Anyone gone from racing Porsches, to formula cars and back
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Yeah, Vaughn, that sounds great! And a 56 sec lap, with the chicane! Motorcycle engine gives a sequential box, so that's a hell of a ride. Only caveat; those things are small.
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Open cockpit = the ability to show off gravel scuff marks and rubber streaks on your helmet.
Side story: First day at competition school, I'm unloading the car and I see a guy in the paddock unloading Windex. I think, "Crap! I didn't bring ...." Oh yah, no need for Windex when you wear your windshield on your face.
Side story: First day at competition school, I'm unloading the car and I see a guy in the paddock unloading Windex. I think, "Crap! I didn't bring ...." Oh yah, no need for Windex when you wear your windshield on your face.
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That would explain it! It is funny being on track with Vees. From behind they look like 1930s Indy Cars. They run ridiculous slip angles, and they make SRFs look like LMP cars in the straights. But they are a close-knit, supportive group.
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At the big events you'll see the first five who've changed positions 10 times a lap come around the final turn and then see all five split and make a run to S/F. Crazy stuff.
Camera car looks like a Swift DB1 who was pretty tentative in the beginning. Telltales to distinquish it from a Vee would be the big front tires (relative to the FV
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Here's a hot dice in F/F that the same Swift buddy just sent me, later in that race:
http://contour.com/stories/scca-sfr-...1-thill-4-9-11
http://contour.com/stories/scca-sfr-...1-thill-4-9-11