[Shotimes] Re: blackhawk/gear

[Mark Nunnally]

>Kirk asked me
> when we were at Blackhawk what gear I was running, I replied 2nd thru some
> of the turns he was listening at. 2nd @ 7000 for about 1/4 of the course,
> and I routinely am up there in day to day driving.

I meant to ask some folks about that, if they used 2nd gear much.  Looking
back at the video's I wonder if I could have tried 2nd on the backsight
"tight" part of the course.  Don't think I dropped below 3800 rpm or so in
3rd  much though, and the 3.2L makes pretty good torque from there so I just
ran the whole course in 3rd with 4th on the front stretch for a brief stint

anybody else used 2nd gear much?  I suppose tires makes a difference, as a
track tire'd car is  gonna have a bit more corner speed (keep the mph/rpms
wound up a little higher)

mark