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Old 03-25-2012, 10:06 AM   #2
ckkrause
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Just a thought.... I avoided DE sessions, (early on), then racing in the rain for several years... Finally, in fall/winter 2011, I bit the bullet and stayed out on track in the race car in the first weekend of constant rain. It horrible... I had a death grip on the wheel and was about 40 secs(!!!) off my best times. So the next race weekend I went out in the rain again after reading tons of stuff on line about racing in the wet and got a little better... particularly when I relaxed the death grip... It wasn't until the 3rd wet weekend that I finally stopped trying to "race in the rain" and started to drive by feel and get smooth.... Eventually I got within about 15 sec. of my usual times and even won one of the races as I was one of few who didn't spin.... and it became a different kind of fun.......

Stay with it!

-Chuck

w/respect to the dyno... since you should assume a loss of about 15%, you were probably getting more like 250 hp...
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