I'm curious about your proposal, Rich. Can you share details? Or did you
already share details when I had my head under a rock?
And, Peter, flattery will get you nowhere. When you look at other evidence
regarding both the del Sol and the Mini, it points strongly to the car and
not to me. I just barely managed to best Alan in my own car at Round 17,
although I got him by a healthy margin in his ailing Civic a few times
after I got race tires. I suspect the final evidence would be Stan's video
of my fastest run which shows me ABSing out of control and way off line in
the GGF gravel. Even I could have done much better.
Frankly, I love competing with Stan no matter what he brings. He tolerates
my swollen head and bad Ali impressions, and Alan verified that Stan was in
the coolest movie ever. Alan, on the other hand, has admitted considering
hitting me on the swollen head with his torque wrench on several
occasions. Dan needs to get race tires.
Finally, I wasn't clear on one thing... The curb weight of Dan's Prelude
is 2600 lbs, which his 105hp just makes FEEL like 3700 lbs.
It's interesting that those specs are so close to what Mini claims for
their car. Why is it so much better? A Mini fanatic coworker made a wild
claim substantiated only by hearsay that their published power specs were
at the wheel. It sure FELT more powerful than my car when I was flailing
through the slalom.
Jake
By the way, did anyone else see that beautiful launch out of Vandenberg
tonight? It sure looked like the interceptor was successful.
http://home.earthlink.net/~kd6nrp/vafbsked.htm
At 12:10 PM 10/14/2002 -0700, Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto} wrote:
> >Anyway, for regional-only folks, basing the classes on nationals is
> >of limited meaning.
>...
>The current system isn't perfect, but at least it tries to base the handicap
>on the car. The very top of each class at most national level events is
>fought for by drivers who can consistently get closer to the potential of
>the car under the rules as they are written than you or I could. ...
>
>Peter
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