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Re: Fort Myers Tour data

To: "Cox, Bradley J" <Bradley.Cox@integris-health.com>
Subject: Re: Fort Myers Tour data
From: Scott Troyer - DDR TestEng <stroyer@micron.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:04:20 -0700
Brad, its not the car that misclassed, its just Ian.  Perhaps he needs 
to be put
on the stock class exclusion list! ;-)

In seriousness though, this data makes me wonder about
the validity of the 83 mph  speed claim of the GT3.
I have yet to see how how this number was obtained.
I'm very courious as to where this number came from.

Scott
SS#71

Cox, Bradley J wrote:

>Just got a chance to download data from the Fort Myers Tour.
>Top speeds for runs were as follows:
>Sat #1  71.291 mph
>Sat #2   67.908
>Sat #3   66.202
>Sun #1   69.807
>Sun #2   72.957
>Sun #3   74.506
>(For you F500 folks, my top EGT readings were 1190 degrees.  More 
>typical average was about 1150 degrees.)
>For reference, other than a couple of F125 karts, I think my overall 
>times (FMod #196) were 2nd fastest, after the Porsche GT3. 
><<
>
>Those top speeds look quite reasonable to me for a top placed Fmod car.  
>
>Some of these questions may not have answers, but I'm just wondering... What 
>about the possibility that the "offending" GT3 has simply been mis-classed?  
>Is it ok for an ASP car to hit 83 mph sometimes?  How about some actual data 
>from other cars at the event?  It's nice to work with facts rather than 
>conjecture...  
>
>All these opinions about speed creep over the years... but the small amount of 
>actual empirical data provided in the discussion seems to indicate otherwise.  
>Can anyone provide evidence that there is an overall problem (beyond isolated 
>incidences which are a different sort of problem) with speed creep in Solo2?  
>And if so, are there increased accident claims as well?  What if there is 
>evidence to support that speeds have increased, but accidents have decreased?
>
>-Brad   




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