Quattro Club Event - Second Creek Raceway (Denver)

[Kaklikian, Gary]

Yes, John is awesome at Second Creek.  He is so smooth through the turns. I
was doing the charge the corners, abuse your brakes, lose a lot of speed
routine,  while he was just maintaining his speed through the corners.  I
think I'm going to paste the phrase "slow in, fast out" to my dashboard!
I think with competition tires like on John's A4 our times would have been
equivalent, but he could definitely be even quicker in my car. 

I was a bit nervous passing Gary Bergman, wary of accidentally clipping his
beautiful UrQ.  He too is a remarkably smooth driver, rumor has it he's
driven F1 cars.  

Flushed my front brake fluid and they're still spongy. Going to put some new
pads in and swap the master cylinder (only $45).  Hope I didn't overheat
those new Porsche calipers.  I also flat spotted two old P7000's "testing"
the brakes.  Better worn-out street tires than new Hoosiers!

Gary

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> From: 	Bruce Bell[SMTP:bbell04 at attglobal.net]
> Reply To: 	bbell at surview.com
> Sent: 	Thursday, May 24, 2001 5:28 PM
> To: 	Kaklikian, Gary; quattro at audifans.com
> Cc: 	jcnf at qwest.net; ekellock at jun.com
> Subject: 	RE: Quattro Club Event - Second Creek Raceway (Denver)
> 
> Nice post Gary. Thanks for the update. Don't feel bad being 2
> seconds behind Jon Fuerst, He'd be hard to catch if he were
> driving a Pinto.  FWIW your times are about 10 seconds faster
> than a bone stock 4kq with SP-8000's. I did pull the stopwatch
> out to time some of the hardware on the track Sunday afternoon. I
> measured two different S4tt running consistent 1'35-36'' times
> ....almost as good as the stock 4kq.  I guess those drivers
> didn't understand the slow in fast out concept. Wish I had the
> tire concession :-)  Gary Bergman in his beautiful black 83'urq
> (28k miles) was turning around 1'28"
> 
> Bruce
> 
> > Best I
> > > could manage was 1:24's, whereas two others, one in
> > a nicely-prepared A4
> > > turbo, the other in the 20vt UrQ, both running R1's,
> >  dipped into the
> > > 1:22's.    But, then again, John and Larry are also
> > much smoother around
> > > this track than I am.
>