How is everyone else doing?
Who is shifting once, and who is shifting twice ?
Personally, just like Sears Point, I think they left one of the gears just
one notch off. It hurts coming out of the right hander into the tight left
hander.
Which should tell you I'm shifting once :)
-Larry
: Well, after about 30 minutes of practice, I can run into the 16.7's, but
: more reliably in the 16.8's.
:
: How is everyone else doing?
:
: Who is shifting once, and who is shifting twice ?
:
: Personally, just like Sears Point, I think they left one of the gears just
: one notch off. It hurts coming out of the right hander into the tight
left
: hander.
:
: Which should tell you I'm shifting once :)
:
: -Larry
:
:
I shift back up just getting into 5, the tight left hander, I red line too
soon to ride it and then let the higher gear slow the car into the corner,
downshift and come off the corner in third, back up to fourth coming up to
the first turn. My times are down to 1:18.xx, biggest problem at this point
is every once in a while I come out of 4 (right hander) high/wide and get
squirrely, usually end up bouncing off a wall. I hope I can avoid that in
the race but it means driving conservativly and that means not
competing.......hmm, conservative and finish the race or go for it and wreck
(maybe), hmmmm....................... :-)
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McWhom
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I actually did quite a bit of practice doing just that, and hitting the rev
limiter about 50 feet too soon coming in to the tight left-hander. It was
producing better lap times but I blew up on the front-straight twice during
practice when in the draft.
Just one more notch... :)
-Larry
> : Well, after about 30 minutes of practice, I can run into the 16.7's, but
> : more reliably in the 16.8's.
> :
> : How is everyone else doing?
> :
> : Who is shifting once, and who is shifting twice ?
> :
> : Personally, just like Sears Point, I think they left one of the gears
just
> : one notch off. It hurts coming out of the right hander into the tight
> left
> : hander.
> :
> : Which should tell you I'm shifting once :)
> :
> : -Larry
> :
> :
> I shift back up just getting into 5, the tight left hander, I red line too
> soon to ride it and then let the higher gear slow the car into the corner,
> downshift and come off the corner in third, back up to fourth coming up to
> the first turn. My times are down to 1:18.xx, biggest problem at this
point
> is every once in a while I come out of 4 (right hander) high/wide and get
> squirrely, usually end up bouncing off a wall. I hope I can avoid that in
> the race but it means driving conservativly and that means not
> competing.......hmm, conservative and finish the race or go for it and
wreck
> (maybe), hmmmm....................... :-)
> --
> McWhom
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I think the setup was fine. Just like any other road course, you
gotta learn where and how much abuse to dish out to your car.
-Larry
> I think the setup was fine. Just like any other road course, you
> gotta learn where and how much abuse to dish out to your car.
Hehehe... dish out the required amount of punishment and get some of that
"random" damage for your trouble. <vbg>
Jan.
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