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What was the GTR like ...

 


... particularly compared to the 911? You concentrate on times and the second place (congratulations, sounds pretty good to me!) but I would be interest in the driving experience. You comment about the GTR feeling slow, even with a reaonable time posted, which implies to me that it is very capable and stable under these driving conditions. Perhaps too much though, if it feels slow. My rather lame personal example is my very first car, a Mark II Mini Cooper S from the late 1960's. Because of the raw driving experience, the noise, and being so close to the road, I always felt like I was going faster than I actually was, and it was great fun because of that. I think I have been trying to reproduce that feeling ever since with subsequent cars, and although they get bigger and more powerful, it's hard to recapture the rawness.

Hope you had fun anyway!

Regards

Andrew

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A silly dilemma

 
By: tourbillon001 : March 4th, 2011-20:01
as the title says this is kinda of a silly dilemma with no real consequences but here it is. There is a PCA autocross on sunday. My PCA region does an autocross once a month and rewards points at each autocross to crown a Champion at the end of the season... 

10 races

 
By: grigo : March 4th, 2011-21:35
If you drive the GTR this weekend and don't score any points, can you still statistically win the overall autocross if you win the last 10 races? I would also point out that a lot of the fun is simply in competing. Best regards, George

it would be a tall feat

 
By: tourbillon001 : March 4th, 2011-23:00
because I would assume he will win the S4 class again which would put him one 27 points with ten races to go. The difference between first and second place is 3 points per event. So the math does allow for a very close points race that can still be won by... 

I would go for the race on the GTR

 
By: grigo : March 4th, 2011-23:55
If it is only going to happen once, go for the burn. I say take the risk. It heightens the stakes for sure. Best regards, George

re: dilemma

 
By: DRMW : March 5th, 2011-00:53
"....this is kinda of a silly dilemma with no real consequences..." How about just racing the car you feel like driving that day, focus on having fun and improving times, and forget the points? IMO, PCA is laid back but POC is much more serious bunch of g... 

Thanks DRMW

 
By: tourbillon001 : March 5th, 2011-11:17
I think your idea is great. I wish my personality allowed me to do so. I normally go in thinking I'm just going to enjoy the ride and not worry about my times but once I pass the timing lights a different switch is flipped in my brain. I guess a little ba... 

It's....

 
By: DRMW : March 5th, 2011-17:45
It's good to see that you still have the fire to be competitive. Keith Code? Cool. Still have his Twist of the Wrist books in the Library, also a bunch of us took a weekend course many years ago. Great class and the instructors were really good. Whatever ... 

If this is the only opportunity ...

 
By: AndrewD : March 5th, 2011-20:59
... to experience the GTR under these sort of race conditions, I would certainly do that. The 911S will always be there. But actually the points would be less important to me than the racing experience and performing to my own highest ability. But I can u... 

Well the results are in

 
By: tourbillon001 : March 6th, 2011-16:49
I'm afraid I let you guys down. I was a serial cone killer. The GTR was like a bull in a very small china shop. It was almost comical at how many cones I killed, but each run my lap times were coming down as I was collecting cones. On my last run of the f... 

What was the GTR like ...

 
By: AndrewD : March 6th, 2011-17:26
... particularly compared to the 911? You concentrate on times and the second place (congratulations, sounds pretty good to me!) but I would be interest in the driving experience. You comment about the GTR feeling slow, even with a reaonable time posted, ...