The new owner of Bill Goodale's previous AM Tui gave me a shot at driving
it. I had the "go faster through the turns to make it stick" in the back of
my head. When it started to push in a sweeper I fed it a little more fuel,
promptly spinning the car.
I have twice the amount of respect now for AM drivers that I had in the past
(which was considerable)
Paul Zahornasky
NER Solo II Chair
CM is fast enough, thank you.
----- Original Message -----
From: <dg50@daimlerchrysler.com>
To: <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: AM Turnout (was Fine print)
> I think the biggest "problem" with AM isn't so much the cost of the cars,
> but the way the extreme performance levels of the cars tend to magnify
> driver differences.
>
> The limits of the car are SO high, and they move SO fast, and they work so
> completely differently* from other cars, that there's a massively steep
> driver learning curve. Not only do you have to be an Indycar engineer to
> build one, you have to be an Indycar driver to drive one.
>
> I wonder how many people built an AM car, only to find they weren't up to
> the task of driving it?
>
> * I overheard Jim McKamey talking to his codriver at Nationals...I think
it
> was '98. Anyway, the gist of it was that "the reason why you're sliding
all
> over the place in this turn is that you're going to slow - speed up, and
> the downforce will keep the car planted"
>
> Yow! Enter the turn faster and it turns _better_? Is this really Kansas?
>
> DG
>
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