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jcox07 wrote: Thu Sep 27, 2018 6:02 am I just DO NOT THINK IN ANY WAY THAT 60 mph average speed is too fast.
Dude. The average speed of a Porsche Turbo 996 around Atlanta Motorsports Park is something like 75-80 MPH.

A 60 mph AVERAGE would be way outside of autocross rules for both course and safety.
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I must have missed that event too... I cant imagine an A-X course that "averages" 60mph... unless there were zero sub 40mph turns..

Lets re-check that math. can we?
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My comment was based off this...
jcox07 wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 5:17 pm The distance and time tells you that it was tight, we have run .8 tenths and .9 tenths of a mile in the same time as this one 52 seconds.
.9 miles / 52 seconds = .0173 miles per second x 3600 seconds/hr = 62.30 mph

A course of .8 miles same time would give 55.4 mph, which is probably closer to more realistic, and maybe on the borderline too fast side, IMO.
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MARKP wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 6:45 pm
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Speaking of inputs, yall should put a camera on James feet while he's driving a vette.......
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thrdeye wrote: Thu Sep 27, 2018 8:18 am
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

This would be cool, but how in the world would we get all our runs done efficiently? Also, there's like a spec class in autox now or something :lol:

Speaking of SSC, I drove Mark's(thanks again!!) car on one of my spare runs after the M3 fuel starved on James 3rd run. It had surprisingly less power than I expected. I kinda want to try a STX trim frsbrz though.
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STX car is way better. Flatter powerband and the tires keep you in the powerband WAY better. If I launch where the STX folks launch, I bog. I hopped in Ray's car and was like :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: .
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...and the SSC car accelerates like an F1 car compared to the Spyder. At least people riding with me no longer to tell me to floor it when I have it floored. :lol:
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STX FRS is one of the best cars I've driven.
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FYI, general flow of whatever national course this was puts it at about 3700 feet.
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MT '16 maybe?
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flier129 wrote: Thu Sep 27, 2018 9:23 am

This would be cool, but how in the world would we get all our runs done efficiently?
It's pro class. Get it done in ONE run :D
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It may be the match tour 2018 or it is day 2 of the champ tour 2018.
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thrdeye wrote: Thu Sep 27, 2018 7:36 am 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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