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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