Re: Holding the baton

[QSHIPQ <QSHIPQ@aol.com>]

In a message dated 98-04-05 04:47:02 EDT, you write:

<< circuit is circuit.  road is road.
  >>
Torsen is a torsen.  A balanced chassis has the advantage of not needing a lot
of prep when not on a road circuit (predictability and repeatability
specifically lacking).  The fact that the quattro had the advantage on the
circuit, makes more valid the results, not less so.  On a road, we could argue
a whole bunch of variables, that won't or don't translate to the track.  You
are a good quattro driver.  Are you a good M3 driver, or average?  I say I'm
not a really good M3 driver since I only had the car a week prior to tracking
it.  So, the advantage was to the home quattro court, all instructors in their
cars, their choice of tires and equip, their comfort zone, rain being the
quattro advantage.

Results backwards.

This needs little discussion, really.  When you get 60 quattros at a qclub
event vs 1 M3, the advantage seems to be in the bag for the marque.

Scott Justusson