Hey Kirk -
You should take a look at the event results for the last regular
season. If you compare times between Katie in her slow Miata and all of
ESP, she would have placed first or second in every event that she
ran. So, either we were really slow last year, or that Miata is pretty
darn fast....
Jim
At 02:59 PM 1/5/2001 -0800, Kirk Meline wrote:
>Katie
>
>You really shouldn't give up the Miata because of one race. There is always
>a faster car out there so why worry about it. It looked like your were
>having just as much fun in the Miata. Just not as fast. The problem with
>my class is that almost all the cars are different. I can't really compare
>myself to anyone else on a driver skill level. I think your class is
>perfect for learning how to drive better not just going fast.
>
>Kirk
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kelly, Katie [mailto:kkelly@spss.com]
>Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 2:44 PM
>To: 'Kirk Meline'; 'Kit Wetzler'
>Cc: 'jes@rx7.org'; ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: Koni shock question
>
>
>I think you've figured it out. I've retired Lucy, Kirk. BS is like a spec
>class. All the cars are pretty much the same. It's all about the driver. In
>'99, all I could muster was 5th place at Nationals, out of 51. Not very good
>results, I think you'll agree. It's just too embarassing, so I thought I'd
>switch to a BMW where you don't have to know how to drive to go fast.
>
>Peace,
>Katie
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kirk Meline [mailto:KMeline@iscribe.com]
>Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 2:29 PM
>To: 'Kelly, Katie'; 'Kit Wetzler'; Kirk Meline
>Cc: 'jes@rx7.org'; ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: Koni shock question
>
>
>Katie
>
>Thanks for sending me another excuse to put in my book. But it just came
>down to Jim having the better more expensive car. Oh well. By the way when
>is the miata coming back out to play?
>Throwing... with a big ol' fat grin...
>
>
>Kirk
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kelly, Katie [mailto:kkelly@spss.com]
>Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 11:39 AM
>To: 'Kit Wetzler'; Kirk Meline
>Cc: 'jes@rx7.org'; ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: Koni shock question
>
>
>Kirk Meline writes...
>
> > Why don't you just buy some Tokico's and not worry about breaking,
>screwing
> > with the settings, leaks, etc? Those Konis always seem to be breaking.
> > Just my observation.
>
>You would have probably been a lot faster if you ran Konis.
>
>Ducking... with a big ol' fat grin...
>
>Katie
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