We had a more than seems normal amount of incidents at our race at Mosport
this weekend, also. Seems as though the pendulum is swinging towards a less
cautious attitude again - people aren't racier, they're just getting in over
their heads.
We did have a couple of incidents where some skill or attention to what we
consider entry level driving skills would have prevented some major car
damage. To whit: don't drive into the back of another car whilst proceeding
in a straight line up the back straight (don't try to draft a Formula Ford
when you're driving a 1600cc twincam FB) and when you spin in front of the
pack on the first lap, lock up your brakes and stay off the track. With
your brakes locked you slide in a straight line, and you don't abruptly spin
back onto the track under full power going some weird direction.
Brian
At 02:12 PM 7/6/99 -0400, you wrote:
>To all;
>
>A quick report on the Northwest Historics last weekend at Seattle.
>
snip
>Unfortunately, both the wet conditions and some agressive driving contributed
>to an alarming number of incidents, both single car and car to
>car....including one where Steve Earle's C Jag T-boned Tony Seinigers Testa
>Rosa. Ouch, that was expensive...I wonder who gets to tell Steve he's on the
>trailer for 13 months?? (by all reports, however, it was said that he had no
>where else to go....).
>
>Even Gil Nickel took a trip to the hospital after bending his Lotus 27. Gil
>was in the pits on Sunday wearing a neck brace and claiming he was sore, but
>ready to go out again. I hope we see him in Portland next week.
>
>One of the Can Am McLaren's had a nasty shunt with the front straight wall,
>and numerous other cars also had problems. Our own Smoke & Mirrors Racing's
>Terry Tinney (Jerry's son) took a hit in the side from an agressive Datsun
>510 driver in our race.
>
>We managed to make it through unscathed, and are looking forward to Portland
>next weekend. We hope the sun will stick around for that.
>
>BTW, we tried a set of Kuhmo tires for the first time this weekend and found
>them quite nice, but very different than the BFG T/A R1's we've been used to.
> Found we had to run much higher tire pressures (as per the manufacturers
>recommendations), and they behaved much more like bias plies than radials
>(i.e. lots more understeer). Anyone else out there tried them and have any
>advice? GOing to bump up the pressures some more and see what happens.
>Other than the increased understeer, they feel very predictable.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Myles H. Kitchen
>1965 Lotus Cortina Mk1 #128
>
Brian Evans
Director, Global Sales
UUNET, An MCI WorldCom Company
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