Track lines on various cars: WAS Delrin or Poly bushings?

[Ed Kellock]

My first Q-club school was in my CGT.   Had an absolute blast.  After
two laps with the instructor in the passenger seat, he asked, "Why
aren't you instructing?"

Ed

----- Original Message -----
From: illuminaudi at comcast.net <illuminaudi at comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:59:38 +0000
Subject: Re: Track lines on various cars: WAS Delrin or Poly bushings? 
To: quattro at audifans.com
Cc: t44tq at mindspring.com, ekellock at gmail.com, suffolkd at aol.com,
audi at humanspeakers.com

First off, I think Taka is right about the quality of instruction
being important and that one can certainly learn the "traditional
line" and other basic HP driving techniques anywhere.

However, the line that is taught at Generic Driver's Ed is an
all-purpose line that _will_ change according to the car you are
driving.  At the limit, different cars will handle, well, differently.
 Steering input will be different for cars with differing
engine/transmission layouts and even cars with similar layouts but
differing hp will act differently (like a Golf vs. golf cart).  For
example, a four-wheel drift will be initiated _much_ differently in a
RWD car compared to an AWD car.  In this example, the center of a the
car _might_ follow the same line, but the cars will probably not even
be facing the same direction at a given point in the turn, so there is
obviously a difference in what's going on.

I'd recommend go to the Quattro Club driving school as well, even if I
had a non-q CGT simply because there is a much greater chance that the
instructor has driven that particular car, and that's a good thing
IMHO.  I have two garages within a few blocks of my apartment, one is
a good garage that fixes most anything including Ferraris, BMWs etc,
and one is a good garage that specializes in European cars and the
head mechanic drives the same car as me (w/ about 300k).  Guess who I
take my car to?

BTW, the latest issue of Racercar Engineering has a good discussion of
how the "traditional" line isn't even the fastest from a theoretical
standpoint.

Just my $0.02

-Matt

'86 5kcstq