>It allows you to use an aggressive side-ways style. The fast way around
> is to take advantage of that.
absolutely. i figured this out on my 4th run, which was 1.2 seconds faster
than my fastest official run. :P
i am SO used to dealing with the hills of marbles outside that
corvette-sized path, it paralyzed my right foot :)
REALLY fun site for my car (and great course too), and i will eventually
recover from driving so poorly. the only thing i dont like about it is that
i wanted terribly to go drive on the big track. :\
-james "cant drive on grip" creasy
OSP #74
----- Original Message -----
From: John Kelly <76067.1750@compuserve.com>
To: <lollipop@ricochet.net>; <navidk@home.com>
Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: Today's Laguna event
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>
> Message text written by INTERNET:lollipop@ricochet.net
>
> "Entry was 138.
> --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."
> -------------------- End Original Message --------------------
>
> 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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