Suzuki Samurai was Re: [geeks] SPARC proprietary (waaaay

[Kurt Huhn]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 04:21:42 +0000
wa2egp at att.net wrote:

> 
> Yeah, but the other drivers on the track know what they are doing (I
> hope). I friend of mine did drag racing on a track but never on the
> street.  His own personal code of ethics.  Of course that's not the
> same as the oval track.  But he would disagree that it builds usable
> skill in the manner you seem to indicate. They are not the same
> environment (at least here in NJ)

By skill, I mean an understanding of your car and the limits it has and
how to deal with them.  Which is as much a skill, IMO, as anything else.
 Learning to understand when the rear is about to kick out, how much
throttle you can apply before you can't make the turn, how much brakes
before you start to skid, the g-force limit of your car in a turn, etc. 
All this, and many others, are something that you can only really learn
by going to the edge, and finding (and remembering!) the warning signs
that you're about to lose it.  If you can remember those warning signs,
you're all that much better prepared to handle emergency situations on
the roadways.

-- 
Kurt                        "I'm utterly clueless...." 
kurt at k-huhn.com                          Verisign VP Chuck Gomes