Ike Anderson's wild Barber crash.

[sdiver68]

thanks all for the emails and well wished here...its hard to respond to them all 1 handed and between pain waves lol so i'm using this as a 1 type place to respond.

speedie - 314 910-3891,

later

oh yeah ike when i was there i heard you came there so i was going to hunt you down but they wouldnt give m a wheelchair!

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Steve, sorry to hear about the crash, being taken out especially sucks. I hope you make a complete recovery despite what they say and hope to see you out there sometime.

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Damn Steve.  I think I saw your crash.  Did you go down in the fast blind right kink at the top of the hill?  Were three bikes involved?  Did you maybe go under me in the first carousell just before it happened?  I had just come out of the pits on cold tires and was riding the high line to stay out of the way.  Three bikes went under me.  At the top of the hill the third bike went under the other two.  There was contact, then all three bikes went straight.  I remember that the guy in the middle somehow got sat up by the contact and rode off the track sitting bolt upright with his hands over his head.
This was an ugly crash.  From my vantage point I saw it coming.  The third guy was diving into a closing door. and I knew what was going to happen the moment he made his decision.  I had my hand up before the bikes even left the track, and the corner workers were literally waving the red flag before all the pieces fell back to earth.  I went back and told my partner Steviebee about it.  He later said that he heard it was the guy on the Raptor who caused the mess.
There are certain places I would never try to pass, and that's one of them.

[Peanut]

Ike,

I have a F4 I'm selling, just in case you need it!  :P  Mixing it up a bit was fun, you passed me back 1 time after I had gone pass & I was thinking, who is this guy?!  :D Good time even if it was brief.

Steve, sorry to hear about your crash.  Normally having Ex & Am in the same group hasn't been a big deal, but with the new track and all, guys were all over the place.  I personally like practicing with the EX's when possible.  Maybe something should have been said at lunchtime about breaking the groups?

Heal quick!

[sdiver68]

hey Chris,

Yes, you just described it to a T...that was me flying and dragging along the ground like a rag doll.

I was closing up on the "slow" guy in that group...going to get him on the brakes into the hairpin since like you said it is a blind area  before there (hillcrest) and most did not have an effective line through there yet.  As soon as  i saw the other guy blazing through I could see it coming also...but it  was too late.

Cary - I'm posting everything here since its hard to type 1 handed.   Call if you want to talk about it :)  

[Chef]

Ike,

I have a F4 I'm selling, just in case you need it!  :P  Mixing it up a bit was fun, you passed me back 1 time after I had gone pass & I was thinking, who is this guy?!  :D Good time even if it was brief.

 

Yeah, All battles are good, I wasnt sure who was who, but i was enjoying it!!! my times were getting better slowly, had gotten into the 39's and trying to make those consistant..... but for me, generally, i'd say it was a fairly safe weekend, of all the blind turns and all the new people to the track, I'll give us all credit for trying to keep it a safe weekend, just a couple of sittuations....

But I do also wanna give a shout out to all of the other minor falls that went on over the weekend, from friday to sunday, there were a bit more people who fell, and I just wanna step out and say that if there were any small or nagging injuries or other big ones we may not have heard about, and or some, like me, who may have damaged a bike beyound ther budget or something, like K3 blew his motor,
...... just a shout out of a well wish... Hurry Back to those.....

Chef

[Chef]

Oh, bout the f4......

I'm thinking...  ;) ... If everyone here who wishes me well......
                           :)

you know, maybe,... could find it in their hearts..
just to maybe... instead of ggoing out and buying a get well card, could, maybe just send.. to me, maye .. lessay... five or ten bucks.....

like a get well Ike fund, i probably wouldnt turn down, like, lessay two dollar fifty  .....

 ;)
think about it, .....

Thanks Peanut, I'll have to see (again) what kinda #'s i can come up with, I just "sweated" to get that one back together...   but i wont put mself through that convo....  maybe i'll be intouch..
forty

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

It's tough when you have that moment where you know exactly what's going to happen, yet you're powerless to change it.  I winced so hard the moment before Steve's crash that my contacts nearly popped out.  I had told Steviebee after Steve's crash that it was the worst thing I'd seen in 15 years of corner working and five years of racing.  Then it seemed like the track was green again in only a few minutes, and I wondered if things could have been as bad as I had thought they were.  I guess things WERE as bad as I thought.  Sorry Steve...
Then the next day I saw Ike's crash, which was a 15 on a scale of 1-10.  Sorry Steve, but the hang time on Ike's crash put it into a class by itself.