Bob Woodhouse
Enthusiast
OH MY GOSH I must tell you all thank you from the bottom of my heart. The Viper Nation has been so concerned about the welfare of me and the McCanns after the pounding we all took on the next to last lap of the Speed WC-GT race at Road America. Calls have been coming in all day today. I love you guys, you make something positive out of a sobering event. I haven't had time to post but let me share a few details.offer a few short details.
Damn that hurt, but I am doing great, a few swollen body parts, a broken bone in my wrist, a nice baseball sized bruise at the base of my spine but brand new in a couple days. I can even take a full breath of air.
A huge thank you to all of the Dodge PVO people for making this an extremely safe race car. To the seat people, the cage and engineering, great job, it passed unplanned testing. To the neck brace, HANS, I feel much gratitude, saving me a hospital stay for sure.
The Mo-Tec data acquisition tells some of the story, I stopped in about 5 feet from 77.4 mph. Phil McClure the Corvette driver fared a little worse, he got his bell rung and was flown for a brain scan, the doc that looked him over said he should be fine, well just about, there may be some retraining on how not to trigger a chain reaction that took five cars out. Jim and Mike had some bad car damage, fixable, and they seemed physically healthy after we returned to the pits.
Phil McClure's Corvette re-entered the track crossways between corner 8 and the carousel t-boning Mike McCann, who then promptly got punted again in the same spot from brother Jimmy while I took a nibble off the back of Jimmy's car on my way to punting the Corvette that was moving at ZERO mph at this time. He came into view about 10 feet and a nanosecond before the big thud. SoCal found and posted some Video footage earlier from the window of David Farmer's Corvette. Great job. I have footage also but it is not as clear because all of the action was hidden from view until about 20 feet of impact. You will find the episode on Speed Aug 22 at 10 pm.
So far the attrition rate on the Viper damage has been heavy, 6 Comp Coupes showed, four damaged but we are confident that can be turned around. First major attempt at seeing what the World Challenge series is like, found some surprised, like the tires were acting very strange among a couple of other chassis issues: I did a terrible qualifying job, 18th, we worked up to 8 or 9 at the time of the accident. Good steady car, I think the brakes are one of our strengths, on the last few laps, pre-crash I passed a number of competitors due to their hot brake issues. Bless you all and thank you for your support.
Damn that hurt, but I am doing great, a few swollen body parts, a broken bone in my wrist, a nice baseball sized bruise at the base of my spine but brand new in a couple days. I can even take a full breath of air.
A huge thank you to all of the Dodge PVO people for making this an extremely safe race car. To the seat people, the cage and engineering, great job, it passed unplanned testing. To the neck brace, HANS, I feel much gratitude, saving me a hospital stay for sure.
The Mo-Tec data acquisition tells some of the story, I stopped in about 5 feet from 77.4 mph. Phil McClure the Corvette driver fared a little worse, he got his bell rung and was flown for a brain scan, the doc that looked him over said he should be fine, well just about, there may be some retraining on how not to trigger a chain reaction that took five cars out. Jim and Mike had some bad car damage, fixable, and they seemed physically healthy after we returned to the pits.
Phil McClure's Corvette re-entered the track crossways between corner 8 and the carousel t-boning Mike McCann, who then promptly got punted again in the same spot from brother Jimmy while I took a nibble off the back of Jimmy's car on my way to punting the Corvette that was moving at ZERO mph at this time. He came into view about 10 feet and a nanosecond before the big thud. SoCal found and posted some Video footage earlier from the window of David Farmer's Corvette. Great job. I have footage also but it is not as clear because all of the action was hidden from view until about 20 feet of impact. You will find the episode on Speed Aug 22 at 10 pm.
So far the attrition rate on the Viper damage has been heavy, 6 Comp Coupes showed, four damaged but we are confident that can be turned around. First major attempt at seeing what the World Challenge series is like, found some surprised, like the tires were acting very strange among a couple of other chassis issues: I did a terrible qualifying job, 18th, we worked up to 8 or 9 at the time of the accident. Good steady car, I think the brakes are one of our strengths, on the last few laps, pre-crash I passed a number of competitors due to their hot brake issues. Bless you all and thank you for your support.
