there is a reason why...
at the BMW autox thing i went to last year two of us were within .25 seconds
of the instructors (who drove with the traction control off). im pretty
sure we would have beaten them if we hadnt been handicapped by that darn TC.
-james
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Merritt <cmerritt@ati.com>
>I would like to point out for the record that at the BMW event I went to at
>the stick a week or two ago, we flogged those X5 SUVs pretty darn good and
>just had our instructors urging us on faster =). The only irritating part
>was they wouldn't let me turn off the dynamic traction control system.
>Humph.
>
>-Carl
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Enno Wein [mailto:enno@lsil.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 5:23 PM
>> To: Steven J. Sherwood
>> Cc: Jeremy Bergsman; ba-autox@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: AutoShow in Motion.
>>
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>>
>> > I got in trouble at the AutoShow in Motion at
>> > Great America...when I was in the Suburban...they
>> > said I made the tires squeal too much...and they
>> > punched my name tag with one demerit.
>>
>> How can an SUV be driven without squealing tires?
>> I always thought they were like rental cars
>> - those squeal from the sideward force generated by adjusting
>> the powermirrors ;-)
>>
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