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KTL · 11th June 2007, 22:39

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Originally Posted by blackbenzz

Exactly my point. The races are bs. How is a car that runs mid to low 11's and traps 123+mph going to lose to a car that runs mid to low 12's @ 117ish? Doesnt make any sense.

I have one possible expanation on that fenomena.

Lets say we have a car that is very quick out from the box, like a 4WD, and it grabbes it's 1 second advantage in the first few meters directly from the start, compared to a 1 second slower RWD car.

If we now let these two cars start beside each others in an rolling start from say 30 MPH. The 4WD suddenly have lost it's advantage of 1 second when it can't use it's amazing kangoroo starts. So with a rolling start you shouldn't be too suprised if the slower RWD car hit the finnish line first.

In fact, it can even be with a lover trap speed than the chasing 4WD, because if the RWD car is quicker in the early part of the run, it can leave the 4WD behind. And then the 4WD perhaps starts to catch up towards the end of the run, which means that it could reach a higher speed but still not able to reach the other car in distance before the race is over.

This was just a hypothetic example, but oftenly these things happens in real life.

KTL

Mr. Vroom · 11th June 2007, 22:48

Ok Gustav, before we get buried in datapoints, put up a vid(or two) whydontcha??? This thread has 14k hits, stop the tease, puleeze!

JIDEX · 11th June 2007, 22:55

Gustav..Kees and all the others involved in putting this together is say
-congratulations
-job well done and executed
-Thanks for putting in the time required for this level of co-ordination and execution

This is truly amazing.
No arm chair generals at this board

Having run with some highly modded GT2's and raced a carrera Gt I know that you brought the cream of the crop.
Having a modded supra at an event like this speak volumes to your committment to setting up some major big boy races.That's a car not to be trifled with

Congrats

allanlambo · 11th June 2007, 23:27

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Originally Posted by KTL

Nothing happened with it. Or what do you think of?

I didn't measure the SLR, I asked the owners about it but they decided not to.

KTL

No I mean what happened when it raced other cars.

blackbenzz · 11th June 2007, 23:36

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Originally Posted by JIDEX

Having a modded supra at an event like this speak volumes to your committment to setting up some major big boy races.That's a car not to be trifled with

I agree that supra's are very fast when modded properly, ESPECIALLY from a roll, but this one is by no means a big boy supra. It only has 650hp!

kees · 11th June 2007, 23:43

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Originally Posted by JIDEX

Gustav..Kees and all the others involved in putting this together is say
-congratulations
-job well done and executed
-Thanks for putting in the time required for this level of co-ordination and execution

All credit goes to Gustav - he's the one who totally coordinated this event with the assistance of a select number of others.

Also there are a number of people behind the screens that have done a lot of the invisible thankless work - such as camara guys & photographers. And of course all the car owners including RussRamz who both drove a highly impressive distance to attend.

I'm just one of the very few lucky people that were able to physically attend and enjoy the fruits of their hard work up close.

Gustav · 11th June 2007, 23:46

Very true. Mr Janne has been highly involved as well as also in fact Congaman with friends. Thanks RussRamz for coming to Sweden!

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Originally Posted by kees

All credit goes to Gustav - he's the one who totally coordinated this event with the assistance of a select number of others.

Also there are a number of people behind the screens that have done a lot of the invisible thankless work - such as camara guys & photographers. And of course all the car owners including RussRamz who both drove a highly impressive distance to attend.

I'm just one of the very few lucky people that were able to physically attend and enjoy the fruits of their hard work up close.

Gustav · 11th June 2007, 23:52

Wrong.

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Originally Posted by EvilEmpirE

PS. "Standard" or Stock speed limiter for Euro B5 RS4 is set to 230 kph

luxobarge · 11th June 2007, 23:54

Yes it was very nice of you two to show up. It would have taken me an eternity to get there if without sparring partners. Also thanks for the fun race. I never thought that I would be only half a car lenght behind an E39 M5. I guess the E39 must be more temperature sensitive than the 335. I should not have been able to be that close even considering you were two persons in your car.

Best regards,

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Originally Posted by Crille

I think that i got passed by 2 cars on the 310km drive down to the airfield so i guess that you drive either an Bmw 335i or an Bmw e46 touring

JIDEX · 12th June 2007, 00:00

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Originally Posted by Gustav

Very true. Mr Janne has been highly involved as well as also in fact Congaman with friends. Thanks RussRamz for coming to Sweden!

Congrats o all of you involved in this event

Gustav I "play" around with hightly modded GT2's quite alot
I have afriend of mine with a modded GT2 faster than the Rufthat I'll introduce you to when you come to NY.
Here's preview of our recent video
Video Google
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...13292629&hl=en

Not trying tohijack the thread
Just wanted to congratulate all of you involved in this.
Impressive.

p.s
Gotta fly Diveextreme out for the next meet

as his car has 100hpmore than my friends GT2