- 1. Re: Asking for ideas... (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 11:45:04 EDT
- ...in the hope that there are a few out there who are willing to offer a bit of thought to a question that has nothing to do with the big-event SCCA level of autox. This list isn't exclusively for di
- /html/autox/1999-05/msg00313.html (10,706 bytes)
- 2. Re: Asking for ideas... (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 09:43:03 EDT
- << Maybe Ray should lobby for events without timers then everyone could feel good about themselves. >> Good idea. Back in the old days when I drove a rear wheel drive car with gobs of power I always
- /html/autox/1999-05/msg00391.html (8,125 bytes)
- 3. Re: Asking for ideas... (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:05:57 EDT
- << > ...My suggestion has been to let the street tire cars compete in their probably Here we have some agreement. I think that this is a good idea locally. I have often told the street tired competit
- /html/autox/1999-05/msg00392.html (8,963 bytes)
- 4. Re: Asking for ideas... (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:10:19 EDT
- << Just a thought -- pick the best SS driver in your region, let him drive your HS car AND THEN let me know how unfair your HS pax is :-) Kent Rafferty >> That's an excellent thought. In years past I
- /html/autox/1999-05/msg00394.html (7,746 bytes)
- 5. Re: Street Tire Handicap (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:25:10 EDT
- << Those "fancy" autox tires are cheaper than most of the better street tires (in the larger sizes/diameters at least).>> That is probably generally true as long as you are talking about huge tires a
- /html/autox/1999-05/msg00397.html (8,518 bytes)
- 6. Re: Street Tire Handicap (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:29:54 EDT
- << I do agree with the 2-3%. I tried swapping between my R1's and D40M2's last year at Salina. I got within 1-1.5 seconds of the R1's with the D40's on a 35-40 second course. The D40's are/were a goo
- /html/autox/1999-05/msg00399.html (8,637 bytes)
- 7. Re: Street Tire Handicap (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:43:24 EDT
- << What you apparently want is an index that perfectly compensates for car/tire performance differences and guarantees that the "best" driver wins, which is not possible. What if you get what you're
- /html/autox/1999-05/msg00407.html (9,091 bytes)
- 8. Re: Street Tire Handicap (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 02:40:26 EDT
- << I don't understand your dislike for the annual revisions of the PAX index (and every other popular index system). The index is an approximation based on limited data. Every year, there are changes
- /html/autox/1999-05/msg00451.html (9,094 bytes)
- 9. Re: Street Tire Handicap (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 02:47:33 EDT
- << Ray, how are your times? What car do you drive exactly? What region? >> My times are not always that bad. I live in Norfolk Va and run with either SCCA Old Dominion Region [they haven't run much l
- /html/autox/1999-05/msg00452.html (8,388 bytes)
- 10. Re: Street Tire Handicap (a bit long) (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:23:32 EDT
- I thank you for your letter. I'm saving it. This is just the sort of response I was asking for. I know there is a lot of experience and knowledge from across the country that I can study and incorpo
- /html/autox/1999-05/msg00460.html (6,774 bytes)
- 11. Re: Street Tire Handicap (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:39:03 EDT
- << It looks like you feel you are getting the short end of the stick because HStock has been getting so fast lately. >> Gary, I'm saving this letter too. I wasn't looking for agreement just ideas --
- /html/autox/1999-05/msg00461.html (8,448 bytes)
- 12. SP vs. Stock for street tire (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:22:43 EDT
- I forgot to mention that it may be a good idea to split SP and Stock cars into separate street tire classes. Here in Tidewater Va they are lumped together and the guys in SP cars -- some of whom run
- /html/autox/1999-05/msg00468.html (6,951 bytes)
- 13. Re: Spins & Blame (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 09:40:57 EST
- << How many times have you seen a car upside down at an autocross in those 13 years (and roughly how many cars haven't done that)? From what I've been able to gather, thousands of autocross entries h
- /html/autox/1999-04/msg00011.html (8,468 bytes)
- 14. Re: Spins & Blame (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 02:07:25 EST
- << > BTW, in our area there have been quite a few Quite a few would be 3 or 4? What number? Then compare that to odds of this happening in general driving on the streets. >> .........................
- /html/autox/1999-04/msg00080.html (8,872 bytes)
- 15. Re: Spins & Blame (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:50:00 EST
- << I can name more than one situation in which sites were lost because of accidents at Solo II events. Given that we are not being deluged by site owners begging us to help wear out their pavement, i
- /html/autox/1999-04/msg00091.html (7,853 bytes)
- 16. Re: Chevette (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:03:54 EST
- << is nitrous oxide legal in Stock class? ;^) Yes. But not for the car. You inhale a lot of that stuff, don't you, Hawse? <grin> <<<look...the old Racer Man is learning computer geek stuff.
- /html/autox/1999-04/msg00154.html (7,281 bytes)
- 17. Re: NASCAR Fans (was)Possible Nationals Site (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:19:45 EDT
- << SCCA the best racing organization in the world. >> Yeah, we all love what they've done with the Trans Am series.
- /html/autox/1999-04/msg00411.html (6,821 bytes)
- 18. Fwd: Helmet Rot or "What's That Smell" (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 11:51:21 EDT
- --part1_3f958091.24421ef9_boundary Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: RacerRay52@aol.com From: RacerRay52@aol.com Full-name: RacerRay52 Message-ID: <3f958091.24421af6@aol.com> Date: Sun, 11 Ap
- /html/autox/1999-04/msg00623.html (7,410 bytes)
- 19. one of my favorite topics (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:53:43 EDT
- << You'll all, in your infinite wisdom, tell me that for some magic reason tires cannot be regulated. They are too complex for that ... black magic, if you will. >> That is what many teamdotnetters w
- /html/autox/1999-04/msg01111.html (8,771 bytes)
- 20. meditation (score: 1)
- Author: RacerRay52@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:36:45 EDT
- << ...do you really think that BFG would have produced hundreds of thousands of dollars of tires for that event without some "quiet approval" by at least one SCCA official???? I wonder .... John Whit
- /html/autox/1999-04/msg01270.html (8,898 bytes)
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