[DeTomaso] Autocrossing a Pantera - was RFR

[Peter Kovacs]

The instructor at our PCNC events always said "you need to slow down to go 
fast".

I took my 88 Saleen to an autocross event. Big power, good suspension, street 
tires. 1 min 25 seconds making a lot of noise. The VP of the clup hopped in my 
car and went 1 min 10 sec...no drama. The median for the day was about 1:16 ish 
and the best of the day was about 1:05.(....for all cars other than mine). Very 
humbling.
 
Peter Kovacs
209 345-6708 
209 436-2000 fx




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From: "JDeRyke at aol.com" <JDeRyke at aol.com>
To: michaelsavga at gmail.com
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Wed, October 13, 2010 12:38:35 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Autocrossing a Pantera - was RFR

In a message dated 10/13/10 11:25:52 AM, michaelsavga at gmail.com writes:

> In AutoX, it ain't about speed and power, it's about being smoothest, 
> most often the slow looking cars are fast and the loud, tire squealing, 
> sliding, spinning dudes are slow.
> Women are really good at this, in fact, the best AutoX driver I ever saw 
> drive in person was a woman in a 914-2.0 with webers, she looked like sugar, 
> drove like what looked like honey being poured and had times that knocked 
> the boys out cold.
> 
I was never able to beat Judy's times by more than 1 second in the same 
car, so if I got frisky and caught a pylon (+1 second), I lost our personal 
battle... more than once! She says she forced me to learn to be smooth... which 
is true.
Some of the more memorable auto-Xs we ran involved an ex-Corvette racer 
that bought a modified Pantera... Being used to his 'Vette, he never got the 
hang of driving a quick-steering, mid-engined car, and couldn't handle the 
fact that Judy, in our stone-stock Pantera with narrower tires, was faster. He 
finally sold the thing after 2 years of trying. And I believe Dave Adler 
still says Linda is faster than he in their GR-5 'Whiplash'. Good times in 
low-key car games- J Deryke
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