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Re: marina- first run fastest?

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Subject: Re: marina- first run fastest?
From: Smokerbros@aol.com
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:07:51 EDT
James writes:


> thats right, my first run was the fastest. :P  at first i thought i was my
> old rear tires, but then other people were reporting their cars were getting
> looser every run.  i even tried cooling my tires because i thought they were
> getting too hot!?  this was run group 2.  by loose i mean the rear would
> step much farther out on turn-in, sometimes requiring a dirt-track style of
> driving around the turn and a strange loss of rear traction- especially the
> first big left and the big left that was before the u-turn before the
> finish. car hooked up great on the straight parts.

I was on 1999 vintage Kumhos, and was loose (fun) but  (mostly) controllable 
everywhere.  Last time I was there the car was very pushy.  Oh, wait, that was 
the Honda...  Nevermind!  OTOH, I spun the Honda there last time, my first (I 
think) for that car, and spun the Firebird (that's the "mostly" part...  see 
below) for the first time ever yesterday.

> more pebbles off the line was another speculation.  i tend to turn-in from 
> a
> wider entry than most.

So do I, and it may have been my undoing, though I might have been going into 
the left hand sweeper before the crossover too hot no matter what entry line 
I took!  It was a shock when it came around that fast, though...

Charlie

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