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06-29-2011, 05:14 AM
DJbrand1 wrote
Going back to my original intent of the question, which would be the better platform to learn on? (keeping small 27 year old budget in mind
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What I meant was let's say you have $40k to spend and your choices are a 2005 911 or a C6 Z06. The Z06 has more power and roughly the same weight right? If both cars are driven equally hard then the Z06 is probably going to cost more to run because it's faster.
People do DE for different reasons. For some people it's about the cars (or a car), some its driving but also the social aspect. If your goal is to be fast then the best thing you can do is buy something slow and cheap. Slow so you can learn to drive fast and cheap so that you can run more events, afford coaching, etc...
In a slow car like a Miata, Integra, many BMWs like an e30 or e36 325i, Corrado, anything like that -- when you blow a turn and you see someone gain car lengths on you the thought pattern is like "holy crap, it's going to take me 10 laps to make that back up" versus in a high hp car "oh well, I'll just get on the throttle a millisecond earlier next straight. Slight exaggeration but you get the point.
I like the old 911's of course for learning this stuff but the challenge is that they are just a lot more difficult to drive fast than either a modern 911 or any other car that has the engine in a more common location. If you can drive an old 911 fast then you can drive anything fast, the only challenge is not wrecking while you're learning.
Going back to my original intent of the question, which would be the better platform to learn on? (keeping small 27 year old budget in mind
)[/quote]What I meant was let's say you have $40k to spend and your choices are a 2005 911 or a C6 Z06. The Z06 has more power and roughly the same weight right? If both cars are driven equally hard then the Z06 is probably going to cost more to run because it's faster.
People do DE for different reasons. For some people it's about the cars (or a car), some its driving but also the social aspect. If your goal is to be fast then the best thing you can do is buy something slow and cheap. Slow so you can learn to drive fast and cheap so that you can run more events, afford coaching, etc...
In a slow car like a Miata, Integra, many BMWs like an e30 or e36 325i, Corrado, anything like that -- when you blow a turn and you see someone gain car lengths on you the thought pattern is like "holy crap, it's going to take me 10 laps to make that back up" versus in a high hp car "oh well, I'll just get on the throttle a millisecond earlier next straight. Slight exaggeration but you get the point.
I like the old 911's of course for learning this stuff but the challenge is that they are just a lot more difficult to drive fast than either a modern 911 or any other car that has the engine in a more common location. If you can drive an old 911 fast then you can drive anything fast, the only challenge is not wrecking while you're learning.