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--Pat Kelly
Navid Kahangi wrote:
>
> We had a great autox day at Laguna Seca today. The weather was perfect
> despite the fact that the weather goddess was not in attendance. I don't
> know the exact count yet, but we had well over 100 entries. Everybody
got 3
> official runs and 3 fun runs. We started a little after 9:30 and ended
by
> 4:15."
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The weather was in the mid-70s with a gentle breeze off Monterey
Bay.
Indeed. The whole thing came off extremely well. We had road racing
motorcycles on the track and mountain bikes racing around in the dirt above
the track. Lots of stuff going on in that county park.
The clean pavement surface reminds me of Oakland way back when
before the current slurry coat was installed. It's got a smooth finish on
it. It allows you to use an aggressive side-ways style. The fast way around
is to take advantage of that. Interewstinly, no rubber "marbles" develop on
the outside of turns.
Went to the AAS event at Mather on Saturday and was once again
reminded why I tell people the course "is only 8 ft. wide" no matter where
the pylons are. The grip at Mather is fantastic, even when the temps are in
the high 90s or low hundreds. Better than Topeka with all its ruts and
yumps. But there is a price to be paid for that grip. It wears off rubber
which collects on the outside of every turn. Go a bit wide and you're in
trouble.
Fortunately at Mather AAS used a four run group system and for the
first two hours we had big fat tire Corvettes taking five runs apiece and
cleaning off the line. When some went a little wide--especially at Station
1 where I was working--they helped out those of us who wanted to use that
slightly wider area in the next group. Love those Corvettes! I still
couldn't catch Chris Kannan's Honda. <G>
Only Brian Hobaugh came across that key apex with the power on in
his BSP Vintage Corvette. That was beautiful to watch.
--John Kelly
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