[TPR] With LINK this time. Re: An E-ticket ride

Fri Apr 15 12:10:22 PDT 2011

Autocross is work...too much work. ;-]>

The 1st time I had the Pantera on the track in SCCA Solo I events was at SIR 
when I still lived in Seattle. It didn't take long to find out once that Pantera 
ass end snaps around there is little you can do to recover it....and with only 1 
set of tires I didn't happy the money or luxury of a dedicated set of race 
tires.....so while I have experienced  where and  usually when the pantera will 
180 I had the best experience in open track or ORR events just improving my 
driving skills  through through turns and learning the 'course...not apexing too 
early or too late. Now I am just happy to drive a little slower, looking out the 
windshield instead of the rear view mirror. ;-]>

My best/worse experience and some of you may remember this was with the 
Pantera's  stock girling brakes at Laguna Seca in '97 when we ran with Ferrari 
Club on Monday after Historics.....I had portafield upgraded pads but stock 
calibers and rotors and at the end of 3 or 4 20 minute track sessions of the day 
I was burning them up...figured wrong that I had ONE more session the brakes 
would hold up to....I was wrong.... those old Girling brakes, calibers and 
rotors could not handle much abuse...and with that abuse came serious brake 
fade.....and more then I realized until I really needed them.

Coming down off the hill on the last run of the day into the corkscrew I passed 
several other cars but as I approached the lead car which was a Ferrari boxer 
(recently restored) at turn 1 who was right IN front of me.....

I   didn't have enough brake..........quickly down shifted but was still moving 
too fast so I had two choices;
1.   slamming into the back end of the Ferrari (bad choice) or  
2.   go around him on the tightest turn of the course (not as bad a choice but 
not good either) .... it was a 'no-pass' corner in my group but I made it around 
the Ferrari and for my award I got a  BLACK FLAG .....anyway by the luck of the 
Pantera Gods I made the inside pass and didn't hit him or anything else....I 
pulled into paddock area.....Ferrari driver came up and smiled and said "nice 
pass dawg, is that your brakes I smell?!!"....... I gave him a weak barely 
audible  'thanks'....and then realized  I came close to ending up with a Ferrari 
restoration....I think around that time  I thought about upgraded brakes! ;-)>

Yea, so I got those (C4 brakes) and still the best answer for a bad driver like 
me is to just learn to stay off the brakes and improve my lines through through 
the turns....yea and get a second set of track tires! ;-]> 

Mad Dawg Antenucci 
Team Pantera Racing 
The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
www.teampanteraracing.com

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From: David in Durango <adin at frontier.net>
To: asajay at asajay.com; tpr at teampanteraracing.com
Sent: Fri, April 15, 2011 9:29:57 AM
Subject: Re: [TPR] With LINK this time.    Re:  An E-ticket ride

hindsight doesn't work on the autox course!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <asajay at asajay.com>
To: <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [TPR] With LINK this time. Re: An E-ticket ride

> This was a 100% genuine screw-up.  I exited a gate with my eye on the
> upcoming slalom.  Trouble was, the slalom appeared to be be too far
> away, which made me suddenly think I was missing something.  Glance
> right... sure enough, there was that gate I'd gone through several
> times already... just a flick of the wrist to turn the car, back off
> the throttle and hope to make the gate.... but it was all over by
> then.  :)
>
> Asa Jay
>
> Quoting David in Durango <adin at frontier.net>:
>
>> Bwahahahha, I found my first spin (cold race tires - I didn't think I'd 
>> ever
>> stop sliding!) a very liberating thing.  I became much faster - when I 
>> could
>> stay on the path.  congratulations!
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Asa Jay Laughton" <asajay at asajay.com>
>> To: <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:16 PM
>> Subject: [TPR] With LINK this time. Re: An E-ticket ride
>>
>>
>>> Yea..... helps if there is a link huh...
>>>
>>> http://min.us/mbq143szbV1yfy#1
>>>
>>> Asa Jay
>>>
>>> Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
>>> &  Shelley Marie
>>> Spokane, WA
>>> ******************************
>>> http://www.racingagainstautism.com
>>> http://www.teampanteraracing.com
>>> http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/14/2011 9:15 PM, Asa Jay Laughton wrote:
>>>> A friend at Autocross this last weekend captured my spectacular spin on
>>>> the final run of the day.  There are four photos.  The first has me
>>>> pointed totally in the wrong direction, this would be after the spin 
>>>> had
>>>> started.  He looked up with his camera just in time to snap these four
>>>> shots.  I had a passenger during this run too.  He had blast!  :)
>>>>
>>>> The other car in the photo is much nearer the camera than my car though
>>>> the photo makes it look much closer there was no danger of collisions.
>>>>
>>>> Asa Jay
>>>>
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