ACS Double Rational

BLinn":309s00cn said:
It always amazes me that those V8's can't pull enough of a gap on the banking to not be a problem in the twisty stuff. The life of a front-running, small-bore prod racer.

results: http://www.mylaps.com/results/showevent.jsp?id=792370


Thanks for sharing and changing the camera position!
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It was a surprise to me... I thought wow this will be great running with GT, by the time we get to the infield all of the fast cars will be long gone. But no, they are all still braking 88-o I guess it takes a while to scrub off that extra 50mph. :lol:

I like the new camera view, but not all the wind noise.
 
I think the Camaro guy had the wrong gear (somewhere). On lap 3 it looked like you were pulling up on him through 1-2.

Probably should be an "Australian pursuit" type of rule that if you are in a GT1 car and an HP car passes you, "you're done". Nothing against HP.

I think that I like the camera in the car better than mouned on the roof. I know that is the current trend in all of the TV stuff and that the GoPro guys like it up there but I like to see the driver's hands on the wheel and the shifts, etc.
Sometimes if it's positioned right you can even get glimpses of the rear view mirror to see when a car is coming up on the car that you're "riding in".
 
Rob, it had nothing to do with what gear that Camaro was in. He was afraid of corners. When we got out on the nearly straight part of the oval, he would pull way ahead. As soon as we got into 1-2, I would start gaining on him and by the time we got to turn three I had to do my best to avoiding hitting him. The fuel he was dumping made it worse because traction on fuel is not very good.

Jason was lucky enough to get far enough ahead of him to keep the Camaro from passing under power. My battle, passing back and forth, with the Camaro aided Jason's escape. I had no one to help me and just had to wait for an extremely stupid mistake by the Camaro to get away from him. He made continual mistakes but I needed a big one. That did happen but it took too long.

My only chance of keeping up with Jason was to be able to draft on the oval. Once he got away, I had no chance of catching up without a big mistake on his part. Jason's mistakes don't come very often.
 
Gary Wittman":2qixcb0h said:
Rob, it had nothing to do with what gear that Camaro was in. He was afraid of corners. When we got out on the nearly straight part of the oval, he would pull way ahead. As soon as we got into 1-2, I would start gaining on him and by the time we got to turn three I had to do my best to avoiding hitting him. The fuel he was dumping made it worse because traction on fuel is not very good.

Jason was lucky enough to get far enough ahead of him to keep the Camaro from passing under power. My battle, passing back and forth, with the Camaro aided Jason's escape. I had no one to help me and just had to wait for an extremely stupid mistake by the Camaro to get away from him. He made continual mistakes but I needed a big one. That did happen but it took too long.

My only chance of keeping up with Jason was to be able to draft on the oval. Once he got away, I had no chance of catching up without a big mistake on his part. Jason's mistakes don't come very often.
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Thanks for the explanation Gary and that is what it looked like. I guess that I was just giving the driver some benefit of the doubt. I actually like that body style as a GT1 (or I guess SP according to the results) car. Too bad it's not driven better.
I know about needing that draft situation. When I ran at Pueblo (many moons ago) it seemed the wind was always out of the North and I needed a draft from an SSB car to turn any decent lap times in the GT5 1200. (It was little more than an IT car with slicks)
 
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