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Post by Flying Tiger on Nov 6, 2011 14:32:13 GMT -6
Bob Jelley set a new track record at 1:23.9+, some .044 faster than Shane's record last month at 1:23.9+.
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Post by turbot on Nov 6, 2011 16:21:10 GMT -6
Bob Jelley set a new track record at 1:23.9+, some .044 faster than Shane's record last month at 1:23.9+. Bob, Shane and Nate were very fast, and some others were fast, too, not to name them all. Of course, Stan embarrassed me, LOL, by beating me with my own blue car, which is for sale on this site! Maybe I should sell the new one?! This seems to ME to be the fastest field since I started racing in the fall of '09. What say you? It was great to see so many SMs come to race. This was the largest field of SMs I've seen at our track in several years. Some drivers had been off the track so long they had cobwebs-but this weekend took care of that. Next race they'll be ready. It sure was nice to see Reg, y'all had a great turnout and hey, that's what will probably breed more of the same. Hat's off to the SMs that have been there all the while....you, Tommy, Ben to name a few. Bracket had their share of racers too, a couple back out of the woodwork and a few new peeps too. The rest of your point, heck, you could probably pile at least a full second on to each of the cars, spec and bracket (Henry Carter went 1.23.1) on a normal Louisiana 90+ deg. day, the weather was perfect and that probably bred good lap times. You were looking particularly good in y'all heat race until the scrape at T14. I'll be back for sure next round. T |
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Post by chris on Nov 6, 2011 16:43:06 GMT -6
Reggie, wait ill the mylaps times are posted, I think Bobs time was a 1-23.3 something. Great job Bob.
Times are always better this time of year with the ambient and the amount of sunshine we had but that takes nothing away from the efforts. With regards to Stan and your car, the 177 car is good, but I feel confident we could strap Stan into a big terd in a Spec terd class and he would do well along with all of the top SM drivers we have. Its all about being comfortable and seat time.
Watching the SM heat race, I had mixed emotions, glad to see litterally a 2 car battle for the lead and a 5 car battle for third. nervous because we had a 5 car battle for third. You can only play with fire for so long before someone gets burned and its fun to watch. To quote Tom in the tower, "there was so much great racing going on you didn't know where to look because you didn't want to miss anything."
Contact is always frowned upon and can not be condoned, but when you put 5 great and competetive personalities that close together at over 70 mph through a turn its hard to pinpoint blame. Someone makes an ever so slight bobble, causing in affect a "train" reaction and then what? My point is, to quote another great man, "sh** happens fast" and as long as all of the racers who are willing to put themselves in those positions understand that, we can all live and race happily ever after.
Something to look forward to is there were four SM cars that did not make the event, how bout adding Barry, Kieth,Kieth W and John K to the mix next time?
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Post by Flying Tiger on Nov 6, 2011 23:11:07 GMT -6
Bob's time was 1:23.931 according to mylaps.com. That's a new track record for SM. Good going Bob.
When 2 leading cars are nose to tail, with a car length or more between them, and are on the EXTREME OUTSIDE of a turn, a following car overtaking them on the INSIDE of that turn should not hit either of them, even if one or both lead cars slow a wee little bit-because the lead vehicles are ahead and are as far away to the outside as possible while staying on the track. Now, if the 3rd car were to dive-bomb the turn and not be able to slow down enough to make the turn...then sh#% will likely happen when he slides into the outside of the turn.
