Originally Posted by the youth

whilst on track to day with my m8 andy (northern bloke on pf) as passenger, I came down the craner curves and just as I was about to enter the left handed kink the nearside rear tyre failed, it felt like the wheel was coming of the car at the time, i took the decision to go straight on as I believed had no chance of stopping before the gravel at the old hairpin, I hit the wet grass on the outside of craner(infield side) and the car just seemed to speed up!!! it then went sideways with all 4 wheels locked up the engine then cut out and we skidded across the grass for about 100 metes in near silience before coming to rest on the track again half way between the old hairpin and starkys bridge!! just missing a gravel trap which as we were sideways may have caused us to roll
limped back to the pits to find the tyre had blebbed across 60% of the circumfrence of the tyre, the tyres are michelin slicks but too soft a compound on the back so overheating was the cause I had another slick let go later on but got back to the pits ok, I have some on board footage of the incident from a bullet cam on the door mirror as soon as i get it i will post it up.

apart form that the day was great with just a wheel bearing and brakes needing attention before croft, rob rs2 on here and northern bloke wern't so lucky with both of their cars losing the bottom ends.

steve