Let's Celebrate HyperFest With These Great Summit Point Crash Vids

Jack Baruth
by Jack Baruth

This weekend is HYPERFEST, the all-purpose race/drift/time trial/bikini contest/public vomiting/two-hour wait for parking enjoyed by everyone insane enough to visit Summit Point in the middle of the summer. I didn’t make it out, although my occasional teammate Angelo Dinkov set a lap record two days running in the course of winning the hell out of his races. Chances are you didn’t make it, either. So let’s kick back, relax and watch as “Mr. Shufflef**kitupagus”, above, and a whole (Formula SCCA Regional) grid’s worth of Hyperfest and Summit crashers liven up your Father’s Day!


Ouch! Luckily we were wearing a $4.99 foam collar!

The embedding is disabled, but… let’s put our heads together on this!

Let’s see what the Duke boys have been up to. That’s right! They are racing Miatas!

Over the gravel and INTO THE TREES!

The driver of this Mustang has CONCRETE EVIDENCE of the crash!

I mean yeah, this guy isn’t exactly Senna, what with the “can’t find the gearshift or operate the clutch” bit, but you didn’t have to RAM HIM!

This Miata driver has seen clouds from BOTH SIDES NOW!

Finally, a wreck of a different sort: last years “Daisy Dukes Competition”

That’s all folks! See you out there!

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  • ToolGuy 9 miles a day for 20 years. You didn't drive it, why should I? 😉
  • Brian Uchida Laguna Seca, corkscrew, (drying track off in rental car prior to Superbike test session), at speed - turn 9 big Willow Springs racing a motorcycle,- at greater speed (but riding shotgun) - The Carrousel at Sears Point in a 1981 PA9 Osella 2 litre FIA racer with Eddie Lawson at the wheel! (apologies for not being brief!)
  • Mister It wasn't helped any by the horrible fuel economy for what it was... something like 22mpg city, iirc.
  • Lorenzo I shop for all-season tires that have good wet and dry pavement grip and use them year-round. Nothing works on black ice, and I stopped driving in snow long ago - I'll wait until the streets and highways are plowed, when all-seasons are good enough. After all, I don't live in Canada or deep in the snow zone.
  • FormerFF I’m in Atlanta. The summers go on in April and come off in October. I have a Cayman that stays on summer tires year round and gets driven on winter days when the temperature gets above 45 F and it’s dry, which is usually at least once a week.
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