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thrdeye wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 7:56 pm Sure I'm really curious to see it. I measured with Google maps, not solostorm data but I bet steve could tell us feet traveled.

FWIW, I would let this go but when we consider a 400 foot launch, middle of 3rd gear "slalom", and a pin cone in the same course a successful, fun, or balanced course design, something needs to change.

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Miata22 wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 7:16 pm
MARKP wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 6:45 pm :runs out of the woods, gas can in hand:

I wonder if anyone thinks my car is a smallish big car, or if a C5 Z06 is.

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Here are some dimensions I grabbed from Google for your entertainment...
2011 BMW M3 - 182" x 72"
2017 Camaro 1LE - 190" x 75"
1993 Camaro Z28 - 193" x 74"
2010 Shelby GT500 - 188" x 74"
2017 Shelby GT350 - 189" x 76"
2015 Dodge Challenger - 198" x 76"
C6 Z06 - 175" x 76"
C5 Z06 - 180" x 74"

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Thanks Mark now I have an excuse for sucking on Sunday. The car is too wide. JB I don’t want to hear about your wide car anymore. :P Lol we have video from Sunday maybe Jim can post one or two. I turned a 53.9 clean and a 53.6 dirty which were the downed cones rife put down at the finish I run over. I left at least a second on course with all the mistakes I made but I would have needed two seconds to meet ES pax. The soloms were good but the offsets hurt me. The 3780 lb car felt heavy between the transitions.
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John Brown wrote:My car is 82.5 in wide ..
Stock may be those listed.. :)
They are all stock widths. I'm sure my car is fatter with the big tires.

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I think Chris is referring to event 8 where a scion got 3rd and a es miata got 4th place and ahead of the gt500. The top 4 had 2 mustangs and a e street and a stx car in it.
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thrdeye wrote:Sure I'm really curious to see it. I measured with Google maps, not solostorm data but I bet steve could tell us feet traveled.

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My Solostorm backs up your Google estimate. ...~3400 feet (0.64 miles).

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If we had a .9 mile course that people were finishing at 53 seconds, that's roughly a 60 mph average. Given that we generally have a couple of 20 something mph digs, that is WAY too fast.
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Some other fun facts looking at my data...

• The lowest average speed in a section of the course (broken down by solostorm) was 37.9mph in the back turn around. This doesn't include the finish because I'm sure it captured me braking at the end of that and would skew the data

• The highest average speed in a section was 46.1mph. This was in the offset slalom coming to the finish.

• The lowest average throttle position in a section was 21.1% again in the back turn around

• The highest average throttle position was 36.2% which was coming out of the hard back turn

I know these are all subjective because of the way solostorm breaks the sections up and I wish I had other event data to look up but I'd just deleted everything off the tablet prior to Sunday to make room.

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I have ran courses where I hit the limiter in second gear several times and that is 84ish mph and the course wasn't too fast nor was it not safe, it was plenty safe. I am not saying all courses need to be like that either. I just DO NOT THINK IN ANY WAY THAT 60 mph average speed is too fast.
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If Steve's number of .64 tenth of a mile is correct then the average speed is 43.14 mph and that is using 53.4xx seconds as the time.
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jcox07 wrote: Thu Sep 27, 2018 6:02 am I have ran courses where I hit the limiter in second gear several times and that is 84ish mph and the course wasn't too fast nor was it not safe, it was plenty safe. I am not saying all courses need to be like that either. I just DO NOT THINK IN ANY WAY THAT 60 mph average speed is too fast.
I don't think we've ran a course with close to that average speed.
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Steve V...by section that's the areas between the dots on the SS map it generates right?

I still have some bms events in SS. If you can get this one to the cloud I'd love to take a look.

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Yes that's the areas that it generates. I'll try to upload it to the cloud tonight, if I remember how.
thrdeye wrote:Steve V...by section that's the areas between the dots on the SS map it generates right?

I still have some bms events in SS. If you can get this one to the cloud I'd love to take a look.

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Lets take some funds... buy a decent mild build SP car..OR, an STX car.. keep it shod with old tires.. and THAT becomes the PRO CLASS ...
no more complaining about courses... :lol:

maybe a lil more than kidding. :eating:
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I said 2 years ago that I was done running in pro and ran XP last year and I can say now I am DONE RUNNING PRO. I will run open ESP by myself or whoever happens to run in that class if anyone does.
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John Brown wrote: Thu Sep 27, 2018 7:50 am Lets take some funds... buy a decent mild build SP car..OR, an STX car.. keep it shod with old tires.. and THAT becomes the PRO CLASS ...
no more complaining about courses... :lol:

maybe a lil more than kidding. :eating:
C5 Corvette would be a good one or 350Z. Give em a mild STU prep....

Could be cool.

This year's pro champ can purchase the car with all of their winnings. :D
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