It is the cheaptest thing to tune up the driver. After driving 110000mls with
my car I'm quite familiar with it. I just have to concentrate on the things
happening on the track, the car drive it self.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Frye" <henry@henryfrye.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: An E-mail Interview with Henry Frye
> At 08:58 AM 05/06/2005 -0400, N197TR4@cs.com wrote:
> >Interviewer: Henry, what do you attribute to your recent and resounding
> >success on the Vintage Race Tour? Your lap times have made a great leap in
> >being lower.
> >
> >Interviewee:
>
> Two things.
>
> First, motor. Everybody talks about what bits you need to go fast. It took
> a few years to fit them in the budget, but I got 'em. But the motor never
> really pulled. Finally, got the car on a dyno, figured out what was wrong
> in one afternoon, fixed it, and now when I go to the track, I drive. I
> don't troubleshoot the motor, I focus on driving.
>
> Second, seat time. Like most people, I have only a couple opportunities a
> season to run the car. If you go to events that cost big bucks, and you
> only get FIVE SHORT SESSIONS, you are barely learning anything. Actually, I
> don't think you do learn anything. You can barely figure out which way the
> track goes.
>
> So, my advice...
>
> GO TO EVENTS THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY DRIVE THE FLIPPIN' CAR!!!
>
> At the Wild Hare Run last month, Mike Jackson gave us 9 sessions over 3
> days, one of the sessions was a no additional cost one hour enduro, with
> the pursuit race on Friday, a qualifying race on Saturday, and the feature
> race on Sunday. As I said, I totalled up the track time from the results
> sheets and I drove over 280 miles at speed, timed, at VIR. I got my lap
> time down to 2:26, which is very close to what Snook and Jackson did at the
> Gold Cup last year, winning their race. Well, duh, after 80 laps you would
> think ANYBODY would figure out the fast way around the track!
>
> Isn't this the kind of event we want to run a FOT Focus event at?
>
> Is this where I get to thank my sponsors??? ;-)
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