dg50@daimlerchrysler.com wrote:
>
> Roger (The Famous) Johnson wrote:
>
> > B.) Never has this been more evident than in G/S at Topeka this
> > year: Most have accepted the late Type "R" classification because one
> > didn't win!
>
> Nahhh. Some of us with a dog in the hunt at the time accepted the Type R in
> Denver when we saw what was required to make one go fast, namely,
> downshifting every time the car turned more than a few degrees.
>
> I'm still amazed that ol' Bob E. was able to make that many shifts in such
> a short period of time without blowing one.
>
> Any car that makes you work that hard just ain't an overdog.
Still. But for a single cone each for both Neal and Bob, they would have
taken 1st and 2nd. Yeah, yeah, I know, "cones count". But consider how
comparatively little time Neal and Bob have actually had to set these
cars up for autox and how little seat time they had as well. Yes, Neal
and Bob are both extremely talented drivers, and I don't mean to slight
them in the least. But I don't think that we've seen the potential of a
G-Stock Type-R yet.
I personally don't feel that the issue of the Type R is an issue about
overdog or not, it's an issue about the late classing of the car. But I
do feel that the Type R is possibly missclassed. E-Stock seems to me to
be more appropriate.
> What GS taught me this year was just how much the Stock classes resemble
> (suprise!) herds of sheep. A4 wins out west, everyone wants an A4. We win
> in the east, everyone wants a Talon. Bob gets a fast run in a Type R on his
> 14th run in Denver, everyone wants a Type R. And yet the funny thing is
> that at Nationals, on courses were the launch isn't such a factor, the top
> of the class was a pretty even mix of Talons, A4s, Type Rs, and even MX6s.
>
> > Do you really think that the potential of either the Acura or the BG was
> > realized in such a short time??
>
> Or the A4? Or the Talon? Hell, we were running stock shocks last year,
> there's still lots of tuning to be done for GS Talons.
Well, I believe Mark was running on custom Konis. Yes, there's more
tuning to be done for most of the new G-Stock Blood.
-Josh2
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