Or, maybe you start the clocks with your rear wheels and finish with your
fronts. Now, how about that one? Any way, if you're only a tenth or two
behind (the time it takes to drive the length of your wheelbase) you're
"in-the-hunt". Anyone have a better excuse to "loan" Navid?
Don
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>From: "Navid Kahangi" <nkahangi@interwoven.com>
>To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: 8 CONE SLALOM (WAS: THANKS)
>Date: Tue, Jun 27, 2000, 4:08 PM
>
>It's like these stealth front wheels that I have. They don't trigger the
>finish line some time and I end up stopping the clock with my back wheels.
>That's why there is this misconception that I'm SLOW!
>
>--Navid
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
>> [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of James Creasy
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 2:48 PM
>> To: Keith Hearn
>> Cc: Jesse Wills; ba-autox@autox.team.net; Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com;
>> khearn@mail.legato.com
>> Subject: Re: 8 CONE SLALOM (WAS: THANKS)
>>
>>
>> "close to cones"
>>
>> i have this terrible problem that my sidepipes blow down the cones when i
>> drive too close... there is this misconception that i am hitting
>> them! if i
>> was hitting them surely i would hear it.
>>
>> plus i KNOW i can place the car within a few YARDS of my desired line
>> ANYTIME i choose.
>>
>> -james
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Keith Hearn <khearn@legato.com>
>> Subject: Re: 8 CONE SLALOM (WAS: THANKS)
>>
>>
>> >In message <001601bfe07a$200825a0$78cc3ec6@JCRE.MOZART>, "James Creasy"
>> writes:
>> >> i vote for a steady speed and very smooth steering inputs. it
>> has seemed
>> to
>> >> me that upsetting the suspension with throttle/brake/ or lift just
>> reduces
>> >> the transitioning-speed and grip.
>> >
>> >I definitely vote for smooth steering inputs. I just wish I drove like I
>> > vote. Hmmm, Maybe not, since I tend to be a "middle of the road"
>> > voter. I guess I'm just "using all of the track" in the poll booth. :)
>> >
>> >I've read that in some cars you do want to go on and off the throttle in
>> > a slalom (smoothly, of course). For instance, a Miata is more
>> > stable while cornering if you're on the throttle to get weight
>> > shifted back. So one might want to be on the throttle as you make
>> > each turn, and lift as you straighten out in between to bleed off
>> > enough speed so you don't get going too fast.
>> >
>> >In my official runs I hadn't figured out how fast my car could handle
>> > the slalom (it's a continuing problem for me, the car can handle a lot
>> > better than I think it can), so I was lifting way too early. But I did
>> > use this technique and it felt really solid. I just should have been
>> > doing it about 10 or 15 mph faster. :-P
>> >
>> >During fun runs Craig Boyle very generously offered to let me ride with
>> > him (and een waited for a few seconds at the start as I sprinted to
>> > join him). That ride convinced me I wasn't being nearly as aggressive
>> > as the car can handle and my next run I was a full second faster
>> > (despite some sloppiness). That was when I started hitting the rev
>> > limiter in the slalom.
>> >
>> >Thanks again Craig!
>> >
>> >> also, drive VERY close to the cones.
>> >
>> >Yeah, this is essential. And something I really need to work on, and not
>> > just in slaloms.
>> >
>> > Keith Hearn
>> > '99 Miata 10AE "Sexy Sadie" the Sapphire Shark
>> > B-Stock
>> > Milpitas, CA
>> >
>> >
>>
>
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