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Dave (Maranelloman)
Advanced Member
Username: Maranelloman
Post Number: 2936
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 03, 2003 - 8:35 pm: | |
Wish I could have been there, Mitch. It is the first of Ed's event that I have missed... |
William Huber (Solipsist)
Intermediate Member
Username: Solipsist
Post Number: 1346
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 03, 2003 - 8:02 pm: | |
I thought you guys were joking at the driver's meeting? THAT WAS REALLY HIM!!!??? HOLY CRAP!! You guys gave me pointers after I spun out in turn 1. A nice really nice guy to meet & thanks again for the helpful driving tips Mitch. |
Mitch Alsup (Mitch_alsup)
Intermediate Member
Username: Mitch_alsup
Post Number: 1151
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 03, 2003 - 7:13 pm: | |
Through a special set of circumstances, I got the opportunity to ride in a F355 Challenge car with Eliot Forbes Robinson at the wheel.
Dave More gets a special thanks for setting up the adventure.
Ed Paez ges a special thanks for running track events with vanishingly low levels of "politics".
Dana Gribi get special thanks for allowing me to ride and drive the F355 challenge car
EFR gets special thanks just for being EFR
In the resent past I have been able to do 2:10s at TWS (long course) on street tires;
EFR warming up on a track he has never been on turns 1:55s in two sessions (track record when the F355 challenge cars ran at TWS is mid 1:52s.
EFR thinks with a couple more sessions it would be easy to run 1:52s
I turn 1:59s in a challenge car 11-12 seconds faster than what I have been driving (whoo-hoo)
One of the special things about being in a car with EFR was the extreme delicacy displayed when at the wheel. I never got the feeling that the car was being pressed, or that it was anything but a simple reconesance lap. Its just the times were so low....where I would have and feel the car leaned over on the slicks and a big cornering vector while driving, the car felt different with EFR at the helm, light on its feet, unstressed, going about its business with aplomb and grace. Truely unbelievable.
Thanks to all, once again |
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