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I wasn't mocking you at all, Maytag!

As far as the Ferrari at the track, even if you take it pretty easy in the turns, it will still be fun, because it's very fast, and will sound fantastic.

My take on really pushing the new car at the track is this - one of my best friends is a professional driving coach. He is an awesome driver that just wasn't quite able to break through to the pro ranks where he could make a living by his racing. So he does the next best thing, which is coaching rich guys. That normally means new drivers in the Ferrari Challenge, which is basically set up to be a traveling racing fantasy camp for the uber-wealthy. Those are seriously fast cars, and after a few scary incidents (like spinning on the tri-oval at Daytona at 185 mph), he will no longer ride along with the students. Seriously fast enough that what would be a likely harmless spin in the Boxster could be a big deal in the Ferrari because of the greater speed. The Ferrari is a much more difficult car to drive really fast. A lot of the rich new guys crash their very expensive toys, or scare themselves silly early in their driving careers.

Just something to think about...

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Originally Posted by Racer Boy (Post 617782)

Yup, this is PRECISELY what I've been thinking about. It'll take a much better driver than I am right now, to do more than just "cruise" around the track. I entered it into a lower de group so I'm not tempted to try to go faster. Haha

It's like when I moved from the "thunder" series (air cooled twins) to superbikes.... went from 90hp to 180hp overnight..... yeah..... it's like that.
I'm going to take it very, very easy.

Thanks for the confirmation of my fears, haha.

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Originally Posted by maytag (Post 617785)

I entered it into a lower de group so I'm not tempted to try to go faster.

Sounds like a good plan. But Mike Tyson used to say "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face". What happens in the 2nd session after you've grown comfortable in 'cruise' mode? It will take a ton of restraint to keep the horses in the barn, lower run group or not. Don't get me wrong, every one of us would love to have this conundrum. I don't know anything about Ferrari's, so I don't know how easily yours can be worked on by a shade tree mechanic. We know tracking a car stresses it in ways a street car would never encounter.

Keep us updated, we all want to live vicariously thru you. Better yet, drop a vid to YT for us.

Yeah Maytag, adding to knowledge out here. Your badass.

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