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Re: Don't blame the turbo for driver error...
Posted by Andy in PDX (more from Andy in PDX) on Sun, 20 Jan 2002 21:32:09
In Reply to: Re: 99 turbo/handling, mark, Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:42:28
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...The average driver exceeds his own capabilities long before he exceeds the capabilities of his car.
Some years ago I went to the races at Lime Rock and there was a special race in which manufacturers had entered basically showroom stock cars. (I think they were allowed things like better shocks.) The cars were handicapped according to the times that Sam Posey posted in each of them. Cars left the pits according to their handicap time and theoretically all of them would cross the finish line at the same time. There were two SAAB 900's entered, one co-driven by Eric Carlsson and Boston area dealer Gaston Andrey (a former SCCA national champion in a Ferarri). The other car was driven by Don Knowles and someone else whose name escapes me. At one point, the Knowles car came down the main straight with the Aston Martin Vantage, and stuck to it through the hairpin turn. The tail of that SAAB was hung out at more than a 45-degree angle to the line of travel, and it was keeping his foot in the turbo boost that keep him from loosing it.
Like I said, you keep the power on through a turn and keep the wheels pointed where you want to go, and you will go there, without any detours through the weeds. You just have to have the balls to keep the power on instead of hitting the brakes. You do that, and you'll lose it ever time.
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