mobonic

From my limited experience in the rain (it never rains in So cal), short shifting, smooth hands, and clean blips are your best friend.

Leigh2

The garage I run out of at Miller has had it happen a couple of times to cups, usually chunks of rubber hitting the loop. All loops are now still exposed but held in place by tape just in case...

Ricky Boo-Boo Johnson

We are going to update ours to include the spring - like the newer Cup cars have. I do like the tape idea also - will do that at the track this weekend also.

Ricky

Ricky Boo-Boo Johnson

External view of the start... start is at 2:55 mark.

Zuluracerx

So what is a radical? Looks like it is about 1000 pounds, sequential?, powerplant?

jrgordonsenior

He's so lucky Paul didn't collect him when he spun 3 times right in front of him. He would have run right thru/over that thing if he wasn't such an experienced racer.

Gotta love the self promotion. The only chronic pain I have is racing on the same track with one of those motorcycles. They're so low you can't see them in your mirrors until you turn-in and find one underneath you. They're a chronic pain in the ***....

Surfbum

/\ +1, we had another one race with us a couple years back, and inability to see them was the #1 complaint.

Boo Boo, sorry to hear about your electrical shut off.

BIG 928

ive raced with some radicals in my old 993 gt2 tube frame car, from what i remember the slow ones have 1100 kawasaki engines/with sequential gearboxes from the motorbike the engine came out of. the next one up had 1300 suzuki hayabusa, these could be bored out to 1500cc and with up to 250bhp. these could give me a good race. but the fastest ones which were to fast for me to catch had a v8 block with 2 hayabusa heads, so its a v8 bike engine from wat i could gather. they were 2600cc made from 370-460bhp and weighed 650kg. with a good driver the v8s are unbelievably fast!

Ricky Boo-Boo Johnson

I didn't know he was behind me until I just saw that video of the external view!!

PF is a class act and a great driver!

claykos

Damn! Looks like I missed a lot of fun! Seems like whatever event I end up missing is when all the fast cars decide to show up. Someone send me a damn memo!

But I hate firebird in the rain, so don't regret that. Unfortunately have scheduling conflicts for the next several events. See you guys sometime in march probably.

kubrick1

Crazy, same thing happened to me POC cal speed this year. Second lap in, red race. Had to sit in the car no power, so no radio back to the crew etc. Had to be 100+ degrees in the car, watching everyone pass by...good times. Was happy to at least find out nothing wrong with the car, made it back out for Sun race

MariusRacer

+1