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Re: Brakes at Laguna (was: c2 automotive)

To: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>
Subject: Re: Brakes at Laguna (was: c2 automotive)
From: "Michael R. Clements" <mrc01@flash.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:53:23 -0800
With a sufficiently underpowered car, I suppose you could take
all the turns flat out.

"Kelly, Katie" wrote:
> 
> You're all a bunch of pansies. If you line it up right, you can take Turn 10
> flat out.
> 
> Wimps.
> 
> Katie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larrybsp@aol.com [mailto:Larrybsp@aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 3:16 PM
> To: cmerritt@ati.com
> Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Brakes at Laguna (was: c2 automotive)
> 
> from:larrybsp@aol.com (Larry Stark)
> 
>           I must really be missing something here. Turn 10 at Laguna scares
> the hell
> out of me more than any other turn on the track. Maybe its the speed I carry
> 
> into the corner in my race prepped Corvette. I come into 10 somewhere
> between
> 100 to 110 mph in 4th. I have to brake hard before the entry to get through
> 10 and half the time I'm in the dirt on the exit. 10 is pretty narrow for
> the
> speed of entry. I've walked the track and 10 is probably an 80 degree corner
> 
> after the changes made to open up 11. I also can't believe 10 is on camber.
> >From ground level it doesn't look it. I get no understeer anywhere at Laguna
> 
> except at 10. I'd love to hear the comments of other drivers with 3500#
> cars
> trying to get through 10. I'm always open to learning a new trick or two.
> Any
> suggestions? TIA.
> 
>                                                                Larry
> 
> In a message dated 11/27/00 2:13:51 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> cmerritt@ati.com writes:
> 
> << ubj:  RE: Brakes at Laguna (was: c2 automotive)
>  Date:  11/27/00 2:13:51 PM Pacific Standard Time
>  From:  cmerritt@ati.com (Carl Merritt)
>  Sender:    owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
>  To:    navid@interwoven.com ('navid@interwoven.com'), pnc1@earthlink.net
> (Derek Butts), navidk@home.com, ba-autox@autox.team.net
> 
>  > 5) Don't brake too much in 10.  It's not as bad as you think.  It's an
>  > optical illusion. :)
> 
>  That row of tires in front of the wall in front of the pit lane all of 10
>  feet from the edge of the pavement at the exit of 10 is NOT an optical
>  illusion!  =P

-- 
Michael R. Clements
mrc01@flash.net
A government big enough to give you everything you want
is also big enough to take away everything you have.

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