Larry Herman

Sounds like I could take all of the lead out!

I assume that the car is not weighed with the driver.

JimB

RWHP * 9.0 lbs = car + driver

My challenge is getting my car light enough.

Larry Herman

Oh, then it looks like I could run in GTS3 on my Hoosiers, because 2760 plus my weight just slots in there! ..... ..... .....

spazegun2213

you gonna start running nasa larry?

Larry Herman

I might. I would love to get back to Mid O but the Club date doesn't work for me. Also, I would like to race at VIR and I understand NASA runs there.

Jim Child

NASA gives you four chances to race at Mid Ohio in 2007:

April 20-22
July 13-15
August 17-19
September 13-16 NASA Nationals

You will find some great competition to run with in GTS-3 at Mid Ohio.

Larry Herman

Yeah, I saw. The top GTS-3 cars are about 2 seconds quicker than PCA C class. Then again, I can probably run about 200 lbs lighter than I do now, so that should help to close the gap some.

Jim Child

If you're looking at NASA Nationals lap times you need to consider that the track was faster in September than it was for the PCA race in May. Around July or so Mid Ohio ground down the curbs and now you can get all over them. Most guys, including myself, found about a one second improvement with the change.

Larry Herman

That's VERY encouraging news!

JimB

Larry,
I think it's pretty hard to compare PCA and NASA times at MO. The track was repaved for 2006 so previous years don't mean much. And, it rained almost the whole PCA weekend last summer so the times were pretty slow.

It looks like at most tracks the GTS3/PCA C times seem to be in the same neighborhood. I'm a little off the GTS4 times on some tracks but there's a whole bunch of stuff I can do to my car in NASA that I couldn't in PCA.

It should be fun.
Jim

RICHVIZZ951

Larry
I'm planning on running NASA next year as is a friend of mine. Basically it gives us 1 maybe 2 more Glen races (they may have a May as well as Oct race), 4 more Summit Point Races!!, 2 VIR and i think a LRP. They have a forum as well for our series GTS Challenge. A friend of mine who runs PCA also loves them. I cant wait to run with them, and its HP to weight classing. How can you beat all those additional races close to us.

Sean F

which NASA region hosts the Glen races?

Larry Herman

I belive it is the Northeast Region. I e-mailed them to see what I have to do to get a NASA license. We'll see!

Sean F

It's not the NE, I have their schedule for next year...just Pocono and Lime Rock (unless they are still giong to add dates)

Larry Herman

This was on the NE forum:
And they did run one event there last year. I would expect that they will have at least one this year.