I CRASHED My Racecar | Road America Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Road America is nothing but bad luck for me. Let's see what happens this year? Unfortunately, another event plague by axle issues and a nasty crash.
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Auto blip is what you needed, no lift shifting got you keeping up now, go rebuild the EG and try again overcome this track Eric, you got this, everyone here is behind you
Wow that auto blip and flat shift features are so dope 🔥🔥
Dude it's so damn good!
Nothing you could have done better man. That was a really blind accident in front of you, nowhere else to go. Glad you are okay! Crashes are never fun. The legacy will continue! 🏁
Thanks man. Yeah, super unlucky situation unfortunately
Eric will come back stronger!
We all hate to see the car being damaged but the main thing you're okay. The comeback is going to be worth it 👌🏾👌🏾
I have been following you for about a year now and I first off want to say your video production and editing are awesome. The way you blend in footage from other drivers, yourself, and the broadcast really makes for a holistic experience when watching on YT.
In the end accidents happen in racing and seeing this one hurt because I love seeing you battle your way back through the pack but, you live to fight another day. They say hind sight is always 20/20 but what you do with that info and how you bounce back is FAR more important. Brush it off, rebuild, and show Road America you cannot be beaten!
Thanks again for brining all of us along for your racing journey.
In 30yrs competing I have learnt 2 things. 1: sometimes there s nothing you can do. Its not a lack of talent/observation/whatever, its pure bad luck. There was no way of seeing what was going on from your position, sometimes shit just happens. 2: Sometimes the gods of racing are worth listening to. The shaft problem, twice, the not getting back out at the end because another car had fallen off, all these things would be telling me to think about iwhether to call it quits for that particular event. And believe me i know, the only 2 big accidents Ive had, when I look back on them, I should have listened to the warning signs 😂 Great video, looking forward to part 2.......oh and that flat shift is really good.
Bro life puts you where you needed to be, the C-clip and all the situation made you crash your car, all happens for a reason! Glad you are good!
We're all captains after the war, but that Corvette's driver lacks of experience and is "easy" to tell because as soon as you spin for whatever is the reason, foot on clutch and brake to avoid going backwards which is extremely dangerous, and what happened if you check the video.
Love your content, can't wait for the next video.
Yeah, i also don't blame him because ending up mid track must have been pretty intense
That Kevlar got saved thank god ❤ for u switching it up for that race tooo
It was a split second decision that went bad! It has happened to the best and will keep happening to everyone on the sport. YES you have demons on RA as I seen on your vids, but you always recover and face it again so do it again! You got this friend, just wish i could be there to give a hand👍🏼 good luck and keep it up
Dang what a bummer. But big props to the Miata for his effort in advising of the hazard. All I could think was all the work you just put in to the front aero for this specific track. Hope it’s repairable.
Wow, that rev match downshift is AMAZING. Congratulations on getting that feature working. I cant wait to watch the comeback. 💪
Yea, not much you could do. The hand wave was taught to me in bmwcca club racing school and has been useful in more than a few situations in champcar/wrl situations for me in both seeing other drivers do it and myself using it to warn others behind me. I have a few friends that race in GLTC with you and they all love it. Keep up the hard work, rebuild it better, and get back to it. You have a quick car and your car control is off the charts good.
Hey Eric I just found your channel love the content. I can’t believe I binged watching some many episodes and didn’t notice your NYC accent. Huge respect from Queens nyc
That's awesome man! Thanks for watching! I'm actually from Queens myself, crazy you noticed lol
I watch all your videos but this one was very exhilarating to me for some reason! So much fun to watch ,but also sad because i knew what was coming..i watched that weekend on the livestream. Excited to see you kill it next season! Also, nothing you couldve done man, i think you did great all things considered
watching that corvette roll backward into traffic bothers me every time i see it. put the brakes on, people!
@@lobuk516 yeah.
was looking for this comment. "when in spin, two feet in."
