have a look, what a waste of time, staff & organisation was terrible. Told us at the gate we should be able to race, yet when we got the sign-in office all 250 places had been filled ages ago (except for one of there regular drivers who they let sign-in)

Duane, sorry to hear that it was a waste of time :hissyfit:

Ahh thats a pain in the arse, specially when you've travelled a way.

What i do if i get up there later in the day say 11am, i get to the gate and ask them to radio up to the sign on point to check if its allready full.

If they say yes, then i just turn around and go back home.

i'm only in Cov so wasn't that far luckily. We asked at the gate & they said that sign-in had closed for a minute so they could see how it was looking with numbers & it would open again soon, when we got there the office staff told us people had been queing since 6am & they might re-open at 2pm depending how many went home early

Man that guy must have had some serious safety equipment on board. I’m sure he didn’t give a t**s whether the track was open to-day or not, just glad to still be here I guess. :)

what surprised me was that the chute automatically came out while the after burners were still running

i wasn't there myself but they didn't even stop the event after the crash, they sent out the jet quad & Russel Grant in the warm up area while they put out the fire at the finish line

Noticed the chute Ped might be a safety thing associated with the failure and maybe the govs didn't want to panic the spectators hence the continuation of the meeting, maybe? :)

Its not as easy as "the show must go on", in the event of an accident there are procedures they have to follow, one of which is closing the track & making access for any emergency vehicles that may need to get to the scene (even the Fire Force crew weren't allowed onto the strip). If there is any chance the accident could be fatal the event is cancelled so the track & any equipment which may have contributed to the accident is sealed off for the police to investigate.