"Dave Morton" <Lt4Z51@USWest.net> writes:
<< >
> Ok, whatever you say!!! But in my opinion you have it backwards. Its 90%
> car preparation and 10% driver. Good coaching just >works to better the 10%
You have got to be kidding.........
Dave
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Owen Writes:
Actually I think he was being nice. Take any competative professional driving
sport. You know the ones were you really have to qualify by showing proper lap
times, rather than having the appropriate event once during the year. Say, F1
(or Indy, or heads up drag racing or, or, or)
Take a random, team. Driver A, the star, Driver B, the teammate. Driver A can
hop in B's car and turn a lap that is 2 seconds faster on a 1:20 lap. 2
seconds out of 80. All day in racing terms. It's 2.5%. At the highest levels
of competition the driver is about 2.5% and the car is about 97.5%. This
appears to be true at the highest levels of almost any driving sport. It's
only at the lowest levels (ie novices) where the ratio is really in favor of
the driver (and even then it almost never gets to less than 60%/40% except in
really rare instances).
I guess what the point is, a 2% change to someone at the top of a sport is all
day, a 2% change at the bottom is nothing. $$$ can in essence buy a win in
Topeka if you are one of those drivers top drivers, becuase only the tiniest of
margins seperates many of the top drivers. But there is no way in hell it can
buy ultimate competance in driving.
Expensive shocks (and all other mods for that reason) can allow radical changes
in postion at the highest leves, and does relatively little for the less gifted
drivers.
O
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