Re: 10ths......Was: Re: Torsens, UFOs and God...

[audidudi@mindspring.com (Jeffrey J. Goggin)]

>Well, i have wanted to say soemthing about this for a while now, but i 
>just havent had the motivation to.  I read a book called i believe "The 
>Racing Driver"  I cant remember who it is by, it is in my car, which is 
>about 25 miles away.  Anyway the author is an old school racer, talks 
>mostly about Sterling Moss and his experiences riding with Moss.  Anyway, 
>he writes an entire chapter about 10ths.  He says that most of the time, 
>people driving in every day conditions rarely if ever get up to 
>6/10ths....7/10ths is a little faster than normal driving, but not 
>necessarily pushing it, 8/10ths is pushing it, most likely the fastest 
>for street driving, 9/10ths is incredibly fast and pushing the car to 
>almost its limits, and is only possibly on the race track.  9.5/10ths is 
>the absolute limit for driving and keeping control of the car, that is 
>where the lap records and the fast laps come in...only then is the racer 
>going the fastest.  Once you pass that 9.5/10ths, you get to 10/10ths, 
>and by that point you have lost control of the car and that is it...you 
>end up off the side of the road or something...

When *I* refer to 10ths, I usually mean it in terms of 10ths of a 1g ... you
know, 7/10ths means cornering at .7gs, 8ths is .8gs, etc.  IMHO, driving at
more than 7-8/10ths on the street borders on irresponsible.
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