[Ron Sutton]

Originally Posted by Ns RS

So what you’re sayin is if he lays off the cheese balls he’ll even be faster??

Nope. Greg's pretty light these days.

But learning how to drive one of these missiles takes a minute or two. (That's my slang for "awhile") The car will have so much downforce, the grip is amazing in the fast corners. It is confidence inspiring for sure. But the driver has to be smooth with the steering wheel & pedals, or you upset the air.

If the driver upsets the airflow over the car/splitter/wing/etc ... the downforce & grip evaporate for a bit.

So with high downforce cars you, or in this case Greg, need to work up to the limits a small step at a time. The car will be EASY to drive high 1:50's at Thunderhill (with Crows Nest). Mid 1:50's take concentration, but is still pretty comfortable. Low 1:50's take a lot of experience & skill. The driver has to hit their braking points the same every time, hit their turn in marks exactly the same every time & be smooth as glass with the steering wheel, as well as the throttle & braking.

That simply takes lots of seat time to achieve. Some drivers learn it in a year or two, some ten years & some never.

Most of you know I've worked with some pretty good talent. 413 of my wins were someone other than me driving. Greg has proven to be a very coachable & capable driver. Back when we first worked together in Old Yeller ... it was F&%$ing handful. His buddies were running 2:10's to 2:12's. Old Yeller's rear brakes had more force than the fronts. Greg was running 2:22's without spinning out and trying to go faster led to spin outs.

Once I got the brake bias right, so the car wasn't trying to kill him, he & I worked on his driving. Man! Did he improve a ton in one weekend. Once we fixed the brake bias, Greg worked his way all the way down to 2:08 to 2:10. Now Greg runs 2:04's in the car with improvements we made. 1:50's is another time zone.

Looking forward to our shake down of the Mustang on June 28th. We'll post photos.