the-moss

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yeah you gotta come to a big track next year though..... We may be having our 3rd annual Gingerman snow/rain/shine autocross either late this year or early next.

Honni414

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Alex do you know of any rallycross events? And would you want to get all collin mcrae with me?

Jeff_Jeske

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The price is definately right.......it normally costs three times that to go to a bigger track......and......odds are you'd get less track time.

Anyone interested in a ralliart front LSD transfer case built by TRE? $1000

the-moss

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Oh absolutely... But that's not to say there is very little WOT. Just at bigger tracks there is a lot more.

I used to be able to pretty much top out 3rd on race tires.. Now I'm on street tires up there I'm a little slower than that, but still going quite a way through 3rd.

At gingerman I'm hitting 100-105 on street tires and at Blackhawk I'm coming damn close to the rev limiter in 4th... I'm guessing I'm hitting 115. RA in my car I would guess I would get to 130-135.

For me the thrill of Shawano is how tricky the track is to get right and the chase races.

Gingerman the thrill is in getting turns 4-9 right..

Blackhawk was turns 3-6 and the braking zone into the last turn.

RA - I'm not sure where the thrill would be.. My guess is going through the carousel and hagning on for the kink. RA is a track I really want to run, but am in no hurry to get out there. Just seems so hard on the engine, that you would spend a lot of time under full throttle, full boost, full load at high RPM. I think I would take a trip to Grattan over a trip to RA.

the-moss

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I think there is a rallycross coming up at Lake Geneva raceway... I'm not going to be running it though.. I like my car...

I remember a post not long ago where someone asked if RallyCross was hard on a car..

The perfect response went something like... RallyCross is no harder on a car than driving through a parking lot.. But while running over the concrete parking stops and curbs at 70mph.

laakness

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LOL, I saw that thread

Ink

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Honni you have a PM

fcheng118

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that's funny.

r3z0nate

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Come up to around my cabin, we can do some serious rally pratice

Jeff_Jeske

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Alex did you get a chance to run the race rubber? Did you take a swing at Zoey?

the-moss

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No I didn't throw them on in the end. The track was getting crowded so testing could have been difficult. Also there were a couple of Subaru's that I wanted to go after in the last hour that I hadn't yet.

I think Zoey is faster than me now.. I could keep up (actually catch up) on race tires last year, I don't think that's true anymore. I would still like to have a go!!

the-moss

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Here ya go Honni - http://www.w-a-g.org/events/rallycro...08-06/info.htm

Fireball

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Or the 6th or the 15th of Oct you ***!

Nez136

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Im trying you ***! Money is the issue here...

Fireball

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When I went in August, I hit 128mph going down the backstraight. The Evo slows ways down at higher speeds due to the wonderful square shape of the car.

The thrill at Road America is hitting the apex of a corner just perfectly, being on the power as you just start to enter the corner, and flying into a 90deg corner at 130mph and hoping your brakes still work when you see 5 and 4 pass you and you go to stand on them.

Also, knowing you're running on a track that the big boys run on... (champ cars, lemans, etc)

Having been on Shawano and RA, I'd take RA in a heartbeat. Shawano is an autox track w/ elevation changes. (still better than autox though)