He's running a bunch of negative camber on the front, that's what looks
funny. And the technique is basically drifting style. Lots of throttle and
enough guts to stay on it. I expect it takes a bit of practice (and a big
tire budget).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Daniel Neuman
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 10:41 AM
> To: SPYDER62@aol.com; datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: [fastvair] Japanese Autocross (Gymkhana) (No Corvair)
>
>
> Wow!! I thought the course they run at the All Datsun meet was
> tight... That
> car looked a little strange. The front wheels looked to be set at a crazy
> angle (is it toe-in, toe-out??) with the tops of the wheels way
> inboard and
> the bottoms way outboard. Do they just run slicks in the rear?
> Seems like
> the guy was just punching the throttle and getting the rear end to break
> loose at will? Wouldn't that require giant amounts of power or really
> slippery tires or a really slippery course? They must go thru a set of
> tires a weekend doing that.
> There was a guy doing that with a V-8 Z at the last all datsun meet.
> I think his time was really fast too.
> Daniel Neuman
> Oakland CA
> 69 2000
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