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- michael lang - 11-13-2008
Todd, I can't tell you how much I appreciate you putting up the vids. I often watch the ones you put up. I know watching them is helping my driving, it makes me want to get more & more seat time. Now the long winter begins...good thing for iracing.com
- fasthonda - 11-14-2008
hi mike!
thanks for the kind words! and winter will be over before you know it (there will be a NASA race and DE at VIR Full Course in Feb!!!
). i was just perusing through 'MyLaps', which is the computer system that records all the timed laps from my AMB transponder -- really neat software to look through after a race, and see how the performance and consistency was during the battle! here is the lap chart for me during the one hour sunday race:![[Image: summit1hoursupersprintrkk6.jpg]](http://img515.imageshack.us/my.php?image=summit1hoursupersprintrkk6.jpg)
its interesting to look at the chart; i am a pretty 'fast starter'; i am comfortable running very hard on cold tires, which some folks have a problem with. if you look at the chart, you can see that after the start, i was immediately at a 1:28.0, and that was when all 5 of us were fighting with each other and swapping positions. for about the next 10 laps, i was pushing at about 10/10ths; and once i got to the front of our pack of 4 tin-tops (me, the red bmw, the white bmw, and the dark miata) i was able to put my head down and just DRIVE very hard; lap 5 thru lap 9 you can see this -- 1:27.4, 1:27.3, 1:27.1, 1:27.1, 1:27.1. i started to ease up just a touch for a while, as i had nice lead (still keeping it mostly in the 1:28s; depending on traffic). then, the full course yellow came, and bunched us up tight again for the restart.... i immediately ran very hard again (survived the melee spin in T3, and then ran a bunch of fast laps - 1:27.3, 1:27.4, 1:27.3, 1:27.1, 1:27.1 ). you see, the miata was the only of the 'real fast' tin-tops back behind me; he got thru the T3 melee clean, and was about 5-8 car lengths back. i ran at 10/10ths again, because i could see he was desperate to close on me, and if he got close enough, he'd use my big ass probe as a draft, and then try to get me in the tight stuff!!! i couldn't let that happen, so i stood on the ole probe HARD! you can see in the lap chart that i then backed it off to mid/low 1:28s til the finish (with an occasional slower lap due to heavy lap traffic). i was able to relax, because the miata made an error and fell off in a big way; he went in two laps early (not sure if he broke something, too?). anyway, its really neat info to look at and go over; on the website that hosts the info, you can even compare yourself to another competitor, lap for lap. neat stuff! enjoy, and see you soon at a track near you!
todd
- bobt993 - 11-14-2008
Todd, too much caffeine!! Put the cars away for a couple of weeks and watch Wheel of Fortune at night.
Looks like a good end to the season. Despite my injector issues, it turns out the throttle cable was incorrectly installed into the cruise control clip (60% throttle max). So I am going over the entire car. Hope to get a track day in or two before Nasa Feb VIR event. - fasthonda - 11-14-2008
hey bob! its good to hear that you figured out what was going on with the 993; now that you have fixed your injector problem, and corrected the throttle cable -- now you should have a nice smooth dyno curve!!!
and NOW you can go to town on those M3s!!!!todd