If 'Vintage Racing' were actually trying to replicate the real racing of
'back-in-the-day', Timing & Scoring would be a bunch of folks with analog
stop watches, paper & pencil.
The ones & zeros crowd slipped in there with ease and little objection.
Bill
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:24:20 -0400 "Henry Frye" <henry@henryfrye.com>
writes:
> As the prices of these things have been falling to levels that
> almost
> make the decision to buy a no-brainer, I had to ask myself...
>
> How far from the Vintage Spirit can we get? How ridiculous would
> the
> must-have dash mounted readout look in my VINTAGE race car?
>
> I am sure it would be a huge help seeing instant feedback on every
> lap,
> and this information should go far in improving lap times. Not to
> mention the value of the mapping so you can sit down after each
> session
> and see where you were on the track, where you screwed up and what
> line
> gave you the best exit speed. Let alone the value of the real time
> engine monitoring.
>
> It seems to me there is a faction of the Vintage crowd that is going
> to
> have a cow on this issue.
>
> Some day I will have one, probably sooner rather than later, but I
> am
> not going to take the grief of being one of the first!
>
> If Jack W cares to chime in on this, I would be interested in his
> opinion on how data acquisition fits in Vintage Racing.
>
>
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