Calculated from my spreadsheet racing log (not logbook), my finish rate is well over 90%!
. . . yeah NovaKar! thanks, Jay. Shiny Side Up, Joe Palmer TX Novakar #56 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cory McLeod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 9:27 PM Subject: Re: [F500] racing car counts > Marshall, > > You are right, we need to overcome the perceptions you listed. > > Maybe it's because I'm a mid-packer most of the time, but I would estimate my finish rate at 80%+. > > Cory > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Cory, > > The snapped belt may not be expensive in and of itself, but when the entire > weekend is thrown away because it breaks in lap 2, the effective cost is the > entire weekend, i.e., entry fee, hotel, tow gas, tires, etc. From my > experience, my actual finish rate hovers around 50%, and I do a LOT of preventive > maintenance, and have never hit another car, hit a wall, or otherwise created a > driver-error DNF. > > Under any circumstances, I think you missed my point (or I just didn't get > it across well). > > If you ask most people in the paddock what they think of F500, you will get > several responses, and these are what limit our attractiveness to those who > come into SCCA with no understanding of our class structures. > > 1) Unreliable > 2) Noisy (almost as bad as RX-7s or FMs) > 3) 'Not real race cars' or 'overgrown go-karts' > 4) Just another formula class with 2 cars on the track > > To solve perception #4 by growing, we have to deal with perceptions 1 > through 3. > > Also, if I may, has anyone thought about trying to get the word out by > putting information in karting magazines? Putting ads into SCCA is talking to > those who already know who we are, IMHO...... > > Marshall Mauney > 2002 Red Devil > > > > > In a message dated 7/23/2006 5:44:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > <<Marshall regarding reliability. If you run your engine stock/legal and > replace the belts on a reasonable cycle, I beleive our cars are very reliable. The > guys who got me into racing were IT drivers and they were also having to > work on their cars all the time. A big difference was when they had a > mechanical DNF, it was something much more expensvie than a $50 belt. > > I do agree that you can race a SS or IT and have long periods where you > don't have to spend so much time between races on maintenance (like we do), but > the guys that do that aren't winning national or ARRC races. In addition to > spending $25k for an engine from Sunbelt, how much reliability do you give up > when you tweak an SM to the point where it can win national races? > > I am not trying to flame Marshall, I just beleive that it is accrate to > describe our class as very reliable.>>> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > F500 mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change options please visit: > http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 > *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! *** > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. > _______________________________________________ > F500 mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change options please visit: > http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 > *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! *** _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! ***
