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Originally Posted by Triple M
FTS and CSBM5 both hit the nail right on the head. What what worked in instructing 20-30 years ago when power and car weight was less is different from what would work with today's car's monstrous power. For God sakes, if F1 and other forms of motor sport thought it was an unacceptable to take such risk, why should the rest of us with resource and technology think we know better. Its still amazes me how some of the greatest talents in the sport lost their loves doing it and we can't use "lack of skill" or "poor judgment" as an excuse. Car of nowadays are just blistering fast in my opinion. 1 hot lap in friend's ZR1 was enough for to say "this is not for me". One of the winding road article pointed out that today's car design is clearly the opposite of what a track car should be 3800 lbs, lumpy suspension, and mushy street pad, yet we try to drive them at the limit. I mean, why track pad, why coilovers, why nannies??? etc. they are all efforts that are aimed in an effort to get the car around the track faster without killing ourselves in the process. My old E30 M3, and miata is a more forgiving car with street pads on track than my E92 M3. It's amazing when you look at "race cars" nowadays and you see "race ABS", "race TC" why? I wonder why  . We all know why. Good friend of mine sold his GT3 said it was "too much of a car to handle at limit", bought a BRZ, had it fully caged and fully built by local Subi Zenkai Motorsport and he's much happier. Bottom line is most these vehicles would be close to impossible to drive even on public roads for the average joe without electronics. That's the reality of today's cars obesity coupled with excessive power needed to propel them, then we decide to turn some of them into track cars and it gets a little more serious from there. I'd still love to see a RWD skyline GTR. |
This sounds like the opposite argument of the NRA and guns…it's not the people, it's the cars!
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