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Re: best line

To: Larrybsp@aol.com
Subject: Re: best line
From: "Michael R. Clements" <mrc01@flash.net>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 21:06:24 -0700
Hmmmmm. . . perhaps that's because -- all else being equal --
lighter cars are faster, handle better and stop quicker?

Larrybsp@aol.com wrote:
> 
> from:larrybsp@aol.com (Larry Stark)
> 
>             Kit,
>               You may get away with late braking in a feather weight rice
> bucket but if you late brake with a 3350# Corvette going from 110 to
> 125mph at corner entry you'll get just what I said.
> 
> 
>            Larry
> 
> In a message dated 5/4/00 4:45:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> kitwetzler@mindspring.com writes:
> 
> << Subj:     Re: best line
>  Date:  5/4/00 4:45:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time
>  From:  kitwetzler@mindspring.com (Kit Wetzler)
>  To:    Larrybsp@aol.com, jeremybb@leland.Stanford.EDU
>  CC:    ba-autox@autox.team.net
> 
>  > a race track late braking will over heat your brakes, cause you
>  > to over brake for the corner and lose speed, or at worst run off
>  > course. FWIW.
> 
>  I tend to brake much later on the track simply because I have time to
>  react... I always run a race compound brake pad on the track, though.  Never
>  had a problem with brakes going away or overheating, as long as I run race
>  compound pads.
> 
> 
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