Yeha Mark Lovell hanging the front off of the car two years ago, not dangerous at all.....
If you watch from 16 mile you'll see how close the guys get to hanging the right wheels off the mountain on every run, thats a 4,000+ foot almost sheer drop off there.
I don't think as a driver you realize how close you come to hanging it off the mountain, certainly not in the area I am talking about.
I've seen multiple year veterans mis take a line a little bit and and almost go off, two years ago a guy lost his brakes coming into a hair pin, actually ended up hanging a wheel off the mountain and almost not making the turn and hitting a wall.
Last year the outside of the road was falling away in one spot from cars running with part of their right tires off of the mountain.
You are right most of the scary drop offs are outside on hair pins, fairly wide hair pins at that, but that doesn't mean in those sections with small turns the top guys aren't almost falling off the mountain in an effort to go faster.
And no matter how good you are or how much experience you have just ask Clint Vasholtz, he might as well have grown up on the road, still managed to roll his car one year, after many years of winning on the hill he did this........
A clean driver has nothign to be affraid of but thats not to say Travis won't be pushing hard enough that he should be a little concerned, especially since its going to have more tarmac this year making car set up even harder..........
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