OMG! You need to make a video on how to setup auto blip and flat shift! Awesome!
props to Emil for the reactive handwave, even if it didn't work out ;_;
it was a tough season, no doubt about it. definitely had some highs and lows. looking forward to seeing you come out strong again next year!
Yeah. Sucks to come out strong and then have this happen. The season wasn't over yet though ;)
Your heel and toe skills are fun to watch. Auto blip will help a lot. My 911 has pdk automatically accomplishes that thankfully. You have terrific skills. Thanks for the video. By the way, I am a past hockey player.
its easy to sit and watch footage, analyze all the tiny details, say i should have seen this or i should have done that. but watching it in normal speed there is nothinng you could have done to mitigate this crash other than position yourself differently, but that would compromize your race and would have needed you to see in to the future to make such a decition. you positioned yourself based on the information you had at that moment. and at that moment that was a safe move and the best thing you could do to gain an advantage in the race. you did what any racer in your position would do.
So sorry to see that, Eric. 😢 You battled hard with the axle issues and looked so good with the shift upgrades!
Nothing you could have done there. I hope you can rebuild it!
That is just so unlucky. Nothing you can see, just a tiny misjudgement by the S2000 led to a chain reaction that no one was really to blame at all. It’s a racing incident. Nothing you could do.
As an aside, love the content, love the channel, great seeing what a fantastic job you do, preparing and driving. Inspirational for a UK DC2 racer
That no-lift/auto blip(match) looks like ya got the set-up pretty nice man. Super crisp.
Eric, there was noting you could have done chap. Just a racing incident and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Look how a little problem caused you a large problem. Real sad and it's not my car but I really feel for you and your car champ. Not at all, car is good man, you will have that fixed in no time at all. Take it easy and stop beating yourself up champ. Take good care and have a wonderful winter. Looking forward to your video! 👍🙏
Damn! Bad luck. There was nothing you could have done. Like you said, you were in the most dangerous group of cars. Hopefully the car can be fixed.
Glad your ok, bad luck and the universe didn’t want to see you and the civic tear it up!!! Damn
The c-clip I use for builds that have the same issue as yours are round, but have squared edges. So instead of round stock, it's either stamped machined. They look like small piston rings. The only issue is they WILL make installation and removal a bit more of a hassle.
Only longer videos besides Jason Camisa and Chris Harris i regularly finding myself watching in their entirety. Great content and format!
Damn dude. Well, for what it’s worth, we all can’t wait to see what you comeback with. Glad everyone made it out safe though for sure.
15:35 those glasses lookin good Eric, btw hope you're doing fine and back on track sooner
Haha thanks man. Heatwave visuals baby 🙌
Ooh man , that sucks it happens so fast ,hope for the best that the sedan still running strong but the other chassis are getting good .wish you the best Eric 💯🤙🤙
Thanks man! Part 2 will be an epic redemption, stay tuned!
love the content!
see you next season!
This is my home track and I grew up driving and walking the whole place. One of the few old school tracks (although the repave helped) still seeing a lot of action, and from a fan perspective you can buy a general admission ticket and walk, bike or cycle (under 250cc) to every corner on the track. They added new spectator sections last year also. I've driven a handful of European and West Coast tracks, along with most in the midwest and RA is still in my top 3. Wish you had better luck here.
Just got done watching the whole vid. That corner leading into Hurry Downs is usually pretty fast and the accidents there normally end up with cars going wide and people needing to hug the inside to avoid cars trying to return to track. That's a pretty uncommon accident there (the way the Vette ended up across the entire corner) and I don't think you should have done anything differently. That said taking a wider entry there does open yourself up to people taking a shallow line behind you and possibly giving you a love tap as you're trying to take a slower entry into the corner. Mid pack is always hard and I generally feel that most of the time there isn't a lot you can do if you get collected due to another incident just because there are usually so many cars around.
