While I do secretly enjoy seeing them do total left field / asinine projects like this, it’s my strong opinion that their time and efforts would be better suited making the Type R actually substantiate its “resume” by surviving more than one lap on a race track with temperatures above 80F. For a car pitched as a track…
Just put the deposit down last week. Hit with right around ~7k markup; central Houston. After tax & title, it gets into silly territory for a hatch back. The things we do for love...
The irony....I’m pretty sure I was your last instructor out there (didn’t that weekend end with a bad wheel bearing in the 944?) and I was out there racing an old 94 SM with you lot last weekend. Had some fun battles during the first race stint. That car was waaaaay too clean ;)
You left out the real story here which was Selin Rollan driving from last place (grid penalty) to first place in his first race weekend of the series. Just the first two laps alone are bonkers examples of car control and race craft.
The elephant in the room: rev hangs (EPA) between gears (thanks to the DBW meddling). This car is anything but a love letter to the manual; more like a suicide note.
Thanks Alanis. Raised on this track. Ended up racing my father on this track. Life always comes full circle for everything. Thank you for the words.
Haha that’s Andrea B, who writes for Italy’s Evo Magazine if I’m not mistaken. He was reviewing the Alfa....
Hey Steph - check out Danny Steyn, he’s a bit of a wet race legend in the SM community...he’s goofing off here obviously, but he’s fierce when it’s racetime.
Hahaha — Stef, I love that you won’t let this one die. If anything, you’re adding to it :) Travis is right — every car community is annoying when you think about it.
I was a valet, and have a few stories that may have been someone else’s horror story. Does that count?
*slow clap*
Yes, there’s a whole division dedicated to the dream...... ;)
Donate it for the tax break (and a good cause). Just went through this same dilemma with a 97 Accord that I couldn’t decide what to do with.
I know as a driver you’re always learning and maturing - but at what point (or what series / car) in your career do you feel you really perfected your race craft to be what you are today? Call it the “a-ha” moment.
I like how you worded that like we didn’t run it for 6 different events, but I bull-you-not. Choose the platform that’s right for your team and then it’s all a matter of managing escalation and keeping a tight grip on what your goals are for the car (and luck).
For an overall? That’s way too high mate. I ran an 89 Turcell through 3 class wins and IOE for the cost of the cage, all in all 3k over the course of a few seasons. (http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/02/and-th…)
Maybe the overall - yes you might need that edge, but no, you don’t have to cheat. That’s kind of the beauty of it. Ran a 89 Toyota Tercel, which technically only cost the amount of the cage, for three Class C wins and the LeMons Index of Effluency, which essentially rewards that kind of effort.
Yeah, well, turn on F1 and see the same thing (Barcelona, perhaps). And damn right bumping is ok, good luck competing in any low-hp series without it.