Tire temparature - GPL

Driving the championchip as an privateer this season. Got kicked out of the Ferrari team after a so-so 1966. Nobody wanted me but I had the luck and opputunity to buy me an Eagle (we filthy rich amateurs with filthy rich fathers can do such things). So now I have the pleasure to drive in circles around my country fellowman Jo Bonnier in his Cooper. He has however done something I never have done, take the victory in the Netherlands. I�ve started this season with a 4th at Kyalami, then, as always, disaster in Monaco and we�re now up to Zaandvoort. It�s here my tire-troubles makes me wonder. I�ve found this marvellous, but a little bit twitchy, set up with which I�m certain to take a position in the front row. But... it�s a good setup only when the tire temparatures are up, which means at least two laps. On cold tires it�s a hell to drive and I will be down in the second half of the field before me and the Eagle are ready to race. I�m not a good overtaker so I see three possibilities. 1 Be a good sport and take it as it is and hope for some easy overtaking 2 Change setup for the race and hope for some points 3 Go for the lead and block as much as I can till tire temps let me leave the field (some of the other drivers call this to do a "Schumy", they say it�s named after a german driver to be seen sometimes in the future). This strategy is of course no good if Surtees is somewhere close behind. I think I will not go for the 3rd alternative, the others probably leave me out of the after-race-party. Pietro with the blue helmet

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 22:54:02 +0200, "Per Bostr�m" <[email hidden]> wrote: >I think I will not go for the 3rd alternative, the others probably leave me >out of the after-race-party. Make sure you walk your talk, else the maneuver will be a "DC". ;-) JanL

"Per Bostr�m" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:x9yt5.6065$[email hidden]... > Driving the championchip as an privateer this season. Got kicked out ofthe > Ferrari team after a so-so 1966. Nobody wanted me but I had the luck and > opputunity to buy me an Eagle (we filthy rich amateurs with filthy rich > fathers can do such things). So now I have the pleasure to drive incircles > around my country fellowman Jo Bonnier in his Cooper. > He has however done something I never have done, take the victory in the > Netherlands. > > I�ve started this season with a 4th at Kyalami, then, as always, disasterin > Monaco and we�re now up to Zaandvoort. It�s here my tire-troubles makes me > wonder. > I�ve found this marvellous, but a little bit twitchy, set up with whichI�m > certain to take a position in the front row. But... > it�s a good setup only when the tire temparatures are up, which means at > least two laps. On cold tires it�s a hell to drive and I will be down inthe > second half of the field before me and the Eagle are ready to race. I�mnot

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> a good overtaker so I see three possibilities. > > 1 Be a good sport and take it as it is and hope for some easy overtaking > 2 Change setup for the race and hope for some points > 3 Go for the lead and block as much as I can till tire temps let me leave > the field (some of the other drivers call this to do a "Schumy", they say > it�s named after a german driver to be seen sometimes in the future). This > strategy is of course no good if Surtees is somewhere close behind. > > I think I will not go for the 3rd alternative, the others probably leave

me > out of the after-race-party. > > Pietro with the blue helmet > > There is a difference between blocking and holding a defensive line. Drive defensively all you want, it's ok.