I promised to give my impression of the Hoosiers. I love 'em. I actually
took about four seconds of my typical lap time at Pacific Raceway
(formerly known as Seattle International Raceway). Did a whole bunch of
sliding and slithering around, but I got used to it--very controllable. I
found it very fast in tight turns to just let the back end hang out and
keep my foot in it. A little disconcerting on the sweepers at first, but I
finally got the point of drifting all the way through the turn. The end
result was that my car started the weekend off four seconds a lap faster
than second place and by the end of the weekend when I was getting the
most out of the tires it was six seconds faster. It gets kind of lonely
out there, so I slowed down and played with a Porsche-powered Cooper
(Pooper). After pushing him so hard I couldn't see nipping him at the end,
so I backed off and took second. My that sounds smug. Second race I
decided to just go for best times, so I lapped my way up to about fifth
place. Third race there was a young kid just flying in a well-prepped
Sprite, so we swapped the lead back and forth a few times, I made an
impromptu rule that I wouldn't pass in the straights, and we had a ball.
He passed me in the carousel on the last lap, and I couldn't break my
rule, so I took second again.
Peyote is just ripping. I'm going to get the organizers to put me into a
faster class. Kas, you'll be pleased to know that your TR250K was running
in the group I want to move into--Tony Garmey won all three races in it,
beating a bunch of very fast cars, including a blistering-fast 2002 BMW
and a raft of really fast Porsches. I think I might have been able stay in
contact with the lead group--Tony turned a 1:40 something, I turned a 1:42
with no one to race with (I tend to get sloppy when I'm not pushed). The
TR250K looked and sounded great. What a car.
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