"Dan Timko" <dtimko@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
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>I don't know, Arthur Emerson was in the TT this year at
>Meridian. I was amazed when I saw he ran the exact same time
>(to the thousandth) twice in a row. That tends to tell me he
>was pushing his car pretty well.
It isn't too hard to be consistant when you're driving the
whole course with *both* feet on the throttle. (Left foot
on top of right foot to make sure it doesn't lift!) On
Sunday, I was 100% flat on the gas from the end of worker
station #1 to the turn-around at station #4. Even so,
I was 12 MPH slower at the end of that straight than Rob
Heckel was in the VW GTI VR6 that finished one spot behind me.
As I've said before, the 180HP FWD TT stacks up nicely against
the Type-R on paper. In the right hands, I'm convinced that
it can hang with the torqueless terror on a long/fast course.
The 180HP AWD TT, on the other hand, is strong as a "short track"
and ProSolo car. Keep the top course speeds below 50 MPH and
it can win. Just look at the Fort Myers results from the
weekend before, and see how my AWD matched up.
>And he still came in after 4 Type R's (correct me if I'm wrong Arthur).
I prefer to think of it as having the fastest *real* GS car
there. Oh, and I did manage to beat ONE of them. :-)
>Those Type R's just have it made in a stock class with an LSD,
>front and rear strut bars, and a strong chassis.
Obviously, you've never looked at a TT too closely. Mine has
AWD, a front TRIANGULATED strut bar, and an even stronger
chassis. Those shiny triangles on either side of the transmission
hump aren't center console decorations, but rather reinforcements
between the floor pan and firewall to prevent chassis twist.
Unfortunately, the Type-R has more horsepower and weighs
400 pounds less.....
-Arthur ("Hey Mr. Washburn, you wanna drive it at Ayer???" edition)
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