Originally Posted by
Andy Bettencourt
I disagree. Both black VW's in the vid are ITB cars. Blizzards ITA is already headed toward the wall when the second one shoots up the center. I don't write that stuff off to power, I figure he got a huge run by actually having a radio and knowing when the green flies.
Car next to video car that gets a solid start is Tim Mullen and the second car that looks like he got shot out of a cannon looks like a GTI - so that would have been maybe Gleason or Miller? Just a great run from the back when everyone else was slower me thinks.
I think the reason it seemed the VW shot through so quickly is because everyone else was on the brakes and he wasn't.
Originally Posted by
CRallo
Well, this is easy for us because "hindsight is 20/20" and we can rewind it and watch the vid 15 times... lol
That said, opening the throttle would have put weight on the back of the car and settled it down, so it would not have had to have been chased all over the place...
In addition, it appears as though being light on the throttle attributed to the incident in the first place. The up hill is a fast corner and therefore a fair amount of power must be added early in the corner to properly balance the car... this was not done and you can actually see the car yaw or rotate a bit mid corner and this is what actually caused the contact with the curb...
I had a very simialr instance my self once as I was trying to clip closer to the curbing and moved a bit to far in! The pucker factor was high, but I managed to fight natural instict and follow my training... I kept the hammer down, settled the car down, used every bit of the extra pavement, but was even able to angle the car back to the right before unloading the car and straightening my hands over the top so that I never even touched the grass on top of the hill!
once again, hindsight is 20/20 and stuff happens, but the best thing is to be able to learn from it. One of my favorite things about working at Skip Barber was learning from other peoples incidents...
And how many front wheeled cars have you raced wheel to wheel???
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Originally Posted by
Kai Noeske
OMG, too funny!!!
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