[Shotimes] Re: blackhawk/gear

[Ron Porter]

The only time I used 2nd (and that was may 50% of the time) was out of turn
7, to give me a bit more hitting the long straight.  The rest of the time I
was in 3rd. The only places that 3rd gear was a bit doggy was coming out of
Turn 1 and Turn 7.

I wonder how much it really matters for lap times, though, as I feel that I
do smoother corners when I don't have to shift. In going around with Tim
Pavlik, he said he always runs Blackhawk purely in 3rd gear, and this is
with his basically stock '91+ (only 73mm C&L and a Borla, which keeps him in
a stock class).

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Mark Nunnally
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:48 AM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: [Shotimes] Re: blackhawk/gear


>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
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