A post kind of like prove it or shut it...

I was in a N4 race the other day. Good clean field. Turned out to be a fun race. My point...it was a fixed set up race. The difference in lap times were kind of strange. Pole and the first few guys were almost two seconds per lap better than the rest of the field. If everyone is using the same set up why does it often happen like this? Guys were talking about how talented some of the guys were. OK..but from pit row they just blow on by. Is it they have better hardware thus making the cars quicker. where is the advantage then if there is any at all? This race turned out to be clean and fun but they are mysterious(fixed set ups) at times. DC

There's no mystery about any of this... speed is not directly related to setup. Speed is related, however, directly related to how well you use your car and the track. People who are talented enough to take the car to edge of the performance envelope for those settings and track conditions (i.e. are able to drive "the footprints") will come out on top, no matter whether everyone's using a great, standard or bad setup. In this respect I'm always reminded of my buddy Alex' words when he was in national Formula Ford: "It's pretty easy to get within a couple of seconds of the top times... getting down to just a couple of 10ths or even surpassing them is the hard part." Jan. =--- "Pay attention when I'm talking to you boy!" -Foghorn Leghorn. "David Ciemny" wrote...

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> I was in a N4 race the other day. Good clean field. Turned out > to be a fun race. > > My point...it was a fixed set up race. The difference in lap > times were kind of strange. Pole and the first few guys were > almost two seconds per lap better than the rest of the field. > If everyone is using the same set up why does it often happen > like this? Guys were talking about how talented some of the > guys were. OK..but from pit row they just blow on by. Is it > they have better hardware thus making the cars quicker. where > is the advantage then if there is any at all? This race turned > out to be clean and fun but they are mysterious(fixed set ups) > at times. > > DC

Well there we go again multiple posts by yours truly (my isp news is messed up). anyhow... I was really referring to N4 and I did not want to start anything because I did not mean cheating. I will follow maddawg and mess with the steering to try to adjust some of those fixed set ups. I just happen to do some thinking out loud to this group (which I enjoy reading and posting to) after a fixed set up race. Appreciate your thoughts :o) Dave Ciemny David Ciemny <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Z7FF7.3639$[email hidden]... > I was in a N4 race the other day. Good clean field. Turned out to be a fun > race. > > My point...it was a fixed set up race. The difference in lap times were > kind of strange. Pole and the first few guys were almost two seconds perlap > better than the rest of the field. If everyone is using the same set upwhy > does it often happen like this? Guys were talking about how talented someof > the guys were. OK..but from pit row they just blow on by. Is it they have > better hardware thus making the cars quicker. where is the advantage thenif > there is any at all? This race turned out to be clean and fun but they are > mysterious(fixed set ups) at times. > > DC > >

David Ciemny <[email hidden]> wrote on 05 Nov 2001: > I was in a N4 race the other day. Good clean field. Turned out to > be a fun race.<snip> Hang on... didn't we have this thread a little bit ago? <cue Twilight Zone/Time Tunnel/whatever music...> -- Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense -- Carl Sagan The GPL Scrapyard returns (slowly): http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com