August Summit Registration is open

[Maengelito]

You have GOT to be kidding me. She failed comp school back when me and .RJ took it, you mean they eventually passed her?!?!

She was racing last year in one of the kingrat rentals... I may have used the chrome horn a few times on her in qualifying :lol:

Am I the only one not seeing anything wrong with having a little more oontz under the hood?

No because of all of MM thinks we should be drivign stock miatas all around the track. Just because that may be the best way doesnt mean thats what people want to do. Sorry, when im closing in on a brand new viper in the corners and then get on the straightaways, I dont want to be completely rolled, I dont mind losing some car lengths that I can catch back up, but being obliterated loses a lot of its fun. Plus its fun to blow by you miata and civic guys even if you are keeping up in the corners. :lol:

horsepower is never a bad thing, but i feel the learning curve is a lot steeper if you dont have power. sure, i get eaten up by lots of high horsepower bling in the instructor group but the fact of the matter is that i cant afford to buy a Z06 or porsche let alone track it and have the money for monster 335 tires for the rear. when i was in group 1 and 2, there were several instances where i'd walk all over cars with double or even triple my horsepower, but at the same time, i'd be humbled by a crx or saturn in the same session. nowadays i still hang with the cars of similar power in my group and can run a decent (but not great) lap time on old and hard compound street tires.

i know i can still improve a lot but i'm still having fun driving and i play with different lines and different strategies for corners and see how it works. sometimes it does, most of the time it doesnt, but i atleast know that for next time, i shouldnt do that. i always try to tell my students to use whatever situation they're in to learn. if you cant help it that you're stuck in the middle of a train of cars, work on keeping your vision up or your line at a slightly abbreviated pace. if you havent dialed in your car and you're understeering at every corner, use that to learn to drive a car that is extremely prone to plow. you only get so much track time per weekend and every single person out on track in all groups does not know everything there is to know about driving. if they did, they wouldnt be at some amateur club race.