In a message dated 11/29/01 7:22:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,
dereklola@yahoo.com writes:
> > > A Triumph is one of the very last cars you want
> > > to have to throw sideways to scrub off speed, and
> > > every lap, doing 110 mph into the downhill hairpin,
> > > I had fleeting thoughts of mortality and a passing
> > > wonder at why I was subjecting myself to all of this.
>
> > Oh come on now.... Back In the Day, no one objected
> > to that. Then again, it may be because they didn't
> > have "sissy cars" with power vented disk brakes and
> > sticky tires.
>
>
Nope - the track is narrow, and the morons that designed the suspension saw
fit to run the frame under the rear axle (as did the Austin Healey geniuses,
on all but the last 3000's), so that when the axle bottoms on the frame, it
lifts, and you lose adhesion. Makes for a car that is not NEARLY as
'chuckable' as an MGA, for instance.
Bill
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