[Mgs] Saturday projects

[Steve]

You were chasing down some serious muscle on that track...

What have you done to your car to make it handle so well?

Whenever I'm racing on a track like that, I lose all momentum thru the
curves trying to pass people, then I have no HP to pull back up on the
straights.

- Steve

On 7/28/07, Eric Erickson <eric at erickson.on.net> wrote:
> On 28/07/2007, at 10:22 PM, Rick Lindsay wrote:
>
> > Hello Friends,
> >    Its Saturday - at least here in the western
> > hemisphere!  What kinds of car-projects do you have in
> > today's queue?
>
> Hi Rick and all - it is Saturday night here so I am planning for Sunday.
>
> Saturday was "wash the 'B" day - I pull her to bits and investigate
> the suspected burnt valve next week.
>
> Oh yeah, I also watched local car racing and then watched my football
> team thrash their opponents - on TV,  It was a god relaxing Saturday.
>
> Sunday should have seen me compete in our annual 6 hour event at my
> local racetrack (great to thrash the car around for up to 20 laps at
> a time - half an hour of solid workout... an endurance event)... but
> doing it on three and a half cylinders would be no fun at all.  For
> those who haven't seen it - this is an in-car highlights video from
> last year.  Pardon the music but they stripped off my soundtrack and
> I didn't think it was any good deathly silent.  The wacky music there
> now is royalty free :-)  Turn it off if you wish, I won't be offended.
>
> http://one.revver.com/watch/338728
>
> So I will be looking after my team training to run our sector of the
> South Australian leg of the Australian Rally Championship coming up
> in a couple of weeks.  I am the Chief Sector Marshall and it is two
> days of muddy, cold fun with noisy cars tearing up the forest. The
> training involves setting up a mini rally course (in the parklands
> that circle the CBD) and running cars around it at about ten miles
> per hour to make sure all the officials know what they have to do.
> Sector start controls, finish controls, spectator marshals, timing,
> radio communications etc etc.
>
> Then I will come home and watch the V8 Supercars racing in Queensland.
>
> Lots of car stuff - pity there is no F1 this weekend :-)
>
> The weekend is for car stuff, Rick!
>
>
>
>
> Eric
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