Potomac PCA at Summit Point 7/14-15 open NOW

[Phokaioglaukos]

No offense taken, Tony! On reflection, I did what I usually do when I see an off ahead--slow and look for the issue. Every time before the car that went off was visible, either off the track or moving across the track in front of me, and I was able to steer around it at reduced speed. This time the fellow must have spun off the track, raising a cloud of dust, and then continued back on to the track. That is a new one for me. I went left mostly because I was fixated on the car in front, I would guess, and I was suprised that the dust was as thick as it was. Never seen brownout like that before, either. Happily I was slow enough when the spinner loomed out of the dust that I could swerve sharply more to the left to avoid him. You really cannot see that in the video as there are no points of reference, but even at that speed I managed a ¼G swerve. Rather a panic move, and I hit the wiper switch while doing it (although I'm telling people from now on that I was trying to clear the windshield of dust).

I posted the video in the hope that we can collectively learn more what to do, and what not to do, bearing in mind that there is still a lot of luck in happy results. I know I was lucky.