From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2024-11-05 17:26, a425couple wrote:   
   > On 11/5/24 13:07, Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2024-11-05 12:51, a425couple wrote:   
   >>> On 11/4/24 17:30, Alan wrote:   
   >>>> On 2024-11-03 20:48, ~misfit~ wrote:   
   >>>>> On 4/11/2024 10:39 am, pP85PrR wrote:   
   >>>>>> What an F'd up weekend.   
   >>>>>>   
   > SNIP   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I've been out on a very wet track with far less technology and it   
   >>>> can be a challenge.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Just look at some of the in-car/on-car video from Brazil when it was   
   >>>> just the intermediate tires and imagine it even worse with extreme   
   >>>> wet tires.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I do think that the FIA needs to re-think the rules regarding tire   
   >>>> changes during red flag periods during a race, though.   
   >>>   
   >>> I certainly agree about heavy rain causing vision problems   
   >>> for the drivers - this is not a skill problem, it is an absolute   
   >>> safety problem.   
   >>> And not just for the drivers, but also for race control and for   
   >>> turn workers.   
   >>   
   >> And that's coming from you...   
   >>   
   >> ...who I watched drive around at nearly walking pace in your sports   
   >> racer after all your competitors had gone off track in heavy rain!   
   >   
   > Wow!!   
   > Thanks for causing me to flashback to ancient memories.   
   > That was quite some day!   
   > My fastest lap (of 11) was 2:15, where my times were regularly   
   > in those years in the rocket ship under 1:25.   
   > 4 Sports Racers took the start, and either went off track,   
   > or into the pits before completing a lap.   
   > One other SR hung on and completed 2 laps, fastest being 3:12.   
   > Turns out, I just barely beat the best FV, his FL was 2:16.   
   > Your countryman Rick Paine (who next year (?) won the national   
   > Runnoffs in FF took 1st overall.   
   > That class victory pretty much cinched the years   
   > class championship.   
   > June 15 2014.   
   >   
   > My oldest grand daughter had fun playing in the mud puddles   
   > in the paddock.  Pretty wonderful day.   
   >   
      
   My pleasure for the reminder.   
      
   It was a crazy day; rain cells coming through, and trying to guess   
   whether your session was going to be wet or dry.   
      
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