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Originally Posted by zenjim
FYI: I was at the Auto Club Speedway this weekend and the Fast Track Riders Mattias said they will now require safety wiring the oil filter and cap. I guess some tool left oil from turn 1 to 12 a few weeks ago and it took half a day to clean it up. So if you're spending a day with them, better check.
Also funny: Turn 12. They said 80% of the get-offs are at turn 12. I thought that was an exaggeration, but I've never been on that track before. Even though there's a runoff into the hot pit, you can barely see the red and white curbing from all of the rubber in that section. Plenty of reference points!
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Sportbiketracktime just made oil plug wiring mandatory for Advanced and strongly recommended for Inters for the first time this season. In all fairness though 90% of all oil plug and filter failiures were on club racers in the Advanced group (STT's stats not mine), so it's not unexpected.
The worst oil related problem I saw was funnily enough on a M620ie which I think blew every oil seal in the engine simultaneously
, there was smoke and spray everywhere. Fortunately though the lady was way off the race line and 200 yards from pit out, I felt really sorry for her and we couldn't fix it on the spot so no more track. :-[
In other news, several track companies in this neck of the woods are making more and more noise about safety wiring AND full belly pans, I guess business is good enough that they can afford to just cater for the dedicated track rider. One even wants kickstands removed.
I'm not sure it's a good sign or not.
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