That’s really a bummer. That’s racing for you. Sometimes it’s all luck. Glad you and everyone was fine. Hopefully the civic survives.
Civic survives, all is good. Part 2 will be about fixing it!
Unfortunate Broski! Looks like the ITR might be up 🧐 Honestly, you did what you could on that turn with all the information you were processing at that given moment. Cannot be thinking theres a yellow around every corner, truly just an unfortunate series of events that you just got caught in. Even the announcers felt the pain, but like a Phoenix, and the old hot hatch, you'll rise again. Stay on their necks Eric!
The ITR? Never lol! I do have a spare sedan shell, but I think I can fix this car still 😉
That sucks glad you are okay and hope the car is too! That wing on car 630 at the beginning of the video is crazy!
Lol. Yeah that dude built it for endurance racing in champ car. He was new to the series and was blown away someone in a fwd shitbox passed his beloved God's chariot miata lol
heart drop when i saw the notification, time to watch the video...
You got stuck in the wrong place, wrong time. A true racing incident. All Tabb coulda done was hit his Emergency lights or quick triple tap the brakes if distance allows.... either way the position you were in did not give you much controlled run off space the way the incident unraveled. I hope the car is fixable, seen ya repair other stuff and ya just got that daggone blip shift working smooth!
Man the racing Gods weren’t smiling on you that day.
Btw which half shafts do u use ? OEM parts or other brands ?
im glad your okay and i hope you'll be fine to continue racing
Honestly as a nonprofessional i would say that the only thing you could have gone different is that in the second window you had do a sharp left and give up basically on your race and just focus on saving the car so like going into the dirt/grass to avoid the crash
Thanks man! Part 2 will be epic, stay tuned!
I see Eric vid, I click.
My man! Thanks haha
This one was pretty much impossible to avoid unfortunately 🙁. I'm glad I know the rest of the story though 😄. I'm shocked how good the autoblio is.
In the last video I remember you have something on your oil cooler to protect it. Pleeeease, can you tell me what is it 😧 ?
Thanks man! The oil cooler has an Allstars performance radiator honeycomb screen from summitracing.com
you did everything you could. no win situation. happy everybody is ok
Thanks man!
Sorry to see the car damaged. I think the use of ABS might help in similar future situations that arrise like this. I've seen the Bosch units work well on older vehicles. It looked unavoidable overall though, unlucky. Hope you get it all sorted soon.
Abs is definitely on the to do list this off-season. I tried to make it work but having it is way too advantageous, both in performance and safety!
Racing does this to all of us. You couldn't have avoided the crash unless you were sitting at home on the lounge.
It could have been worse. I'm glad you're ok. And the car is repairable. In your position it's inevitable.
Courage pour la suite 🙏🫶
Damn there was nothing you could do about that one :(
That sucks...... one day you'll get that Road America revenge!
Idk man. I may have reached my limit with RA. We'll see next year if I decide to come back haha
one thing is certain...the comeback will be stronger 💪
It always is man!
rad, rad support, hood, bumper....cmon ur racin this thing and should have her up fast. good vid's.
Hey man, don't spoil part 2 hahahaha
Great video editing and coverage, not great weekend 😢
Did Emilie buy you a beer? Because I'm pretty sure you cleared out the 370 that he would've hit, lol.
He always had a coor light banquet ready for me haha!
Things will happen with racing. Glad you're fine and looking forward to your uploads. What speeds were you hitting?
A little over 130 on the straights!
very unfortunate dude, hope you bounce back stronger
Man that crash was a heart breaker. Glad everyone's alright but I had to rewind that part a lot to see what happened there
Yeah, super bummer. I did a breakdown with commentary at the end of the video.
@@EricKutilRacing Yeah I watched that after. It was just so crazy that I had to rewind multiple times as it happened
hyped 100%. keep going
Always!
Really unfortunate crash but glad that it didn't become even more serious. Imagine anyone t boning a Corvette at that speed...
