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Sorry Ralph.
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I'm not sure but there is a lot of knowledge and technology that was not available 50 years ago when the car was new.Yeah, Ralph, stick it.
Like to know what's powering that thing and what class he's racing in. Missed an apex or two but overall pretty decent driving. Not his first rodeo for sure.
Yeah, Ralph, stick it.
Like to know what's powering that thing and what class he's racing in. Missed an apex or two but overall pretty decent driving. Not his first rodeo for sure.
I take it you've never driven a car at speed on a road race course full of cars of your class and several others. It's great fun that takes a good degree of skill and experience to do as well as this guy's exhibiting in an iconic car. Try it, you'll like it.Yeah, Ralph, stick it.
Like to know what's powering that thing and what class he's racing in. Missed an apex or two but overall pretty decent driving. Not his first rodeo for sure.
I'm not sure what the point of this was supposed to be --- I kept waiting for the crash, didn't find it --- but that car is either grossly unstable or I'm drunk. And it's not the latter.
I take it you've never driven a car at speed on a road race course full of cars of your class and several others. It's great fun that takes a good degree of skill and experience to do as well as this guy's exhibiting in an iconic car. Try it, you'll like it.Yeah, Ralph, stick it.
Like to know what's powering that thing and what class he's racing in. Missed an apex or two but overall pretty decent driving. Not his first rodeo for sure.
I'm not sure what the point of this was supposed to be --- I kept waiting for the crash, didn't find it --- but that car is either grossly unstable or I'm drunk. And it's not the latter.
I take it you've never driven a car at speed on a road race course full of cars of your class and several others. It's great fun that takes a good degree of skill and experience to do as well as this guy's exhibiting in an iconic car. Try it, you'll like it.Yeah, Ralph, stick it.
Like to know what's powering that thing and what class he's racing in. Missed an apex or two but overall pretty decent driving. Not his first rodeo for sure.
I'm not sure what the point of this was supposed to be --- I kept waiting for the crash, didn't find it --- but that car is either grossly unstable or I'm drunk. And it's not the latter.
Look, I agree the guy is skilled to keep this car on the road. But look at what the car is doing that he has to overcome and correct. This car's a design disaster.
What I appreciate is a car that does exactly what I tell it, no matter how outrageous the order. That's why I drive a MINI on these hairpin Appalachian switchbacks --- I don't want a car that behaves as erratically as this one.
To P F Tinmore: Just a reminder:Sorry Ralph.
If you were driving your MINI at much higher speeds while attempting to negotiate those switchbacks it would react more erratically too. That's the difference.
On a road course, or ovals or tri-ovals for that matter, you gotta be aggressive speed-wise. If you're not willing or don't know how to hang it out there on the edge you're not going to win, let along finish well. It's not all just raw speed though. It's a combination of it and how well you handle the turns/corners. You have to know how to set yourself up entering one in order to get through it cleanly and back on the gas so you bleed off as little speed as possible. Screwing up various aspects of that can also contribute to looking "erratic" out there, but really that's the driver's fault not the car's.
Nice choice on your MINI. Do you like it? I've been eyeballing them for a while now and might just take the leap one of these days. BMW's really done a lot for the brand and they're doing well and gaining in popularity with the SCCA crowd.
A car's reason for being is to get you where you are going. Living in northern Ohio that can get difficult.
I never experienced any bad behavior from any of mine. (I had four all early models) Under normal driving you could not tell you were driving a rear engine car. However, the car was so much fun to drive it was easy to drive one hard. So I can see why some people could get into trouble. I had mine in a four wheel drift regularly but it never spun around.Yeah, Ralph, stick it.
Like to know what's powering that thing and what class he's racing in. Missed an apex or two but overall pretty decent driving. Not his first rodeo for sure.
I'm not sure what the point of this was supposed to be --- I kept waiting for the crash, didn't find it --- but that car is either grossly unstable or I'm drunk. And it's not the latter.