Well Wally, I don't remember seeing any straights longer than about 100'.
Now you guys in the ity bitty cars probably sensed you had a long
straight or 2 on Sunday since you didn't have enough power to be
squirrely in the fast sweepers. Also, the similarities in times between
classes shoots down your theory about this being a horsepower course.
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 06:54:10 -0600 "Wally Strzelec" <Wally@Tamu.edu>
writes:
> IMO, the speed in Meridian was not as much as issue as the long
> straights
> which IMO favored the high horsepower over handling.
>
> -Wally
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Benjamin D Thatcher" <bthatch@juno.com>
> To: <autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: March 05, 2001 12:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Meridian tour speeds
>
>
> > Well, I guess I'm ready to put my opinion out there to be ripped
> apart by
> > the team.net faithful.
> >
> > I saw absolutely nothing wrong with the course or speets at
> Meridian. I
> > ran the first tour there in '99 and this course was much safer
> than that
> > one.
> >
> > Drivers not used to the upper limits of Solo II might have been
> > uncomfortable. However those upper limits were NOT exceded. The
> fastest
> > speed I heard Roger clock on his radar gun was 73 mph for Rich
> Shafer's
> > CP Trans Am featuring a 600 hp motor. No matter how fast everyone
> else
> > "felt" they were going that was about it except for the full race
> cars.
> >
> > Drivers not used to these type courses better plan on doing some
> > traveling out of region or help local course designers to see the
> light
> > about more open courses (assuming the lots can support it).
> >
> > Locally, we will be using more higher speed slaloms and offsets to
> get
> > our competitors used to what they see at national level events.
> I'm sure
> > the fun factor will help us attract even more drivers.
> >
> > Ben Thatcher
> > Apex Benefit Services & Motorsports
> > Stockbridge, GA
> >
> >
>
Ben Thatcher
Apex Benefit Services & Motorsports
Stockbridge, GA
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