I like the F500s though I'm way too big for them and my wife is allergic
to open wheel cars. But there's a huge difference between 1st and 13th. In
a lot of club races the person in first laps all the way up to 4th or 5th
place. To stay in contact with the leaders you have to be on the same
second with them. The F500s run along with the SRs here in the Northwest.
They're typically way down in the order.
If I had my druthers I'd have a formula atlantic, even though it's awfully
spendy.
I sure do like this real-time race timing. Cost me a lot of productive
time today.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Riddle [mailto:dave@microworks.net]
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:05 AM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: SCCA runoffs
Maybe so, but the really amazing stat (and development) is the cars in my
open-wheel class - F500 (http://www.f500.org). In a mixed field of DSR
and
F500 our top five qualifiers would be in grid positions 13, 14, 18, 19 and
20! You can buy a car capable of those type of times for less than
$15,000. Let's see any other Formula Car or Sports Racer come close to
that
type of performance. If SCCA lets us run "real" shocks and add some wings
for downforce we would be running in the bottom half of the Atlantic grid
and in the upper half of the Continentals.
Heck the top car on the F500 grid would be in the 6th spot on the CSR grid
between a Radical and a Ralt RT-5 and is less then 3 seconds back from the
last place Atlantic!
He would also be 10th on the Formula Ford grid and 22nd just in front of
the last place Continental.
Of course if we added "real" shocks and wings the cost would go up
considerably too.
At 11:15 AM 9/18/2003 -0700, Bill Babcock wrote:
>Take a look at the times for the DSR cars compared to everything else.
>These little cars are getting awfully fast for 1000cc Sports Racers.
>Even most of the CSRs are slower. They're seven seconds a lap faster
>than the T1 cars (mostly corvettes). Lots of development going on.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Munson [mailto:fasttrs@mindspring.com]
>Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:41 AM
>To: fot@autox.team.net; '6pack list'
>Subject: SCCA runoffs
>
>
>Amici,
>
>
>
>Check out the live timing feature on the www.scca.org
><http://www.scca.org/> for the runoffs.
>
>Pretty cool because you can watch the times as the drivers hit the
>timer.
>
>Sam Halkias will be qualifying at 3:15 today in his EP TR6.
>
>The last qualifying session is at 5:40 today.
>
>
>
>Mike Munson
>
>Snellville, Ga.
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