[s-cars] RE: Confessions of indiscretions

[Trevor Frank]

Yep heavy car, right why track it, yep expensive.  I have a street car
and a few race cars that I can drive from time to time.
	I have a street car that I enjoy doing silly things to.  There
is really no rational to it, just something to tinker with.  I enjoy it
and even late at night when it's just me and the car by ourselves, no
one get hurt.
	I suspect everyone understands that these cars are heavy.
	I suspect everyone gets the fact that they really are not ever
going to be the fastest think on the track.

	Honestly this could be said about any production type car.  You
want to go fast, buy and old formula Vee, a vintage formula ford, a spec
racer even.  For 5k you could really race.

Sometimes it is about the car and sometimes it is about doing with what
you have.

At the One Lap and other track events Miss Piggy was faster than some
Evo's, faster than some STI Subes, and faster than neu stripped S4's,
faster than new m3's, faster on a rainy day than most everything, faster
than a few spec miata's, heck I think we beat a corvette or three, just
to name a few.

What does that say about the track ability of those cars, nothing.

Where I am confused is the person that wants a track car but not a race
car, there is a debate there.

So I say modify the hell out of Miss Piggy, get it to run 11's with the
ac on and the car seat in the back, up a hill in the snow with family
and inlaw in toe..

But don't waste your money converting a perfectly good xxxx audi or
anything to just a track car, race it damn it.

SCCA and NASA need you to stop this track car madness.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Bufkin [mailto:jbufkin at austin.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 7:56 AM
To: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] RE: Confessions of indiscretions


>When does it stop?  More specifically from a philisophical question,
when and
>how is the driver improving his trackability?  The S car is a flaw in
the
>very argument.

Interesting Scott,
A heavy car requires the same if not more effort from the driver to go
fast.   I'll leave your comment on that as is.    I see where your
coming
from with the weight argument and the cost, but that argument alone
would
mean that everyone would naturally hit the track with a Miata or
something
like that.     Very boring if you ask me.

Respectfully,
James

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