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It's just that I'm sick of having to spend the entire race just trying
to keep my no-grip heap of steel on the road when there's some good
racing to be done.

Sixties racing should be left to the experts if you ask me.

-- DB --

Hmmmm...  Last time I checked, a BIG part of racing was the effort
required to keep that big no-grip heap-o-steel on the track.  :-)

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Isn't there a button somewhere that will take care of that for me? :)

-- DB --

Thanks a lot Chris, but surely the transition to the Cooper will make me
even slower still than I was in a Lotus. Or is the setup actually *that
good*?

-- DB --

me.

Gee thanx for the compliment from all of us Sixities racers!!!.. ;O)

I thought he was a promising talent until Jacques Villeneuve choopped him in
half at Phoenix in 1994. He was never the same driver since?

Rob

So you are trying to tell me a nimble, responsive, partially computer-
controlled, racing machine with tons of mechanical and aerodynamic grip
is as hard to control as a heap of heavy metal with virtually no grip
and an engine 3 times too big on unforgiving tracks against 20 other
such cars?

I'm sorry, I don't quite follow...

-- DB --

Lotus with default setups = medium fast, fishtails under heavy braking
Cooper with AH setups = steady, comfortable to drive under
acceleration and braking

Now I don't know how fast you are say at the Glen, but a 1:07 with the
Cooper is very possible using AH setups.

"Racing has changed a lot since I started.  The cars are faster and more
streamlined with more powerful engines and better fuel and oil.  Tyres are
wider and the negative lift from aerofoils,. .have put up cornering speeds.
The brakes are better, too, allowing drivers to go deeper at the end of
straights before they have to brake.  Drivers have to concentrate harder and
the driving is a much finer balancing act than it was.  You could be rougher
with the older types of cars and get away with it.  Nowadays the driving has
to be more accurate and precise."
Graham Hill (1975)

Matthew.

Matthew.