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10-27-2008, 02:00 PM
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His wheel should have straightened around the apex(~ :19) and then he would have been on his way with only loosing a few tenths.
10-27-2008, 02:01 PM
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I don't consider it a save if the car starts going back the other direction...you only get a tank slapper when you don't "save" it the first time. Once the tank starts slapping, you are way behind the car and just along for the ride. If it doesn't hit the wall, you're lucky, but it's not a save.
10-27-2008, 02:17 PM
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It really wasn't a save...I was just lucky. If you look at it in slow motion, the whole problem actually started not from not bringing the wheel back quickly enough after the first correction but from not putting enough correction in initially. When the first rotation started I thought it would be fairly mild and I put in a small amount of correction and went back to center. When that didn't work, I had to dial in a lot and fast - hence the flying hands. I was behind it the entire way from there.
10-27-2008, 02:25 PM
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let's call it a lucky, kinda, maybe, sort of save. Or, let's write an intrawebs definition for "save"
By the way, I did label it tankslapper and not a save
By the way, I did label it tankslapper and not a save
10-27-2008, 02:25 PM
#142
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It really wasn't a save...I was just lucky. If you look at it in slow motion, the whole problem actually started not from not bringing the wheel back quickly enough after the first correction but from not putting enough correction in initially. When the first rotation started I thought it would be fairly mild and I put in a small amount of correction and went back to center. When that didn't work, I had to dial in a lot and fast - hence the flying hands. I was behind it the entire way from there.
Not a save huh? I bet the situation would have been much better had you not touched the wheel at all and slowed down the car with the brakes
10-27-2008, 03:31 PM
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You must not have been listening at the driver's meeting when we discussed T1 and 4 off. When it comes to defining the rules, our Region follows the recommendations of the Watkins Glen track management and are consistent with the other PCA Regions that run there.
I think the point that you are missing is that you were driving over your ability, the first session of the first day, immediately after being signed off by the Region chief instructor to run in the advanced group. Not a good way to start off an event.
I think the point that you are missing is that you were driving over your ability, the first session of the first day, immediately after being signed off by the Region chief instructor to run in the advanced group. Not a good way to start off an event.
10-27-2008, 04:33 PM
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I've posted this one before, but here is what I think is a pretty good save (<- note feeble attempt at humility). It occurs at about the 1:25 mark as I move right to defend turn 1 as Greg Pickerall is right behind me. I enter a little too fast and the back end steps out very quickly. It took ridiculously fast hands to catch it, and though I have watched it many times, I still don't know exactly how I did it.
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10-27-2008, 09:05 PM
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10-27-2008, 09:32 PM
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In deference to Greg and Bryan, good job driving it back to the paddock instead of having the wrecker bring it back for you.
In deference to Greg and Bryan, good job driving it back to the paddock instead of having the wrecker bring it back for you.
