BHF T5 airfence

[G 97]

Does anyone else think that the airfence in T5 needs to be repositioned more towards riders right or sooner into the turn.  Seems a little more to the left or down the track than should be.  Just asking.

[Super Dave]

I don't really.

If a rider crashes, he will follow a tangent based on the the radius of the circle that he was trying to execute, unless the rider is doing something very, very, very strange...then no amount of anything will protect the rider from himself.

I cannot recall exactly where the air fence is right now (you were there over the weekend), so I cannot give a perfect answer.

The tire wall was closer every year prior to this year and there was no air fence.  Never seemed to be a big place to crash, going in.  Going out, well, there has always been a good deal of room.

Thoughts?

[Jeff]

I agree, as do most.  However, they put it there to catch someone who went STRAIGHT off the corner.  Not the other 99.998% who go off somewhere in the turn...

It's not so annoying at BHF as it is at Gateway.  

I REALLY hope to see some protection in the trajectory path towards the wall this year...

[EM JAY]

  I went down in turn five, luckily I didn't slide/tumble far enough to hit anything...

[pitbtch#1]

Actually we are talking about moving it back more.  The reason is we had to have a guy transported over nesba weekend and he missed it by like 10ft.  His bike ended up on top off the tire wall.  Man was that a pain to get out.(lol)

Heath

[G 97]

Heath, thanks for all of your help over the weekend.  We kept you guys too busy.  I blame Mars.  Yes, that bike was high up and buried in the tires.  The ironic thing is the bike is my buddy's old race bike.   I spent many many weekends with that thing.

I think we had two bikes go down in the T5 area and both missed the air fence and hit the tires just prior.  Which may not mean anything because it depends a lot on other factors etc.  Just curious as to what some of the experts thoughts were.   I'm just glad that our event was in-between the two CCS events and that CCS left them deployed.   We owe them one.

[tzracer]

I believe that the air fence in 5 belongs to Blackhawk, not CCS.

[Super Dave]

I believe that the air fence in 5 belongs to Blackhawk, not CCS.

Yeah, Brian, you're right.  The Irwin's bought it early this year.

[the_weggie_man]

OK, here's the drill on the air fence at Blackhawk.

Blackhawk Farms put the money up front for 5 sections that the racers, crews and spectators ultimately are paying for through the increased gate fee by CCS, Wegman Benefit Fund bought 5 sections and the Roadracing World Action Fund is loaning the track 5 sections.

As for location of the air fence .... it's kind of hard when you are limited in resources to have enough fence to cover all possible impact points.  As Dave said the entire wall in turn 5 was moved back for more run off. It would take another 10-15 sections of fence to cover the entire area. That's another $7 - $10K

The other area that was talked about for air fence was T2 but hopefully the problem there will be removed this fall after the track closes for the year.

[MightyDuc Racing]

We only see air fence at Daytona and that's it down here in Florida.