I wanted to add a few comments to Per's posting that some may find
interesting.
In a message dated 4/25/99 5:53:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
schroede@interaccess.com writes:
> surface: clean, smooth new asphalt, quite grippy
> temperature: mid sixties
> course design, flowing, long, with very few kinks to slow cars down...
Pretty cool course from Jeff Cashmore and Darryl Padberg. Loved the fast
back slalom and the hard offsets and the neat combination of left-right
transitions
> After three runs, I had FTD index in the Celica GT, having about a .6
> second lead over Jeff Cashmore in the Celica ST.
Being that fast it in three runs is very impressive. Quite a lot of fun
racing with the "better talented than-me" drivers like Pat Washburn, Jeff
Cashmore and Per Schroeder.
> However, by the 5th run, Jeff ended up sneaking past me by .05.
> Meanwhile, Jim Harn (one of the whiners :-) also snuck up to within 1
> tenth of my time.
The strangest thing about my last run was how frustrated I was and counting
all the mistakes I made. I came off that run thinking how lousy it was and
thinking that I was slower than the previous run. I thought I had lost about
0.4 to 0.6 seconds easily. I had mistakenly thought I heard a 74.295 come
over the announcement then finding out after coming off course from Jeff that
it was a 73.295. After running a couple of 47.0"s prior to that, it made me
think it was all I could do. Per's morning run at 73.2 got me thinking that
I needed a 72.5 roughly to win based on the RTP index.
Pat Washburn driving Jeff's car was also at 47.0 so I considered that to be
good company. Pat had been having a tough time making adjustment to Jeff's
car after experiencing my car the day before. Pat was impressed with the way
my car drove and remarked at the Neon similarity. He found Jeff's car to be
more unpredictable with the way it was so loose by comparison.
> Again...it's a course dependent issue. The ST is better on courses like
> today's Milwaukee Region event..the GT is better on "YeeeHawwww" courses
> that have tight turns followed by long straights.
>
> Next weekend: Gforces.....
>
> Per
> Opinions expressed do not neccessarily reflect those of the SCAC
>
OK so I'll conceed that in the right hands (not mine) the ST has the ability
to be "competitive" with the GT in ES. With that in mind I can't
wholeheartedly object with conviction the move proposal for the ST to move
to ES. Yes I'll whine and moan and groan all day about it too. I don't like
the idea of my ST going to ES land but for neat courses like we had today and
the competition as it was will still get me to run with the fun Cheese heads.
Mooooo power. See soon the new Pat Washburn bovine express.
Jim
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