It took a bit for it to take a stance of sorts. I really did find it a bit too complimentary, too eager to please.
In absolute terms there is only one correct answer, what is faster? and do that, then.
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Don’t worry @Terence_Dove you are waaaay better at this than AI! It is useful tho.
Firstly we had some new faces show up like Shiva and Michael and Adi!
We had a field of 12 teams of 2. We did 5 stops for the 2hrs: 4 30s stops and 1 2:00 fuel and kart switch stop (your discretion as to timing).
Cruz and I had a medium kart an drove th wheels off it. Personally I felt I drove well and charged pretty good. I thought Cruz did a bang-up job for his first race there and his first time going reverse.
I was overall faster and more consistent but Cruz demonstrated that he has the pace by actually beating me for the best lap with a 22.001 to my 22.015!
However, unsurprisingly given my gazillion laps, my average was much higher. But that’s just track knowledge and refinement via laps.
Cruz raced well and didn’t seem to be hindered much in traffic and was confident/competent/reliable. His “range” was wider than mine but plenty tight given his laptime. 10/10 would race again!
Adi managed to plow into Michael in practice which is kind of funny since they were teammates! I share in this blame as I have been advising Adi.
I told him t1 is flat, but Micheal didn’t get the memo and chaos ensued! No harm done, however, and lessons were learned about drafting and passing.
I had one atypical incident where I got sick of someone’s aggressive driving and felt like re-educating them a tad. I reinforced the negative consequences of brute forcing passes. Since I was in meh kart, I was not too concerned about finish position. Could we have finished podium? Maybe, but not with a deliberate race slow down, that’s for sure!
There was a red in one of Cruz’s heats but the fella was ok and his team charged back up to finish 7th which was a nice accomplishment for them!
We raced hard and well, mostly, and had a good time, mostly. I think Matt, his folks, and the gang did a gr8 job as usual! Thank you!
Thanks to Cruz and the new folks as well for coming to check out our races!
@tjkoyen I thought of you when I saw this comment…
And my response…
This could be a rentals thing. The seat is not the same in terms of “suspension” in that it is not fitted and tight. It also rises way higher. The seat is less of a “structural” component relative to the chassis because you have less leverage an less impact trying to push on wheel to jam body into kart frame and influence.
When I influence kart frame it’s typically a full body wedge that lifts my butt out of the seat and I am applying big pressure across the kart from pedal to top of seat back. Imagine a big diagonal wedge with butt lifted.
I’d like to say that this quote is misunderstood, that it’s taken out of context… but it turns out it came out of him after he punted Prost and was clearly bullshit for the stewards. I do punt outrageously disrespectful drivers as well so I know the feeling.
Roughly a year after the incident, Senna admitted to lying about the circumstances and acknowledged the crash was an intentional move to settle a dispute regarding the previous year’s championship.
In any case, I wonder if he had any inkling of how his words would confuse multiple generations of noob racers.
Once again we race and once again I thought it was on Sunday not Saturday. I got a call from Randall at 8:30 asking where are you and are you planning on showing up? Oops!
I jumped in the car and sped over, and jumped in last place to start, and proceeded to do OK, I thought. I am a bit confused in that my position (p9) seems a bit sus in that other than getting passed a couple times, I mostly gained ground. My actual lap count appears to be off by a lap, where the race ends on my white flag lap, oddly. I also appear to be a large number of laps off the leader that didn’t make any sense either since he did not lap me 8 times.
In any case, despite the wonkiness it was a good race and I had a couple good karts. I did have one stinker that died on me, however. All in a days work tho, when it comes to rental racing.
We have another Ironman coming up in June and then the 4 hours in July. More to come!
