It is not actually that bad Imperative. I lost the GT B Ferrari at Surfers in the 6 hour, at night, going through the Dunlop Bridge corner at about 125 130 Miles per hour. I was the first car to arrive after Glen Scott, driving the Matich Traco Olds had dropped a rod out through the sump, laying a large strip of oil from the bridge, right round the corner, right on line. The flag wavers could not see this oil of course, & it was only after a few of us had spun in a big way, & Scotty had stopped down by Lukey they realised there must be a problem, & stuck the oil flag out. If you can catch a loose soon enough you can hit the clutch & simultaneously lock the thing up solid & steer into the slide, extremely rapidly losing speed, holding the car sideways until slow enough to bring it out of it.. Done right you can stay on the black stuff, & drive on having lost a few seconds. If it goes as quickly as they do on oil or a very wet track, all you can do is again lock the thing solid, & get it to pirouette around the front wheels. Done right there is again a fair chance you can get it to stay on the black stuff during all this. It may sound far fetched, but with enough experience you can learn at what stage of losing the thing you should lock it up to avoid spearing off a long way into the scenery. Nothing like a few crashes infront of you to teach you such skills. In this instance I was way past saving the thing in a long slide, so did the pirouette technique. Some bloke in the pits later told me he counted my lights going round 12 times. I can only take his word for it, I wasn't counting. What I was noticing, even in the dark was that although following the curve to some extent the car was getting out towards the outside of the track. Early in the race someone had rolled a Volvo in this corner. In those days when we did not spend the next half hour following some expensive sports car labelled safety car while they moved the wreck, it was still there 5 hours later. In the dark of course I could not see it, so did not know if it was safe for me to run wide where I was. The car was probably down to about 50 MPH by now, & the engine was still running, so I decided the infield was a better place to be. The next time the headlights swept around to the infield I dropped the brakes, hit the throttle & dropped the clutch. The car stopped spinning, & speared off into the infield. My proprioception may not be quite up to the Moss standard, but it was working pretty well that night. I had 2 immediate thoughts. First why didn't I do this pointing down the track in the desired direction of travel. Second, Oh god, there is a drainage ditch in here somewhere. Still I had a result. I had not hit that Volvo, or the drainage ditch. The car was stopped about 50 yards, [yes yards back then], off the track, but I had stalled the engine in my efforts. This was a real problem as just then the LM250, our now leading team car, went flying past backwards, about 30 Ft infront of me at considerable speed, & another car sideways about 20 ft. behind me. I needed to get out of here, but I had only ever started this car in the LeMans race start, & could not find the starter button in the dark. I will explain how I found the starter button in the dark in a further post, if anyone wants to know.