Oil Incident in the Esses:  10-6-12

During Saturday morning's Group 3 practice session John Mahall's #228 Lotus Super 7 developed an engine problem...

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Mahall spins on his own oil...
Sideways to the course...
Spins around...
Slides to a stop in a blinding cloud of dust...
Accelerates away...
Dan Payne avoids the oil in his 1963 Corvette Stingray...
Tom Price finds the slippery stuff...
And starts on a ballistic trajectory toward the tire wall...
Scrapes on the gravel...
A moment before impact...
Whumpf!
Price was unhurt.  Not so his beautiful 1600cc. 1965 Alfa Romeo GTA...
With the session red-flagged, the track crew goes to work...
Plenty of oil to clean up...
No problems for the next group...
Formula cars of Racing Group 7 in the esses...
Carl Moore in his March 76B leads Allen Nicholas in his Brabham BT35

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