On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:16:26AM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: > Larry Colen wrote: > > >That's a lot worse than around here. In a 70 car field, figure that > >two will badly crunch, and a few more will be pranged. > > Thank goodness, it's gotten a lot better around the southeast the last > two or three years. I think they've weeded out some of the weekend > warriors and most of the Spec Miata guys are serious about running the > series' now. They're still known semi-affectionately as Wreck Me > Otters, though, and they're still more physical on track than the Spec > Wrecker Fords that previously held the "bash 'em up" crown around here.
We used to call those guys "Sports Rambo". One of the prettiest things I've seen was two Sports Rambos, in the rain, turning left on Turn 1 at Sears Point, doing a synchronized spin and continue. For folks not familiar with racing classes: Sports Renault, which became Spec Racer Ford after a change in powerplant is a class of identically built purpose built racecars where the only thing that people are allowed to change is the suspension settings. The motors are sealed, and they run a spec tire. When I was driving a first gen Rx7, I loved them because the cheapest way to get a competitive advantage was new tires, so I could buy used tires for my track car really cheap. http://images.google.com/images?q=Spec+Racer+Ford&oe=utf-8&client=mozilla&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=7WuVSsDhO4LONdDaifoH&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5 > Our IT crowds are downright civil, for the most part. Nowdays, ours are too. It has become what production was 30-40 years ago. Also, with the economy, I hear that SM only has fields of 35-40 cars rather than 65-70. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
