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I think radios are much more useful than knowing lap times, but what do I know.

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Vincent Keene
'06 Ford Mustang GT (track rat)
'15 Dodge Charger R/T (yeah, it's got a HEMI!)
'07 Ford Fusion SE (205,000 miles and counting)
'98 Chevy Z-24 (retired)
'93 Acura Integra (Team SWB 24HOL Car)

Yeah, lap times mostly just get us in trouble, although we do need some way of keeping Robert down to a reasonable pace, as he will drive the tires and the brakes off of the car in a single session if we don't give him some kind of limit. He appears to be incapable of figuring out how to take it easy on the car. We had a 50 minute lead at Sebring, and he was still setting new fast lap times in the car, destroying the tires and brakes in the process. Then he burned a new set of pads off of the car in a single driving stint at CMP. We put him in the car last because we figured he'd do exactly that, but then I was out of good pads and had to grind notches in the backing plate of a set of pads for a different car (to make them fit in our calipers) that I bought from the trackside vendor so we could have brakes for Sunday. It's really driving me crazy.

We'll have to work on radios soon. Our main focus has been getting the car not to blow up and the drivers not to do anything stupid. At this point, I believe that we've got both of those things mostly covered, so it's probably time to work on some other stuff, like making it faster and improving our communications.

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"Every ship is a minesweeper, once."

It's hard to I will admit, but knowledge is power (via a radio) sometimes too.

For instance, I was in the lead on Saturday and was driving the wheels off the Golf (literally as it turned out) trying pass the Caprice. That driver was excellent at handling that beast of a heavy car and he made few mistakes. I ran nose to tail with him for 5-6 laps and finally used traffic to box him in so I could get passed him. Mind you he was fast enough to not 'hold me up', but I still wanted to be ahead of him. I mean it's a race right?

Finally they radioed me from the pits letting me know I was several laps ahead of that car, so why did I need to pass him? I moved over, pointed him by, and proceeded to follow him like a running back follows his blocker in football. Until the tire problem forced me in, he and I ran nose to tail for many more laps, and I didn't have to use up the car doing so. No need to 'race' a car you are that far ahead of.

BTW, my driving didn't kill the tire. 5 hours with 3/4" toe-IN did that!

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Vincent Keene
'06 Ford Mustang GT (track rat)
'15 Dodge Charger R/T (yeah, it's got a HEMI!)
'07 Ford Fusion SE (205,000 miles and counting)
'98 Chevy Z-24 (retired)
'93 Acura Integra (Team SWB 24HOL Car)

Yeh right. I tried that excuse years ago to no avail.

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BenchWarmer Motorsports

another one of those damn LeMons heads

just another Chump

we are an Autocross Club Dammit............

Radios are too much of a distraction. They've done it before, and (as I'm told) Roger will end up driving around at 35mph while talking.

I'd say....

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02 Focus SVT
STF 9