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Post by turbot on Nov 7, 2011 9:38:58 GMT -6
Bob's time was 1:23.931 according to mylaps.com. That's a new track record for SM. Good going Bob. When 2 leading cars are nose to tail, with a car length or more between them, and are on the EXTREME OUTSIDE of a turn, a following car overtaking them on the INSIDE of that turn should not hit either of them, even if one or both lead cars slow a wee little bit-because the lead vehicles are ahead and are as far away to the outside as possible while staying on the track. Now, if the 3rd car were to dive-bomb the turn and not be able to slow down enough to make the turn...then sh#% will likely happen when he slides into the outside of the turn. Yes, it was good to have so many cars in the field, and I'm hoping those other guys will come join in the fun. Yep, you should really have a reasonable expectation that the people around you aren't in so far over their head that there isn't room left to make a minor adjustment in the event that someone "bobbles". Unfortunately, sometimes, more often than not, I find myself having to drive my car and the car of the closest person to me as well...  T |
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Post by nine44s on Nov 7, 2011 20:14:42 GMT -6
Contact is always frowned upon and can not be condoned, but when you put 5 great and competetive personalities that close together at over 70 mph through a turn its hard to pinpoint blame. Someone makes an ever so slight bobble, causing in affect a "train" reaction and then what? My point is, to quote another great man, "sh** happens fast" and as long as all of the racers who are willing to put themselves in those positions understand that, we can all live and race happily ever after. Yet it seems relatively easy to assign blame on a start with more than 5 cars going into 1 turn.... I'll have to remember that quote if I ever find myself with the PCA stewards |
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Post by Flying Tiger on Nov 7, 2011 22:51:31 GMT -6
I saw and heard of more contact this past weekend than ever before, though we had no one hurt and no car totalled. I'm confident the ship will be righted soon. Our gentlemen's rule of "no contact" is a good one for amateurs like us, and I hope we can all strive to avoid all contact by giving the other guys enough room on the track.
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Post by luckypierre on Nov 10, 2011 19:38:25 GMT -6
I had a blast last Saturday and loved seeing so many SM's at the track. Did ya'll know that Nate Sparks is the NASA national SM champion? He was flying to LA on Monday to attend the Mazda shootout, I wished him good luck in winning (the winner gets a free ride in Pro MX-5 Cup next season). Great kid. I don't know how it turned out. One thing I really appreciate at Circuit Grand Bayou is the no contact rule. I wish SCCA had the same rule. I absolutely don't abide the "rubbin is racin" attitude that is so prevalent in SCCA. I ran into David Quinlan Monday - he said he came down with the flu or he would have been there Saturday. Heck, we might have a 20 car SM field some day soon! Coooool.  Bob |
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Post by Flying Tiger on Nov 10, 2011 19:54:37 GMT -6
There's just too much contact going on in Spec Miata class! |
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Post by vichang4 on Jan 16, 2012 17:32:06 GMT -6
Reggie,
How fast will we go?
When I started spec miata a 1.25.9 was top of the field. Here the latest developments;
Shane Fowler - 1.23.975 10/02/2011
Bob Jelly - 1.23.931 11/05/2011
Shane Fowler - 1.23.747 12/03/2011
Vic Toce - 1.23.187 01/15/2012
That's four records in four months. I do believe the Hoosiers are making a big difference. The first 3 to 5 laps out they are unbelievable. I also believe there is a 1.22 out there.
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Post by vichang4 on Feb 9, 2015 10:23:42 GMT -6
This is an old post but I had someone ask me about the track record recently. It was a sunny day with temperatures in the 50 to 60 range. We were all running Hoosiers back then which had an amazing first 2 to 4 laps and then fell off. I was in a fairly new Drago car which dyno'd 128 hp. Also the first set of Hoosiers on the car did not have much grip, but I remember the tires on the record lap had extremely high traction. The 2nd lap out I ran a 1.23.4 and thought my in car timer had made a mistake. I ran one more lap at 1.23.187.
Right day, right car, right tires.
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Post by Matt Gibson on Dec 21, 2016 21:21:28 GMT -6
GD that's fast....assuming new Toyos, how much time does a drago engine cut at CGB?
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Post by vichang4 on Feb 10, 2017 18:03:13 GMT -6
In an average car with a good motor I ran a 1:25. A Drago car is much more than just a 128 hp motor. Jim goes through the entire car and there are 100's of tweeks that he uses to get every second. Handling, balance,transmission, roll cage, everything is optimized. From an average car and good motor to a Drago car is 2 full seconds at CGB. Hoosiers are at least 1/2 second over Toyos.
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