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Marty - according to the posted results, they have you 3rd behind the Lotus that spun. That seems odd, but then I thought I read somewhere they were setting the results based on the previous lap before the red flag condition. Great job either way.
http://www.mohud-scca.org/Race/2009/...0Races.xls.pdf
http://www.mohud-scca.org/Race/2009/...0Races.xls.pdf
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The opening lap to the video was my first dry lap at LRP since 2006 so I was kinda relearning it as I went. Normally we have a practice day prior to a race but Lime Rock has the practice day on Tuesdays and I just couldnt get up there 5 days out from the race....sooooo I figured id use the first qual to get the track down and the second qual to get a decent qual time. Welll...It ended up raining for both quals! The good news is I was on pole the bad news is I didnt have my turn in or braking points down for a dry track for the first few laps. You also may notice my left leg pumping the brake pedal up several times prior to some of the brake zones-this was caused by a poor job of flushing the brake flluid out of the system and it left some air hidden in the lines. OK so to answer your question, T4 has a nice little negative camber groove really close to the curbing and I lifted on turn in to try to get the car to rotate enough to take advangage of it. My mistake was I didnt get back on the gas soon enough and the car over rotated. Where that turn is tricky is if you get on the gas too much and miss the apex, it will push you off to the left where the track falls away from you. In and awd, when things get squirrely, 90% of the time the correct answer to get you out of it is MORE GAS!
Also, at around the 2:16 mark, I did something Ive never done is a race -I let a car in my own class pass me. The reason for this was, I was too busy fighting off the Lotus while the 350Z was getting away from me. I knew the Lotus could catch the Z and get into a nice battle with him while I chased them. They were on As and I was on Rs (and I getting faster nearly every lap) so I knew id have more at the end of the race. As it turned out, we started hitting the lap traffic which slowed the Lotus enough where he couldnt catch the Z, at that point I was up to speed enough to have a nice battle myself.
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#23
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Yes they did but a few weeks ago they decided that they gave us too much and took the tires away, course they didnt take the restrictor away. I really havent had a chance to retune the suspension since I put the 245s back, I should be able to get the front to bite more and the rear loosened back up. Bryan (JRZ) I will be giving you a call this week!
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dude, that was a very nasty crash....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlHfGGgTVsc
watch with care^^^^the dude is ok now; broke his c2 vertebra(but prayers still go out to his recovery) Edit: that's a very relative ok, I broke my back in a reck about 8 years ago, I wasn't driving but riding shotgun(this is just a daily driving accident) and my back is STill ***t up
wow racing is sooo dangerous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlHfGGgTVsc
watch with care^^^^the dude is ok now; broke his c2 vertebra(but prayers still go out to his recovery) Edit: that's a very relative ok, I broke my back in a reck about 8 years ago, I wasn't driving but riding shotgun(this is just a daily driving accident) and my back is STill ***t up
wow racing is sooo dangerous
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