Topic: Losing a Wheel at Thunderhill
Our Audi 4000 'Ghost' shears a wheel hub clean off at Lemons Thunderhill 2012, 20 minutes before the end of the race. No contact with the 944 'Ladybug' team to our right, just years of abuse and potentially some wheel-to-wheel damage earlier in the weekend compounded by the vibration of flat-spotted tires.
We later found the wheel, complete with brake rotor, brake caliper, and what was left of the wheel hub about 200 yards from where it parted from the car, 100 yards off the racing surface, over an electric fence, face up in a pile of of weeds.
I had been out for maybe 15 minutes before this happened. I guess I'm allowed to say I've 'literally driven the wheels off a car'. If you look closely you can just make out the tire hopping the electric fence in the distant upper right hand corner.
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