You're right. The first session, he was trying. He had me on torque and is one heckuva driver, but I was a bit better and had him in braking and turning.
The second session, we came rushing up on him like he was standing still and I thought maybe he was broken. Turned out he saw us coming and wanted to get video of the knife-fight that was closing in on him.
Gary (the other STi) and I are very equal drivers. I'm usually a tiny bit faster, but very little. One screwup that throws away a turn and/or heatsoaks my tires too much, and I spend the rest of the session trying to catch back up with him.
The other guy in our little group, Sheridan (Tom knows both of them) is really going to have his work cut out for him when he gets his 318ti back on the track. I hope he does some improvements to it, as I'd like to put camber plates and Hoosiers on my car, but don't want to have him massively outgunned on hardware, which that would do.
A good friend of ours who drives a race-prepped Scirocco used to be just a tad slower than Sheridan. This past weekend, I was a full second faster than him, so I'm likely a little faster than Sheridan. We'll see.
