by Burrell » Sun Jul 27, 2014 6:37 pm
As Czar is the more experienced racer, I will wait until he gives more technical feedback on race results and I'll comment with my more novice observations.
I was running the red lane. While it was shorter than the blue one, my times were still slower. That is a result of my less experience as a driver in general and Czar's track. I took more practice laps than Czar with each car to try to find my groove, but I had more deslots than he did. I promise that I gave an honest effort and tried my absolute best with everyone's car. Some cars were just easier for me to handle than others. Trust me, there was nothing quite like the shame of having the worst lap total with Czar's car and he sitting on the other side of the table watching me continue to deslot his BMW.
The cars were a lot of fun and I could tell a difference in so many of them. Reek's comment about consistency was spot on. For me as a driver, the more consistent the car the better I did with it. Both Corvette's were a lot of fun to drive. Carrera is going to benefit from this proxy as I see a 'Vette in my future, a car that really wasn't on my radar until this race.
As Czar stated, the run order was completely random. We drew numbers for the parings and went through all 10 cars. Then we put all the numbers back in a box a redrew for the other lane run, so no cars matched up against their opponents in the first lane.
I'm looking forward to seeing results on the upcoming tracks. I learned a lot about set up from this race, which was one of the reasons I wanted to do this proxy. I even opened up a car after the race that I particularly enjoyed driving to take extra note of the set up so that I can try that for myself in the future.
I cannot thank everyone enough for participating and trusting the cars with us. The box was shipped to TuscoTodd in Ohio on Saturday morning, so hopefully they will arrive safe and sound later this week.
My tire choice was Paul Gage PGT-21124-XPG.