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Originally Posted by sperry
I think the race is the classic battle of power vs. handling... which really boils down to "if the powerful car is in front, the nimble car will lose". Hell, even if the powerful car is in back, it's always easier to just blast by on the straights than it is to make a hard pass in the corners.
My guess is that on any other track, that S2000 is the faster car (maybe even on this course as long as the S2000 isn't forced to follow the L in the corners). But in a race situation, the L is easily the better car for winning with. It's the same thing all the old Porsches used to do to the fields of other better handling cars... slow-in, fast-out made them impossible to pass unless you could get by their blocking under braking.
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Well, to the car's credit, that was THE first hotlap I'd ever driven on the Hankook 91 tire. It has so much more grip than the BFG R1 that I left a lot of time on the track.
Second, the GST Impreza never blocked the S2000. There was one place where Tyler got really close, but it turns out that he had a braking issue at that corner and just about damned near hit me accidentally. Other than that, there was no interference between the cars.
Finally, in the time attack, on the 3rd hotlap I've ever turned on the Hankooks, our laptime was over 3 seconds faster than the S2000.
Considering the car wasn't set up for those tires and I had no practice time on those tires, there is quite a bit left in the car.
Gary
Sheehan Motor Racing
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