There are no free lunches.
Running at the top of the pack always involves work.
If you truly want to win-you better NOT be drinking beer when you could be
working on your car-even if it is just checking every bolt for tightness on
a spec Miata.
I have heard of racers who went back to FF1600 because it was more fun and
about as time intensive and expensive as running at the top of the pack in
Spec Miata.
It all depends what you are willing to settle for in terms of finishing
postion as to how much work you put in in many cases.
MC engines, transmissions, and shifters will thwart people just as easily as
any other motor combo.
I have been with a DSR racer who bent valves in a MC engine during practice
and had to swap out the motor overnight. Others have problems with their
transmission shifting or with the clutch. Remember, an oval track minisprint
doesn't shift very much. Pretty easy on the clutch, shifter and tranny.
With a very low final drive, that also takes a lot of stress off the tranny.
One can also look at ANY racing near the top as an intelligence test for
their them and their team (if they have one).
If one is smart about it, one will NOT be excessively struggling to keep
their motor from burning down or doing a ton of work to get their clutching
correct at every major event.
If you do not wish to work really hard on your CAR (whatever it is)-then go
to an indoor go-kart track instead, or just be resigned to running mid to
botton of pack.
Incidently, running at the TOP of the indoor kart track pyramid also
involves time and money.
Locally, the father and son who have repeatedly been 1 and 2 out of about
55,000 customers at the F1 Factory on Washington street, have to spend every
spare minute at the track driving or else be working to get more money to
spend on track time.
Chuck
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Subject: Re: [F500] Converting FF2000 to F1000 instead
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:23:04 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
EXACTLY Chris...glad someone else gets it. Let's not forget to mention
better potential reliability with the proposed "ALTERNATIVE" package.
Honestly, what other class spends more time working on their cars at the
track than us? None...including CSR, DSR, F1000 or those stupid mini stock
car wanna-be's that have motorcycle engines in them. We all watch them as
they walk by us going to the social on Saturday afternoon to drink free
beer. We're usually the first to get there, the last to leave and the
busiest during the day...atleast if you're running up front that is. It's
been like that for the past 5 years that I've raced 500's and I've seen if
from others I've competed against as well. That's why we do have the
friendliest class b/c we spend all our time helping each other repair our
cars or loaning out spare parts to fix them. I know some of you are
laughing right now at the truth of this!
At the Road Atlanta national, Dan and Clint spent a boat load of time
working on his and my 500 (both engine related), not to mention Clint
staying at the track later that evening to help put a spare 494 in Chuck
McAbee's car so he could make the race. The next weekend at the regional
at CMP, I watched Mark Lindsey's team spend a good bit of time working on
his two cars as well as Greg Rheile having to leave early based on a
component failure (not engine related) that he was unable to repair in time
to make the race.
I was able to observe all of this b/c all I had to do was check oil, lug
nuts and tire pressures on my Spec Miata that I was racing for those 3
races! I also made every practice & qualifying session plus finished every
lap of each race. I can't say the same for the majority of the 500's I've
mentioned here.
js
"Chuck, IMHO in the case of the F500 conversion, you end up with car you
can work on and tune without an engineering degree."
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