jrgordonsenior wrote:Hey Kary,
I little off topic but.....check out this add on Rennlist. For a minute I thought you were selling that car. Look where it is in the photo compared to your avatar pic....
http://mall.rennlist.com/scripts/featur ... =retrieval
JRG
Otto wrote:A way to evaluate how reasonable are the current BRI indexes for each class relative to another is to calculate what time would have been required for the winner of that class to equal the performance of the BRI winner. I have taken a few classes that have been won by well prepared cars and driven well. Of course, to say "driven well" is a matter of opinion but you can be the judge. I used this Fontana event results and compared several drivers/classes with Roland's performance by dividing Roland's corrected time of 119.39 by the respective BRI index for each class considered. I then subtracted the resulting time required to equal Roland from the actual time for each class winner, and it looks as follows:
JP (me) to equal Roland would have needed to drive 4.28 seconds faster than I did (impossible for me)
KP (Jad) 2.60 seconds faster to equal Roland
KI (Jack) 1.22 seconds faster to equal Roland
MI (Kary) 5.22 seconds faster to equal Roland
MS (Bernie) 3.66 seconds faster to equal Roland
You be the judge. Is Roland so good that he can beat all those drivers and cars by that much or is the AM BRI index factor for the class somewhat lenient relative to each of the respective classes shown? Can each of you drivers named gone that much faster? Above type of analysis can also serve to compare the classes shown with each other.
From my standpoint I say that I should have driven faster than I did (up to 1 sec) to reach my potential but 4.28 sec faster is a bit too much to expect from a JP car. Fontana is an interesting track to use for a comparison because it has both a relatively tight infield and long "straight", which somewhat balances "handling" and "horsepower" cars, as Steve commented.
kary wrote:Curt, Dan,
Sorry, I was merely trying to make a point about the whole BRI and classifications. While my car may have some nice items, Rolands 993 motor in a lighter car is the real issue. Wait unitl I lighten mine up more and am forced into your class because of points
Curt wrote:kary wrote:Curt, Dan,
Sorry, I was merely trying to make a point about the whole BRI and classifications. While my car may have some nice items, Rolands 993 motor in a lighter car is the real issue. Wait unitl I lighten mine up more and am forced into your class because of points
Kary,
Our point is that your 993 will never be in AM. It's not possible, I think you go to KM next, and then AR. Thank goodness for that. It's not that we don't want you hanging around our class...... well, actually, it is You're too fast!
kary wrote:Yes, now that i look at it more carefully I think you are right, I am forced into KM then AR....ok, who are the KM boys?
bobbrand wrote:kary wrote:Yes, now that i look at it more carefully I think you are right, I am forced into KM then AR....ok, who are the KM boys?
That would be Bill Dawson, but I think first you have to get ahead of Jack in KI.
Hmmm. Interestingly, Bill has one of those old torsion bar cars, but is on the new-car progression due to how turbos are classed.
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