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Originally Posted by JKnight
I had a very similar experience playing with some little Formula Ford cars down at the Indee Motorsports Park down in BFE AZ. I finally got a little open space after being held up by slow traffic all day, missed my line and overcooked the exit of turn 2 only to find myself looping a 180. Had to get hard on the brakes to not back into the tire-barrier. The instructor pulls up in the truck and says "what happened?", I raised my visor and said "just ran out of talent, that's all".
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Yeah --- I've run Indee --- and your BFE (Wilcox is the actual address - a friend owns the track!) description is spot on! OMG you're out in the pucker weeds!
One of the things I've been trying to do -- is to run a bit off line once in awhile just to experiment a little --- since, in traffic - that (being off line) happens all the time. You get a point by -- you mash it -- and that corner is coming up quick and you're off line and completely on the wrong side of the track… Now you're all in -- and driving your ass off! Or when you are hauling azz and all of a sudden the guy in front of you is all over the brakes way earlier than you would be --- and it's whoa! baby….
It's one thing to run these RTTC type events -- were it's a single car on the track -- it's quite another when you have traffic!
PT cars have huge by wide tires -- street tires yes -- but good quality street tires -- and they have huge brakes…. Charley and I are running 245's…. he's still running drum rears --- and I have disc all around but they're tiny little two piston fronts and single rears…. You really notice the braking "deficiencies" of these cars -- even compared to my newer big brake street cars!