Quote Originally Posted by Knestis View Post
So the only factors that contribute to on-track performance - by the above logic - are...

** Legality

** Weight

Really?

K

EDIT - On reflection, this REALLY pisses me off. Even if they'd been torn down to the bare tubs and declared squeaky clean (which they were not), a couple of examples of a car demonstrate speed in qualifying at one event, and it's "proof" that the process doesn't work...? Then quit dinking about and commit to rewards weight. Fold up the ITAC's tent and call it a day.
Doesn't matter if it's a couple of laps in one event or not - it demonstrates what the car can do. If the driver is wildly inconsistent and cracked off a 1:28 in an ITB car at Summit and then turned nothing but 1:37s the rest of the session it simply means that a consistent driver would be capable of turning the 1:28s virtually every lap in that car. Only two sources of error - illegality and/or the model.

Use the process to take 200lbs off the car and the wildcat driver will turn a 1:27 and 1:36s and the good driver will turn 1:27 every lap.

Errors in the model could be due to specification or input error. Based on what's been said in this thread, it sounds to me that the assumption regarding 25% gains would be the culprit. That doesn't invalidate the hallowed process, but does point at operator error.