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1. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: "Steve Ashcraft" <ashcraft2@home.com>; Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:49:48 -0400; This might be an interesting discussion: Do you launch harder at a ProSolo event than at a Divisional? I launch the same but then again I drive a 1994 Miata. Steve from; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00346.html (9,049 bytes)
2. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: "David Hawkins" <otgrouch@twosrus.com>; Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:56:37 -0500; Very few of the NTs or divisionals I have attended had a drag style start (straight line to the first technical part). Most Solo II courses have a start followed by a rather sharp turn to discourage; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00348.html (8,057 bytes)
3. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: "Steven N. Burkett" <sburkett@ooi.com>; Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:32:43 -0500 (CDT); Can someone explain this to me? I realize that most non-pro courses start out this way, but how does this discourage a drag launch? To my inexperienced mind, faster is faster. If you're *serious* abo; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00356.html (8,421 bytes)
4. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: JTB713@aol.com; Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 18:43:16 EDT; << > Very few of the NTs or divisionals I have attended had a drag style Can someone explain this to me? I realize that most non-pro courses start out this way, but how does this discourage a drag la; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00359.html (8,459 bytes)
5. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: adozzell@sc9.intel.com (TONY OZZELLO P802 AWS); Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 15:48:36 -0700; Jim replied: On many if not most Solo 2 style courses, the start lights are after the hard corner. So it doesn't matter how fast you start, but what speed you are carrying wen you cross the start lig; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00361.html (9,300 bytes)
6. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: "Kevin Stevens" <kevin_stevens@hotmail.com>; Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 16:11:01 PDT; If the course begins with a 30 foot straight, then a square 90 turn with minimum course width, then the start lights 10 feet further on: You can begin your Pro-style launch, shut the car down abruptl; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00363.html (10,252 bytes)
7. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: JTB713@aol.com; Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 20:52:29 EDT; The point is to start as hard as you can. Whatever makes sense. Certainly if there is a 90 degree turn 10 ft from the start, a true Pro start won't work. That said' if you can get to 2nd (or a least; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00371.html (8,369 bytes)
8. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: "Steve Ashcraft" <ashcraft2@home.com>; Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:05:42 -0400; I'm still confused (but that's my usual state of mind). I still don't understand why you wouldn't still launch hard if for no other reason than to warm up the rear tires. I'm not sure how you could e; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00372.html (9,033 bytes)
9. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: Randy Chase <randyc2@home.com>; Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 18:17:55 -0700; Consider this. Start line....go straight 40 feet, hard turn, then lights. The turn is sharp enough that more acceleration prior to it will only mean you need to be on your brakes more. As long as the; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00373.html (8,856 bytes)
10. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: Paul Cezanne <oblique@alum.mit.edu>; Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:17:59 -0400; I posted this graphic last time we had this discussion... See http://www.customline.com/cones.gif for such a start. Admitedly, this is extreme, but it can be done. This of course ignores the "warming; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00381.html (8,759 bytes)
11. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: "Scot Zediker" <roadsterboy@earthlink.net>; Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 22:11:31 -0700; Most non-Pro courses I run usually have a turn between the start line and the timing lights. For me, it usually isn't worth it to launch hard, then slam on the brakes to negotiate the turn before the; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00385.html (9,497 bytes)
12. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: "Steven T. Ekstrand" <cyberlaw@earthlink.net>; Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 22:46:20 -0700; Fast in...Slow out... Think late apex. On this style of Solo2 start, the lights are usually just past the apex of a short radius turn. You need to set up your entry to maximize your speed on exit. Th; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00386.html (11,320 bytes)
13. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>; Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 12:19:08 -0500; Yes, but the first few feet are not timed. In autocross, the time starts when you cross the start line, wherever the organizers put the timing light. This can be placed so that the violence level of; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00400.html (9,715 bytes)
14. Re: ProSolo questions and launching (score: 1): Author: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>; Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 01:47:13 -0500; The point being that IF you have to do ANY braking, or even any lifting of the power pedal, before the start lights, THEN your launch was harder than it needed to be. Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota; /html/autox/2000-07/msg00420.html (8,381 bytes)

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