gkull
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During the last SCCA road racing event I was testing lots of over the winter changes. The best thing you can do in our old vettes is to build them to give you the driver confidence.
Right at the end of the race I had my friend in his GT1 1972 vette behind me. I was trying to brake later and later on each turn.
traveling down through the S's at @120 mph I totally missed the brake point. I had all four tires locked up because there was no way that i could make the 40 mph turn. The car is airborne skipping off the pavement into the gravel traps.
"When in a spin both feet in!" I kept the motor running and drove right back to the edge of the track to see where the following cars were. I was getting gassed by all the tire smoke filling the car. I took off slow and stayed out of the race line because the tires are just embedded with rocks. You kind of look over the gauges to see if everything is alright. I did not know that i had broken the front end fiber glass and aluminum radiator ducking. That is what you will hear flapping against the pavement.
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Right at the end of the race I had my friend in his GT1 1972 vette behind me. I was trying to brake later and later on each turn.
traveling down through the S's at @120 mph I totally missed the brake point. I had all four tires locked up because there was no way that i could make the 40 mph turn. The car is airborne skipping off the pavement into the gravel traps.
"When in a spin both feet in!" I kept the motor running and drove right back to the edge of the track to see where the following cars were. I was getting gassed by all the tire smoke filling the car. I took off slow and stayed out of the race line because the tires are just embedded with rocks. You kind of look over the gauges to see if everything is alright. I did not know that i had broken the front end fiber glass and aluminum radiator ducking. That is what you will hear flapping against the pavement.
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