[Fot] gearbox legality

[Steve Belfer]

John Hornbostel must be a smooth driver too.  The M. Belfer gearbox has been 
in the car since at least 1989 and is still going strong.  (24 race 
weekends)  hope i didn't jinx it!

~Steve B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <BillDentin at aol.com>
To: <billb at bnj.com>; <henry at henryfrye.com>
Cc: <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] gearbox legality


> In a message dated 09/21/2007 4:42:14 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> billb at bnj.com
> writes:
>
>
>> This is one of those rare occasions when I don't agree with you
>> Henry. No doubt deliberate shifting is the answer to longevity, and
>> no doubt the cost of not shifting deliberately should modify
>> behavior. But it doesn't. There are those folks that can get around a
>> track pulling everything out of a car without grinding a gear. And
>> those that can't. You see it at every level of racing--the people
>> with mysterious mechanical sympathy that never break anything but
>> still stand on podiums, and the mid-pack folks that can break the
>> ears off a brass donkey. It's a talent, it's not a conscious decision.
>>
>>
>
> Mechanics, who also race, tend to have a gentle driving style because they
> know and think about what it takes to rebuild.  Mike Belfer had a smooth 
> gentle
> style and drove that way.  Mike Cataldo, Belfer's racing partner, was the 
> hot
> shoe in their paddock.  He went faster, but then he didn't have to repair 
> the
> race car.
>
> Those of us who don't wrench never really get that.  I've seen several 
> Jack
> Drews in-car video races.  Jack's a front runner and I am always amazed at 
> how
> smooth he drives.  Same thing with John Harkness.
>
> Bill Dentinger
>
>
>
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