no kevin, at least in my experience, your corvette is not even as stable as
a crazy cobra car. how you manage to drive that thing with all those
distracting displays and convenience features ill never figure out. :)
-James Creasy
Speed and Spins with Style www.klio.net/cobra
BAPOC www.klio.net/probe
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Stevens <kevin_stevens@hotmail.com>
>Absolutely. My question is, why wasn't I in trouble with my Corvette?
It's
>certainly wider, therefore transitioning further side-to-side; it shouldn't
>really be more stable than the other cars (??), and theoretically I was
>accelerating at least as hard as any AS car. The only thing I can think of
>is that I was carrying significantly less speed through the preceding
turn??
> (Though I can't have been going TOO slow there, I was turning low
39's...)
>
>
>>When I design courses, I usually try to protect the finish lights, by
>>placing a lot
>>of distance from the last element and the timing lights. In your case you
>>didn't have the room to extend the timing lights
>>further down, so to protect the lights more, you would have needed to
>>reduce or remove the final slalom.
>
>And they actually did open the cone spacing up on Sunday morning for just
>that reason.
>
>>Saturdays course had the same problem in the final turn as it took >you
>>right out to the lights.
>
>Saturday wasn't a problem, I spun there just fine, thanks! First run, take
>out the apex cone. Second run, miss the apex cone, almost take out the
>lights, lift to avoid them and spin through the infield. Third run, lift
>before entering ;(.
>
>KeS
>
>>In any event, I completely enjoyed the courses both days :-)
>>---JCG
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Ron Bauer <ronbauer@aa.net>
>>To: Kevin Stevens <kevin_stevens@hotmail.com>; <autox@autox.team.net>;
>><ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 11:29 AM
>>Subject: Re: NorPac Divisional Course question
>>
>>
>> > I wasn't one of the people spinning through the finish, but I did have
>>the
>> > back a little loose.
>> >
>> > Basically, if you took the turn right before the slalom, the slalom was
>> > pretty fast. Add this to the fact that it was only a three cone slalom
>>and
>> > that allowed you to go pretty deep into the last cone. Problem with
>>that
>>is
>> > that if you got too late, there was the potential to do something
>>drastic
>> > (big steering input, complete lift off the throttle) that would cause
>>the
>> > back end to get loose.
>> >
>> > I can't speak for Ken (BTW, it's funny to see the SS spin and take out
>>the
>> > timing lights both days..... ;-) ) but the S2000s are VERY tail happy
>>cars.
>> > Add the above information from the previous paragraph and there is a
big
>> > liklihood it could happen. Annie and I are getting her car set up so
it
>> > isn't so tail happy, hence the reason I was only somewhat sideways (man
>>I
>> > love rear wheel drive) vs. spinning!
>> >
>> > Ron (thanks for a fun weekend) Bauer
>> > Y2K S2K
>> > Team Butt Heat
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Kevin Stevens <kevin_stevens@hotmail.com>
>> > To: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>;
ba-autox@autox.team.net
>> > <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>> > Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 9:53 AM
>> > Subject: NorPac Divisional Course question
>> >
>> >
>> > >Now that everyone has had time to get back to work and delete those
>> > annoying
>> > >voice messages...
>> > >
>> > >I was thinking on the way home about ways I could have improved on
>>Sunday's
>> > >course, and one thing that stuck out was the elan and glee with which
>>vast
>> > >numbers of AS (and other) drivers went spinning through the finish.
>>Since
>> > I
>> > >was just plodding grimly through there, I was curious as to how y'all
>> > >managed to get going fast enough to spin? I don't really need tips on
>>the
>> > >spinning itself, but the going fast part seems to elude me. I
>>*thought*
>>I
>> > >was getting off the turn before the slalom pretty well, but apparently
>>not.
>> > >
>> > >Ken Mitchell, Andy McKee, any of the host of thousands have any input?
>>Not
>> > >you, Arie, breaking bits off the car in order to spin doesn't count...
>> > >
>> > >KeS
>> >
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