Gator's 818R

[jforand]

Holy Cow!!!

I get that it came on fast, but you could certainly see it coming. I am really surprised they had you on the track for that. Over in the SE all the groups I run with are pretty quick to call it as they don't want corner workers out there with the risk of lightening (many of your stations appeared to be empty). That being said, I did have one outing with NASA at Road Atlanta that got really ridiculous with the rain and visibility. You mentioned you were familiar with RA so picture the bottom of the esses. Massive rain events blowing through making it impossible to see flag stations from time to time, but the real issue is the time lag for the water to make it to the low spots. I was following a corvette and formulating the mental decision to pull off regardless of the session's status. Well, the rain slaked off and the vette kept going.....so I decided to circle one more time. I was very glad to be behind the vette this time through the bottom of the esses the puddle had grown and water came up over the top of his car, quite literally submarining it. I took the opportunity to shoot for the displaced water hole. Needless to say we both came in after that one.