Fun times and not so times at DE

[MikenOH]

My wife and I had the pleasure of doing a 2 day DE at the Mid_Ohio race track in Lexington, OH. The weather was terrible but our '06' was a joy to drive and because of the wet conditions, I gained a healthy respect for the PS2 tires on the car. Despite a lot of water on the track, the car handled like a dream, only getting out of hand when I started to be a bit too aggressive.

We bailed out midway through the second day when the rain was coming down in torrents, but the club decided to hold one last session after lunch during which the runs groups were combined.

I would think the 1 & 2 groups wouldn't have a problem with each other but mixing novices with more aggressive drivers suprised me. One fellow in my group--pic attached-- learned the hard way that despite all the advances in the new cars (997), you can't get around physics when traction is lost. He spun on the backstrech at the kink and did major damage. Hate to see that, but I'm not sure what people expect when there is standing water on the track and it's coming down in buckets.

I posted this on pete's board and asked the question--when does a club make the call that the conditions are too dangerous to allow the event to continue? Or do they leave that to the track managers and individual driver comfort levels?