They did it to Randy last year at Nasa Nationals in his JCW Challenge car. They bumped him to PTB due to Tq.
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Me and Ian always have sensible conversations / discussions. He is a canny racer and I find it fascintaing that they kick him for finding a winning combo and he still goes back for more
Obviously I would love to see him battling it out on the same tracks with Dez in the ABF Mini as this would fuel them to go faster and come up with new ideas to make there cars faster.
The UK Time Attack wil see the biggest field of Mini's this weekend with at least 5 entered, and yes that includes our own drag/street Mini with a driver who made his first track laps last Tuesday.
What I cant understand is how I've got slammed on every forum about how a Mini isnt a drag car but these same people dont enter / show up at these events / gatherings, I really dont understand it
Surely these events no matter where they are in the USA are ideal events for the Mini community to turn up so you can race / show / banter and have fun with your Mini's. Its not all about being Top Dog unless you're highly competitive, it should be about personal acheivement and New Personal Bests NPB at that particular track. -
yeah, the best form of flattery in racing is getting rules written for you. Now The rules changes last year took power away from me, not ultimate power on the dyno but lossing the alcohol injection ment I couldn't keep the hp for more then a couple of corners before the heat started to pull it back. So they took power, took tire away, and gave extra points for my shocks which essentially moved me to TTB in a slower car. Since I would have won TTB as well at nationals you can see the logic behind it.
In SCCA World Challenge they give the winners "rewards weight". Win a race... you get 50 extra lbs for the next race. Win 2 in a row they slow you down more. It's part of racing. The real winners figure out how to win anyway.
We could have probably done a couple small things in TTB, run the TTC power level to open up points for wider tires and such and come up with a way of cooling the intake charge but Jan called me in January and bascially said lets go really fast.
Our goal this weekend was to monitor water temps, monitor intake temps, make sure the car runs in the opperating temp we wanted. Take it easy on the car and make sure everything works correctly with the belt. Play with the AWESOME group 4 stuff and play with the handling from the added tq. Water temps were lower then expected...
.... Intake temps were lower then expected and the belt stayed on perfectly .... We had new issues show up like the brake pedal becoming like a kitchen sink sponge. We didn't win, but we didn't expect to. But we went faster by a fair amount and we know there is a lot more time in the car.
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The splitter not only causes front down force but accelerates the air up, through the grill ( forcing air through the cooler) and over the car
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Great job Ian explaining the classes to all and how your car has changed over the year. I heard from Jan about the G4 aero stuff helping the car. Get rid of the couple of problems and it will be interesting how the car responds. Just wait till fall comes around when all the testing is done. CAN'T WAIT
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