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Old Mar 22, 2007 | 02:38 PM
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Default Re: Crossfire Cal Speedway Schedule

He was extremely grumpy as he had a few "bad eggs" in HPDE 1B & 2B from Saturday that had to be moved to HPDE 3. They were supposed to sign up for HPDE 3 but it was booked so they signed up for 1 & 2 instead and got out of hand passing on the oval where they shouldn't.

That and all the other HPDE boo-boos that happened on Saturday along with the totally packed schedule had him on edge. He was a lot more of an A-Hole than at Buttonwillow for sure.

Let's put it this way Derek, he was ready to flush (for the rest of the event) anyone that did any more passing in non passing zones in HPDE 1 & 2 by second session Sunday. He was really ticked off... probably a lack of sleep and not enough fun at the event on his part.

I'll state it again, he told me specifically that we SHOULD NOT have been doing that on street tires with stock brakes. He told Derek that he SHOULD be doing that with his setup (race level brakes, tires and suspension setup). This goes back to giving the inexperienced drivers a larger margin of safety.

I still think I need to work on my line consistency and turn entry speed. I got it right over half the time this weekend, but I found at least one instance on my videos where I blew each turn at least once. I didn't on the Chicanes, but those aren't really turns to me.

Derek, I too had a top entry speed of 125 into turn one and only felt I could carry 110 through turn two. I didn't feel the car getting loose, but at those speeds I wasn't sure how the car would react if it did start to track out to the wall and what I should do about it, so I played it safe.
 
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