Bob Gagnon wrote:That video is great Dan.
I don't know how you did shifted so smoothly with that cast on, particularly the shift to 3rd in the slalom.
Thanks, Bob. Many Instructors I had in the past (Grosekemper being one of them) kept saying you only need 3 fingers to shift smoothly. Well the video kinda proves that, since I only had 3 fingers to work with! The biggest challenge was down-shifting to 2nd. I pretty-much used 2nd gear for the whole rest of the track, high rev's notwithstanding.
It looks like you are flat out from the 3rd slalom cone through the right hand sweeper and still manage to keep the car to the right for entry to the left hander at the end of the sweeper.
I could never get the sweeper speed adjusted correctly so I didn't drift out to much to the left side of the track and thus screwed up the entry to that left hander.
Yes, I was flat-out in 3rd gear there. I think Steve is right: the power/weight/stick quotient in my SC is perfect for wide-open throttle sweepers like that one. More power or torque and I'm sure I would have drifted too far to the left ... out of the good line.
Steve: thanks for the compliments. The cast came off at 11:30 today, so I now have no excuses.

I'll just have to work harder at finding that half-second or so you have on me. (Ha!

Who am I kiddin'.) Steve, you should bring out the cab. It's a great benchmark for the rest of us to try and achieve. Just get some 225 RA-1's like the rest of us, will ya?
Thanks for the fun, all!
Dan Chambers"It's
just a "well prepared" street car ... or a very, very well-mannered track car."

1983 SC #91 3.6L, "Black Pearl" Livery
1987 944 (gone but not forgotten)