Author: "Chuck and Donna #42" <teampointless@britsys.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:07:45 -0500
I agree with Jay. There are rules, we are supposed to abide by the rules, like them or not. Period, end of discussion! Just because I can afford to buy an ex-indy car (read any high powered playtoy)
Author: "Chuck and Donna #42" <teampointless@britsys.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:01:31 -0500
It happens that the driver in question is an evo instructor and one of the best driver's out there. It also happens that his class was in the first run group so he had first hand knowlege of the spee
Author: "Chuck and Donna #42" <teampointless@britsys.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:23:30 -0500
Jay I think you meant to say 246 ft? That's still pretty large, nearly the length of a football field. 400' diameter was the size of the skid pad Mark Donahue used to test cornering capabilities of t
Author: "Chuck and Donna #42" <teampointless@britsys.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:49:31 -0500
If nothing else this protest and the resolution seems to have produced the, I suspect, intended result of forcing the SEB to examine the speed/safety of course design issue as well as the ambiguity o
Author: "Chuck and Donna #42" <teampointless@britsys.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:07:49 -0500
I was always under the impression it worked the other way around: That Nationals were the pinacle and set the model to strive towards. I'd hate to think that Joe Local who may have never been to a na
Author: "Chuck and Donna #42" <teampointless@britsys.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:01:27 -0500
IMHO if the insurance companies are/get too concerned about our events (unlikely if we police ourselves, they are only concerned about claims and payouts, not measuring how fast we are going) they ha
Author: "Chuck and Donna #42" <teampointless@britsys.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:51:53 -0500
Agreed! If it ain't broke don't fix it... If you limit the tires to OEM type, don't allow replacement parts etc, all you do is cut out a whole lot of cars that won't handle worth a toot as they sit o
Author: "Chuck and Donna #42" <teampointless@britsys.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:18:44 -0500
IMHO If the guidelines are followed there will not be a major spread between the fastest and slowest stock classes. It's only when HP can be exercised does the spread expand. A Z06 may be able to acc
Author: "Chuck and Donna #42" <teampointless@britsys.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:21:01 -0500
Jerry, you would have LOVED running at the NASA AX at VIR last weekend! No protests, high speeds and they TOTALED 3 CARS there!!!! How fun an event that must have been!
Author: "Chuck and Donna #42" <teampointless@britsys.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:04:35 -0500
I didn't mean that NASA doesn't run good events, I have run very good events and courses with them in the past. I was not there for this one, I hear there was some less than good weather involved. I
Author: "Chuck and Donna #42" <teampointless@britsys.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:16:52 -0400
We have towed the 12" wheel version of that trailer from Bangor Maine to Key West, From Washington DC to Topeka KS to Oscoda Mich with 2 sets of tires and tools on it at speeds up to... well lets jus
Author: "Chuck and Donna #42" <teampointless@britsys.net>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 08:28:19 -0400
??? I can't read the new fastrack or any of the other 2006 editions, the link seems to be broken. Does it work for anyone else? -- Original Message -- From: "Eric Salem" <ebsalem1@cox.net> To: "'John