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Old 11-29-2007, 07:14 AM
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The fastest lap time at the RTH2 track day was Bret's Buick..

The fastest car on street tires at the RTH3 was Bret's Chevelle.. second place was his other chevelle.

Bret's Mustang on track tires was almost as fast as a fully track prepped C5 Vette at that same event.

ART doesn't have to make stuff up, they've proven that it works.

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However, there are two ways to measure cornering g-force; sustained and average.

When we test we run the skidpad in two directions. Add the two best times and divide by two. This gives the average g. I could be that they used a device (Racepak, g-tech, etc) and got a peak reading of 1.2 g. and so long as it wasn't in a slide (ie, the car was still under control) then saying it handled a peak of 1.2 g is perfectly valid.

A 1.2 reading for "average" is very hard.. I've never seen it done. The ART Vette managed 1.03 g on the skid pad and that car weighs nothing and has a very low COG.

Anyways, I know Bret and he doesn't make empty claims.
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