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Post by RyanC » Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:39 am

L98Terror wrote:
Grippy wrote:Well L98, if you were the guy I rode with at Mosport in the black C4, I must commend you! You were the first HP car that I have seen that was driven like a Miata, smooth and flowing, fast in the corners and faster on the straights.

I had great fun chasing you down! At least until you hit the warp button on the back straight.
Actually I was in the Blue Z06 (you know FTD), my friend Jon was in the Black C4
You guys were friggin' sandbaggin! I thought I had a chance for FTD (for the first time evar!!!111!ones) based on following you in the practice sessions, but then you found another couple seconds in the TT and it was sayonara! Look forward to trying again at Lime Rock... :D

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Post by L98Terror » Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:44 am

RyanC wrote:
L98Terror wrote:
Grippy wrote:Well L98, if you were the guy I rode with at Mosport in the black C4, I must commend you! You were the first HP car that I have seen that was driven like a Miata, smooth and flowing, fast in the corners and faster on the straights.

I had great fun chasing you down! At least until you hit the warp button on the back straight.
Actually I was in the Blue Z06 (you know FTD), my friend Jon was in the Black C4
You guys were friggin' sandbaggin! I thought I had a chance for FTD (for the first time evar!!!111!ones) based on following you in the practice sessions, but then you found another couple seconds in the TT and it was sayonara! Look forward to trying again at Lime Rock... :D

Well there were two things going on the first day, one I was following Jon (Black C4) to learn the line because I never had been to the track before. (he still claims he's faster than me) and I was running my old Nitto 555RII (over 2 years old & tons of track time)

For the second day I ran my Nitto NT-01s 315/18 in rear vs 275/17 at least 2 seconds faster.

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Post by rajito » Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:38 am

...and a 1:01.6 at LRP last year in 40 degree weather. Glad to see someone actually driving the mid life crisis car like like it was meant to be driven. 8)

But! (_|_) To put things in perspective, two E30 M3's ran 1:01.7 and 1:02.2. Holy hell!

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Post by WillM » Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:12 pm

rajito wrote: But! (_|_) To put things in perspective, two E30 M3's ran 1:01.7 and 1:02.2. Holy hell!

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Perspective? A local guy (Andy B) recently set a class record @ LRP in his 1.8 ITA Miata... 1:01.4 !

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Post by rajito » Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:36 pm

WillM wrote:Perspective? A local guy (Andy B) recently set a class record @ LRP in his 1.8 ITA Miata... 1:01.4 !

:twisted: :shock:
Is he cute and available?

Wow! :shock:

Srsly, I've never run LRP in anything other than November. Any idea how much quicker the track is when it's not frozen?

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Post by Grippy » Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:44 pm

He did that lap a few weeks ago, during a race at the NARRC runnoffs.

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Post by rajito » Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:57 pm

By the way, I didn't mean to take anything away from him. 1:01.4 in an ITA Miata is amazingly quick and ballsy.

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Post by turtlevette » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:03 pm

Captin, I can't change the laws of physics.

A 2400# car is gonna corner harder than a 3200# car.

All the difference is being made up on the straights. I can really see it. I lose much more ground to HP cars on the straight than in corners.

The stangs and new vettes walk me on Mario straight like i'm standing still with foot putting 200# pressure on go pedal. :lol:

Lets settle the argument and put a g meter in a Z-06 and same meter in a Miata.

Nate gave me a ride in his Miata a few years ago. I was begging him to let me out after 1 lap. He didn't want puke all over his dash. :lol:

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Post by Grippy » Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:58 pm

Nate gave me a ride in his Miata a few years ago. I was begging him to let me out after 1 lap. He didn't want puke all over his dash.
LOL, I bet Nate gets that a lot :wink:

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Post by L98Terror » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:42 pm

turtlevette wrote:Captin, I can't change the laws of physics.

A 2400# car is gonna corner harder than a 3200# car.

All the difference is being made up on the straights. I can really see it. I lose much more ground to HP cars on the straight than in corners.

The stangs and new vettes walk me on Mario straight like i'm standing still with foot putting 200# pressure on go pedal. :lol:

Lets settle the argument and put a g meter in a Z-06 and same meter in a Miata.

Nate gave me a ride in his Miata a few years ago. I was begging him to let me out after 1 lap. He didn't want puke all over his dash. :lol:

I'm in let's do it, I have the Z06


1:01.4 is smoking fast I looked at the SCCA National race in june and the T1 times were right around the 1:00 mark :shock: and the fastest lap by a mx-5 was a 103.369

http://www.users.fast.net/~nescca/natlrresults.pdf

Lime rock is a track where slow cars can go fast

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Post by L98Terror » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:44 pm

RyanC wrote:
L98Terror wrote:
Grippy wrote:Well L98, if you were the guy I rode with at Mosport in the black C4, I must commend you! You were the first HP car that I have seen that was driven like a Miata, smooth and flowing, fast in the corners and faster on the straights.

I had great fun chasing you down! At least until you hit the warp button on the back straight.
Actually I was in the Blue Z06 (you know FTD), my friend Jon was in the Black C4
You guys were friggin' sandbaggin! I thought I had a chance for FTD (for the first time evar!!!111!ones) based on following you in the practice sessions, but then you found another couple seconds in the TT and it was sayonara! Look forward to trying again at Lime Rock... :D

Hook up with us at the track so we can go out together, It will make for some great fun

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