Hehe!! How true! It IS fun to beat the ***out of a slow car
sometimes... you're going really fast, but because the car is slow,
people think you're more or less milking it...
I remember a Chevy press day at Road America (I worked as an auto racing
reporter for a newspaper in my past jobs). There were ZR-1 Corvettes and
the first year of the LT-1 vettes. There were also Z28s, so there was
plenty of horsepower there.
Well, the Vettes were fun, very nice to drive. But we had a pacecar
driver in front of us (Peter Lockhart, a Canadian Pro) and he would go
at a decent clip in the corners, but back off to about 95mph (!) on the
straights. (and there was no passing, ESPECIALLY of the pace car)
My point is that the most fun I had was beating the pee out of a GTZ
Beretta, a four-cylinder two-door with about 190hp. I had to WORK the
thing to keep up... fun!! :-) I got to really wail on it and not worry
about anyone thinking I was driving like a nut because they were in much
faster cars, which to them, seemed like a more sedate pace.
But back in the Vettes, on the last session around the track, on the
last lap, I was right behind Lockhart... he then decided to pick it up
on the straights. Fun! We cranked it up to about 130 or so on the long
ones... I kept hesitating, then accelerating, etc... because he just
kept going, which is far different than before. Not that I minded! What
was really cool was that I stayed with him in the corners and we left
everyone else (of varied driving experience/talent, with Tommy Kendall,
excluded, but he was too far in the pack) behind! It was good fun... I
think we probably scared our passengers a bit! :-)
--Dave
> >hehe... I bet you're glad they don't have these cars in GPL, huh Remco??
> Hehe, actually....Once I drove that Terra on the Club Circuit of
> Zandvoort. (Is a short version of the one in GPL). It was to get used
> to the track, prior to testing a FF1600. We were not allowed to drive
> at full speed....yeah right, I had to, if I wanted to keep up with the
> rest. Most people were driving sportcars or fast saloons,
> There was one other slow car, a plumbers vance, inclusive ladders. We
> both had a lot of fun trying to outbrake eachother, and trying to keep
> up with the rest. The rest didn't understand us afterwards, that much
> fun at such a slow speed. Hehe, still getting a huge grin when I think
> about that.
> Remco
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Dave Schwabe
The Aussie Toad -- Grand Prix Legends & Brabham site
http://www.racesimcentral.net/~schwabe
