ITB drivers... LRP in June has become a BIG race!

lateapex911 said:
$5 bucks and you wear a big enough to read drivers suit patch that says, "Jake was right, and is a great guy" says you're wrong, it will be more than that.
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Your probably right but I will wear the patch for Saturday if I am wrong. : ) now I really need to get my partners to push hard!

Stephen
 
TimM ITB said:
we are now up to 19 !!

I am going to try and recruit a couple more this week!

WOOHOO!!
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Tim- Get your bro to bring out the Audi!

Speaking of Audi's where is Steve and Pam??? Humm that would be fun to see them again on the track :)

As for oldies... Get Scott Carlson back and Jim M. with his killer Opal GT!

Raymond "Now that I have my own house where Stephen can't sabotage my car I am hoping to finish... And I am trying to remember the last time you were ahead of me when I broke... Maybe we need it to rain so I can really embarass you!" Blethen
 
I know a bunch of us would love to come up there for this race. You guys are gonna have a blast!!! Any of you guys coming to NJ when MARRS is up there? Would be cool to try and reproduce those numbers at thunderbolt or lightning.
 
TimM ITB said:
we are now up to 19 !!

I am going to try and recruit a couple more this week!

WOOHOO!!
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Tim: This is great news! Good news is that I am planning on being at LRP on Friday, as I will be back east that week. Bad news is that I just brought in the tow van in for a new water pump, so that eats up gas and entry money. :(

See you up there!

BTW, the ITB count for the IT Spectacular in only 3 so far. Hope you guys can make it.
 
Well I will say it... Jake you were right!

We did not get 10 cars within .5 sec. But it was a big close field! Rick and I got in the 3's but no track record and 11 other ITB cars all within 1 second of eachother! Really great racing and we ended up with 16 cars and almost any of us could have won... first time I can remember thinking a top ten was my goal! The GLEN in July is the next BIG one. 9 are already registered and again its a fast fast group.

I downloaded my video of my start of race one and when I can steal some internet from a friend I will post it ( I use my phone normally) the start is a must see start passing around 10 cars by turn 1 and going from almost last to 2nd in a matter of a few laps! I was on that mission to beat Raymond... who started pole.

Stephen

PS: not sure if anyone noticed but earlier this year I gave my car to Tim Dugan because I never thought his car would be fast and I felt bad for him.... on used rubber he was very fast in my car and I decided he will now have to rent it : ) We went to LRP and he was taking his car. I told him you need stiffer springs and a quaffe... springs got delivered to LRP after qualifying and he went from a 1:07 on Friday to a 1:04 on Saturday... needless to say I may stop suggesting things! I never expected springs alone could be almost 3 seconds a lap!
 
How did the autocross tires on the Audi rears work out?

Can't wait for the Glen and will be ordering some Dirt Stockers just in case. :D
 
gran racing said:
How did the autocross tires on the Audi rears work out?
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Well look at my lap times compaired to Raymond's. : D It can't be all the driver!

Seriously though Raymond and I have always done strange things with tires and I feel like it was better than ever. I think to many people with front wheel drive cars think that the back just follows around but Ihave different ideas. IMHO loose is only fast if you have everything out of the front that you can get. I can't say if it was definetly faster or not since I did not do any back to back tests. However for my car they did get better temps and pressures and more importantly they felt better. I could change some suspension componants to get the same temps and pressures but I am sold on this setup for now. My concern is that they will probably have less heat cycles before they turn into stones.

Stephen
 
StephenB said:
. I think to many people with front wheel drive cars think that the back just follows around but Ihave different ideas. IMHO loose is only fast if you have everything out of the front that you can get.
Stephen
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I am sooooo with you on this one Stephen. It makes no sense to put narrow tires or old tires on the back to make it rotate UNLESS you can't get the car to neutral handling with set-up. Putting narrow or old on the back is gonna make you slower than using all four the same size and age. Of course, it's easy for me to say since I can dial in waaay more over steer than I can handle. :D
 
StephenB said:
Well look at my lap times compaired to Raymond's. : D It can't be all the driver!

Seriously though Raymond and I have always done strange things with tires and I feel like it was better than ever. I think to many people with front wheel drive cars think that the back just follows around but Ihave different ideas. IMHO loose is only fast if you have everything out of the front that you can get. I can't say if it was definetly faster or not since I did not do any back to back tests. However for my car they did get better temps and pressures and more importantly they felt better. I could change some suspension componants to get the same temps and pressures but I am sold on this setup for now. My concern is that they will probably have less heat cycles before they turn into stones.

Stephen
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do you think some of it is confidence that the car will be more catchable with the A/X tires in the back?
 
i am impressed that the ax tires would last. looking at my lap times my car dropped off like a brick after the 11th lap in both races using hankooks
 
Tom-

I don't think the ax tires gave Stephen more confidence... We have the cars very well dialed in so confidence is not an issue, I think they (the tires) just might be faster. I can remember running back to back sessions at lime rock with old vs new tires in the back and it being faster. On our cars the rear barely comes up to temp, with the ax tires it came up much better!

Dave- I agree he should have run ax tires on the front, maybe thy would have worn out and given me a chance! Lol

great weekend for most, hope Tim Mullen gets things back together soon. I got a bump by someone Pushing in my right rear and putting me back in the field near the begining. I was hoping to have a rematch with tim after the AM qualifying and just as I caught him Nat spun Right infront of us leaving tim noplace to go but off track to the outside of Big Bend... I took the inside and was able to get past but he was not as fortunate :(. Fustrating I am sure as he was super fast and lost it all no fault of his own.

Tim Dugan also came out of nowhere and proved he is a contender with the golf!!!

Raymond

Raymond
 
I think i can officialy say that was the best time ive had with my clothing on. Thanks to great teachers and great advice from all i had a race to remember!! Run it wide open till it you see god than break! Hope to do well at nhms agains nat who is always fast. Ok is anybody else gonna show up or it gonna be a 1 2 finish at new hampshire
 
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