CFR Sebring event 10/21&22 (E&W)
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we followed him to make sure the car was okay and it seems to be.
there was some damage done underneath as well . i couldn't believe all the cracks that car had on it
unhappy dayhow was day 2?
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I see people out there spending money on the car to improve it … If you spend half that effort just working on your driving skills, making you and the car work together as a team, then you’ll go faster – period. To make the car go a second faster on the track takes a lot more energy and money than making yourself drive it one second faster.
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it went pretty smoothly, 3 run heats, no incidents, and a much earilier finish time although tear down took quite awhile.
There was a very unusual sequence of gates at the end of the course, and being used to driving a miata and not an MR2=wider, it was maybe a little harder to get the car to go inbetween them, that and offset gates normally look like this:
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so alot of fun and the usual sequence of turns, slaloms and such until that point. I think Jesse put an extra second on me in that section alone! (to beat me by a total of 3 on sunday)
definitley embarrasing even tho he is "that good"
There was a very unusual sequence of gates at the end of the course, and being used to driving a miata and not an MR2=wider, it was maybe a little harder to get the car to go inbetween them, that and offset gates normally look like this:
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but these looked like this:
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so alot of fun and the usual sequence of turns, slaloms and such until that point. I think Jesse put an extra second on me in that section alone! (to beat me by a total of 3 on sunday)
definitley embarrasing even tho he is "that good"
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yea we went back out to take pix of the fence area when they were resetting the course and noticed a couple of tight areas but thought they would be opened up the next day
sounds interesting and glad there were no other incidents
sounds interesting and glad there were no other incidents
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I see people out there spending money on the car to improve it … If you spend half that effort just working on your driving skills, making you and the car work together as a team, then you’ll go faster – period. To make the car go a second faster on the track takes a lot more energy and money than making yourself drive it one second faster.
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"And despite some peoples' opinions, he (Art) showed us a new - well actually old - maneuvre, that I personally kind of enjoyed."
Care to further describe the obstacle? So, it was like 3, 2 cone slaloms? Did they have pointers for each set? Sounds kind of neat.
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I think for some reason that was referencing some safety steward duties, not the course design, although I could be mistaken.
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Your car is traveling in the direction of the arrow and you have to go inbetween the "gates"- so in essence you have to swing out to the right, then maneuver to the left to get between the cones, then do that 2 more times. There were 2 cones making up each "gate" (those little vertical lines |=gate ) with a pointer on the first cone of the gate pushing you back right for each gate.
...now that Ive read it, it makes no sense. good luck trying to figure out what in the hell I just said...
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Your car is traveling in the direction of the arrow and you have to go inbetween the "gates"- so in essence you have to swing out to the right, then maneuver to the left to get between the cones, then do that 2 more times. There were 2 cones making up each "gate" (those little vertical lines |=gate ) with a pointer on the first cone of the gate pushing you back right for each gate.
...now that Ive read it, it makes no sense. good luck trying to figure out what in the hell I just said...
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