OK, so I drove like a total putz (no top ten PAX for me), but the car felt
awesome with brand new V700s on the front. They had only one street
scrub-in before the event.
BTW, lifting of the throttle when you are off line @ GGF in a fast sweeper
is not a good thing. Believe me, I proved this on my last TWO runs! : )
Jesse
----- Original Message -----
From: <Smokerbros@aol.com>
To: <kkelly@spss.com>; <lollipop@ricochet.net>;
<donbarbmckenna@earthlink.net>
Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:06 PM
Subject: GGF & Tires (was: Inner QuandAries)
> In a message dated 8/16/2000 10:24:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> kkelly@spss.com writes:
>
> << when I ran Lucy in the third group, I FELT like I
> was on street tires, and crappy ones at that. This was the first time I
> thought maybe my Miata had too much horsepower. When I drove Peter's car
> (thank you Peter!), this most amazing BMW Z3 Coupe in fun runs that
> afternoon, I felt much more connected to the ground. At this point, I
really
> have no idea why this is, because normally, there is such a gap between
the
> R tires and the street tires >>
>
> I think the GGF lot likes tires with lots of tread and/or soft tires, so
that
> the tread blocks have a better ability to sort of drape themselves over
the
> surface irregularities, and consequently have more contact with the
ground.
> The Boeing lot at Kent was known for favoring full tread Kumhos, and seems
> like a very similar surface to me.
> It would be interesting to know what the top 10 PAX people were on. I can
> speak for #5 (2nd place in DSP in Don Lew's Supra), we were on Kumho
V700s,
> with a lot of tread (not sure exactly how many events on the tires...
Don?)
>
> CHD
>
> CHD
>
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