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Great video!

The new engine in Penny is great.. I had the second fasted top speed in that event at 96 mph.. I wonder what the distance was?

Kyle at DSE just edged me out at 97mph.. if I had know I would have stayed in it a couple of seconds more.. :) ... I know I could take him!!! :unibrow:

The going was much more fun than the stopping.. I need to hit a drag strip.

Pennys new motor is sick!! I would love to see you take her to the drags. Some sticky drag radials should help get her kinda hooked up.

Vey cool ! My son, nephew and I had a blast ! THANKS BILL !!

Wow, that is impressive. :wow: 5 seconds faster than the top time is amazing.

What were his impressions of the car?

At that time.. later Ryan of DSE nailed one run faster with a 1:02.8 -- when Nathan heard this he said he wanted the car back since he knew there was more in it.. I said one set of tires a weekend was all I could afford! lol

Nathan loved the car.. One comment was "this doesn't drive like an old car!" (I told him there's not much old left in it)... He also said he kept pushing harder thinking "it's going to break.. it's going to break" but it never did and he was truly shocked. He LOVED the power and how he could flat foot whenever he wanted.

Then he got into a wierd driver speak deal.. something about how when the car started to push he would just mash the gas and the back would plant down and then he would turn the wheel (to the direction he needed to go).. let off the gas a bit and the car would pivot in that direction. I'm not a good enough driver to really get what he was explaining. With a few more laps he knows it could go faster so I'm taking that as a big fat compliment.

Nathan and Ryan show what REALLY great drivers can do with really good cars.

1:02 is quick, what was the fast lap of the day?

Videos like these are why I spent a little extra so I can beat the piss out of it.. and if it breaks.. Fix it..

Awesome vids.:hail:

Yea, Ryan had one lap that was just ON and he dipped into the 1:02.8 range.. Dave in my car ran a 1:07.0 and Finch ran a 106.8 I think.. Kyle was in the 104 or 105 range and there was a crazy vette there with good times. Speed tech did great with thier driver as well with a time in the low 1:03 range (now confired at 1:03 flat).

I don't have all the times yet.

I was happy with what Nathan did since he had never driven the car before that day.

I downloaded the track data from Nathan's run... pretty cool stuff. He had consistent 1.3g turns and a spike of 1.54 without spinning. For reference I've never seen a number that high on my data logger. The BFG guy swears it hit 120something but the GPS data says just over 117. For comparison I hit 96 and Dave hit 111. I really like the 0.87g acceleration from a roll ;)

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