Ive raced this track thousands of times in Iraceing couldn't imagine it in IRL so intimating.
It's a scary track for sure.
It's super easy to hyper analyze from an outside pov on video. But being in the driver seat obviously is a totally different ball game, there was really no time to react given the poor visibility.
I run very short shifters because of an injury and there's almost no difference between your shifting and a DCT. Those were lighting fast.
you should voice over all your in car footage like you did with the last few minutes of the video.
I don’t having racing experience or track for that matter but my thinking is you have to have some amount of trust in the drivers around you otherwise you’ll be so much slower because you won’t go for passes in fear of crashing. Crashing is impossible to avoid no matter what and this couldn’t be avoided
That sucks! When you build another car build a bigger chassis with abs maybe an 8th gen si so your safer in case of an accident
Super bummer. Hope it doesn't take much to get your car back for the next event.
Incredible incredible driving man!
PS: sorry for you bad luck man, I agree you didn't have room to react any differently, please try and keep your chin up man, I hope the damage isn't "to crazy" and hope your alright. Keep us updated bro!
Thanks a lot!
Of course dude! I never give up!
Time to convert the type r to track!!
Haha maybe someday, but not today 😌
Waiting on Part 2!
Damn I was like not again! This is exactly like the other crash! Then I went over to IG and realised haha
It seemed like you were driving smart and holding a bit back- mid pack is a nightmare you could not have done anything to avoid the incident. I´m so sorry for you. Is there a sustainable fix for that axle thing? Fast car and bad quali is never a good combo don´t ask me how I know. Back on the horse- find the mojo and get up in front again.
Man after all the aero work on the front bumper 😬. You'll be back again
37:35 blue s2K caused the mess rear ending the C5 😢
Yup, super dumb mistake. Unfortunately that's racing sometimes, getting caught in others people shit lol
That’s a tough one. Sorry it happened
This is pure racing. Nice car great driver.
Appreciate it man!
When in doubt, flatout😅.
Haha the glory of FWD!
Yeah dont think you could of done anything other then go into the grass & risk the wall. It all happened so fast. I was track side watching & literally happed directly in front of me. Didnt even realize you got cought up in the mess untill i saw limping down the track.
Nothing you could have done different. I have a love hate relationship with Road America too. I'm building a new car right now because of the kink.
That's unfortunate man. The kink is brutal!
That heart breaking to lose the car bud
The thumbnail a little clickbaity, part 2 will be good. Stay tuned!
amazing transmission and car
It’s all good man time to join team ek
Team EK that drives and EG! LOL
I was going to say "what is the corner working doing?" But it happened pretty fast.
What’s the brand of the blip shift/ no lift ?
Unfortunate. Well you can always find the same chassis on facebook for around $500-$1,000. lol. i'm certain this restorable by going to the local junk yard.
I already have a spare chassis ha
You can't catch a break boss
I want to make one of these now
I never really get why there as so many freaking cars on the track at one time.
Nice the sound is fucken good love it.
Seems fixable no ?
thats pack racing for you.
vette didnt hold his brakes. everyone would have had room
Time for a Miata
I do love me a K miata, maybe one day
@ do both shit!
racing incident.
not your fault.
happens to the best of them.
Wrong place at the wrong time 🫤
emilio is a great driver
Get yourself some amsoil cv grease some of the best
I use redline cv2, pretty good stuff too
Bye Felica
Stop overdriving your car
When making moves always have an exit plan especially in multi class racing
Dam.brother sorry aboat the crash but I have 95 eg coap.ex.for sale you never know maybe could work a deal lmk np
I'm okay buddy! This car has been saved 😁
That is just so unlucky. Nothing you can see, just a tiny misjudgement by the S2000 led to a chain reaction that no one was really to blame at all. It’s a racing incident. Nothing you could do.
As an aside, love the content, love the channel, great seeing what a fantastic job you do, preparing and driving. Inspirational for a UK DC2 racer
I really appreciate that brother!