Excellent point, David. A pre-drive is always better than having to
change things after the event has started. But, if you can't work in
a pre-drive, you can at least have one or two of the fastest Stock or
Street Prepared cars make the first runs. That way you still can make
your adjustments before you get too deep into things.
My point was geared more toward verifying the 75 mph Neon comment that
appeared early in this thread.
John (Old Fartz & TLS #37) Lieberman
David Hawkins wrote:
>
> >Simple! You ask the drivers of the fastest Stock and
> >Street Prepared cars that have rev limiters at what speed those rev
> >limiters kick in in second gear!!! Then you monitor those cars while
> >they're on course. If a given car's rev limiter kicks in at 63mph in
> >second gear, and that car bumps the rev limiter a couple of times on
> >course without going into third, you know you're within limits.
>
> While I agree that this will tell you what speed you have, I think that
> during the course of the event is the wrong time to find out. If that
> car is running in third for a good amount of time, the course really
> needs to be changed, and if you change it halfway through the event
> it's not very fair to the competitors.
>
> What I've seen done is to have one of the faster cars do a test run
> with a safety steward on board. This gives a second set of eyes
> to watch the speedo on top of hearing the rev limiter. After setting
> up our course this past week, I ran it in my 93 Mr2 Turbo (ASP car
> which I no longer run, and which is putting out about 40HP more than
> when I ran it thanks to boost control...so I guess it's really an EM car :).
> There was one place where I hit 75, we stopped the car and put in
> another gate. That slowed the course by 15mph. With two additional
> gates, we went from a 75-80mph course to one that was just as much
> fun and challenging while not going above 65mph. There's probably
> only one car in my region that could run that course faster than I was
> in the Mr2, and I don't think he was THAT much faster.
>
> David Hawkins
> 93 Mr2 Turbo ASP retired
> 85 Mr2 CSP/ITA
> TLS #15
> Gulf Coast Region Solo II Co-Chairman
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