I'd be willing to help out at the next PMI round... I did airfence in 02/03 so I even have some experience 8)

My issue with 8 - and maybe it's just b/c I'm an old slow guy and have a funny line between 7 & 8 - is that entering the turn I'm actually headed slightly left and I straighten up/start bending right as I get on the brakes. If I lost the brakes going in - I'd hit the wall hard.

This weekend there was a bump that kept getting me just as I got on the brakes and it would upset the backend - and at that point I was pointing slightly left of the straight. I decided to not push through that turn - remembering Bob's incident, that tire wall looks awful close if something happened prior to turn in. I agree that once tipped in the turn is fine - the work they did to move the wall back is nice.