Equal Time - In Defense of "Useless Items"

[grjones1]

Originally posted by Knestis:
I've sure seen a lot of stock car and drag racers changing jets at the track, having read their plugs (a la Jack Roush in half of the pics we see of him) and consulted their portable weather instruments (temp, relative humidity, and atmospheric pressure).

K

K,
I haven't seen too many NASCAR or IHRA racers changing jets in the middle of a race, Nor have you!?

BTW, congrats on your enduro. I'm impressed with that 2:31.

GRJ



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[planet6racing]

Oh goodness. Do we have to have this 3 year old argument again?

What happened to IT racing being fun?

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Bill
Planet 6 Racing
bill (at) planet6racing (dot) com

[grjones1]

Originally posted by planet6racing:
Oh goodness. Do we have to have this 3 year old argument again?

What happened to IT racing being fun?

Nor do I wish to continue the old argument, Bill, keep your FI and play with your ECU, just let me take out my passenger door glass and remove old "instruments".
Thanks,
GRJ



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[dickita15]

Originally posted by Knestis:
We need to disabuse ourselves once and for all of the notion that rules can legislate budgets. It just won't happen and people who want to go faster will spend money to do so. K

Kirk
If we take that attitude as gospel our costs will grow even faster. rules can help keep costs from growing faster and can reduce the return big spenders get for thier buck.
dick

p.s. Mr Jones. You are doing a good job. your debating skills are better when you are not angry.

[Knestis]

Thanks, GRJ. We actually turned a high 2:30 in practice Saturday morning but couldn't duplicate it after we took the muffler off.

I was talking specifically about tires, Dick. I've raced in open, sponsored, and spec tire series and at the end of the day, we are pretty much as fast as our tire budget is big - relatively speaking.

Where other aspects of preparation are concerned, while you ARE correct that it is possible to decrease the time gained for a given outlay of dough by limiting key technologies, only the degree of gain changes - not the effect of spending.

K

[grjones1]

We actually turned a high 2:30 in practice Saturday morning but couldn't duplicate it after we took the muffler off.

K[/B]

Amazing what a little back pressure will do.

GRJ