OT: so it obviously isn't a 993 but will be my 'budget' track car this year...
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wow.. if I had your luck I might quit too ![Frown](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/frown.gif)
..sorry to hear this....
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Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts
This is the key reason why I don't race anymore. You need a trailer, a truck of some sort, and a place to keep them. I remember getting 50 miles out of town on the way to Mid-Ohio once when the trans on my Dodge van started slipping. Back to the shop, beg a racing friend to lend a van, move all the spares over to the 2nd van. Then during the race I hit an oil slick while running 3rd and shortened the car by a foot, and stretched my back by an inch.
AND I remember standing in the alley outside my shop, just after a rainstorm, arc-welding my trailer back togethter so I could tow 9 hours to the SCCA runoffs at Road Atlanta.
AND I remember seeing flying squirrels and all kinds of other weird **** that wasn't really there while I drove alone, exhausted, thru the night.
AND I remember wondering why I was so far down on power and then coming back from the runoffs, dissassembling the engine and finding three broken piston rings.
(OK maybe there's more than one reason I don't race any more....)
hmmmm.....but now I'm much smarter and richer so I would never have these types of problems again, right....
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AND I remember standing in the alley outside my shop, just after a rainstorm, arc-welding my trailer back togethter so I could tow 9 hours to the SCCA runoffs at Road Atlanta.
AND I remember seeing flying squirrels and all kinds of other weird **** that wasn't really there while I drove alone, exhausted, thru the night.
AND I remember wondering why I was so far down on power and then coming back from the runoffs, dissassembling the engine and finding three broken piston rings.
(OK maybe there's more than one reason I don't race any more....)
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hmmmm.....but now I'm much smarter and richer so I would never have these types of problems again, right....
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Originally Posted by cab&coupe
Chris, BTW good luck on turning the 993 and with the new track car. Thanks for your feedback.
thanks much and your welcome!
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Originally Posted by TheOtherEric
Then you're getting more life on RA1's than me! I'm getting 30 sessions on the rears, which at 25 miles/session comes to 750 miles life (7.5 days for me). Not sure how you're able to drive 200+ miles in one track day...you must be *really* fast. ![Wink](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif)
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my record was 315 miles in ONE day. that record was broken by my friend at 360+ miles in one day.
by 800 miles, i have to take it easy on the RA1's. but being cheap, i forged on.
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Originally Posted by mooty
i usually drive back to back session. basically i pay as if i had two drivers. i am TWO drivers
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Originally Posted by ceboyd
wow.. if I had your luck I might quit too ![Frown](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/frown.gif)
..sorry to hear this....
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Hey, Chris...didn't mean that post to be such a downer. I remember lots of good things too.....
--Racing in the Great Pumpkin in the fall at Nelson Ledges when the trees were turning...
--Pitting next to Paul Newman at Mid-Ohio when SCCA was the support race for a Trans-Am....
--Qualifying 3rd out of 20 cars on a damp track during a hard-fought national because my brothers put slicks on instead of rains. (Won a regional once that way too.)
--Laying big black streaks down coming out from under the bridge at Road Atlanta.
I've got a lot of cool pics of victory laps in that old TR-6 and I wouldn't trade away those experiences for anything.
But damn, unless you're rich, it's a ton of work.
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But damn, unless you're rich, it's a ton of work.
Have unlimited free time, a completely flexible schedule and no family or a VERY understanding family. Hard to miss kids birthdays, anniversaries etc... for a racing event.
JoH, your exhaustion comment is so true(and funny). My wife was more worried about me driving home one year from Laguna Seca than the time that I was on the track.