Cars, etc.

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Wow! That's some seriously quick accelerating through a close-ratio gearbox! Would guess terminal speed in that sound file in the 120-140 range?

A friend's wife brought her non-S (one of the first shipped) MC's to the track at the last event. Just to hang out with him; not to run the car.

I talked him into taking me for a ride in it. The way that car handled, even with all-season run-flats on it (which, with the wheels is about 80 lbs at eac corner and the anti-thesis of what's desirable in a light car that can seriously turn) was incredible! We weren't hitting the kinds of speeds we hit in bigger cars, but we'd go way past "normal" braking points and he'd just tap the brake to put weight on the front of the car and dive into the turns.

I was laughing out loud during most of the ride. Couldn't believe what that little car was capable of! It was getting mugged on the straights, but the cornering G's were incredible!

Another friend with an S who was getting smoked by most of us at MAM switched to light wheels with R-compound tires on them on a Sunday morning and was suddenly one of the fastest cars on the track.