<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div></div><div>Autocross is work...too much work. ;-]></div><div><br></div><div>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. ;-]></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.....</div><div><br></div><div>I didn't have enough brake..........quickly down shifted but was still moving too fast
so I had two choices;</div><div>1. slamming into the back end of the Ferrari (bad choice) or </div><div>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! ;-)></div><div><br></div><div>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! ;-]> </div><div> </div><div><strong><font color="#0000ff"><em>Mad Dawg Antenucci <br></em></font><font color="#ff0000">Team Pantera Racing</font></strong> </div> <div><em><strong>The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing <br></strong></em><font color="#0000ff"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.teampanteraracing.com">www.teampanteraracing.com</a></font></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> David in Durango <adin@frontier.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> asajay@asajay.com; tpr@teampanteraracing.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, April 15, 2011 9:29:57 AM<br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [TPR] With LINK this time. Re: An E-ticket ride<br></font><br>
hindsight doesn't work on the autox course!<br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: <<a ymailto="mailto:asajay@asajay.com" href="mailto:asajay@asajay.com">asajay@asajay.com</a>><br>To: <<a ymailto="mailto:tpr@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:tpr@teampanteraracing.com">tpr@teampanteraracing.com</a>><br>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:00 AM<br>Subject: Re: [TPR] With LINK this time. Re: An E-ticket ride<br><br><br>> This was a 100% genuine screw-up. I exited a gate with my eye on the<br>> upcoming slalom. Trouble was, the slalom appeared to be be too far<br>> away, which made me suddenly think I was missing something. Glance<br>> right... sure enough, there was that gate I'd gone through several<br>> times already... just a flick of the wrist to turn the car, back off<br>> the throttle and hope to make the gate.... but it was all over by<br>> then. :)<br>><br>> Asa Jay<br>><br>>
Quoting David in Durango <<a ymailto="mailto:adin@frontier.net" href="mailto:adin@frontier.net">adin@frontier.net</a>>:<br>><br>>> Bwahahahha, I found my first spin (cold race tires - I didn't think I'd <br>>> ever<br>>> stop sliding!) a very liberating thing. I became much faster - when I <br>>> could<br>>> stay on the path. congratulations!<br>>> ----- Original Message -----<br>>> From: "Asa Jay Laughton" <<a ymailto="mailto:asajay@asajay.com" href="mailto:asajay@asajay.com">asajay@asajay.com</a>><br>>> To: <<a ymailto="mailto:tpr@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:tpr@teampanteraracing.com">tpr@teampanteraracing.com</a>><br>>> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:16 PM<br>>> Subject: [TPR] With LINK this time. Re: An E-ticket ride<br>>><br>>><br>>>> Yea..... helps if there is a link huh...<br>>>><br><span>>>> <a
target="_blank" href="http://min.us/mbq143szbV1yfy#1">http://min.us/mbq143szbV1yfy#1</a></span><br>>>><br>>>> Asa Jay<br>>>><br>>>> Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired<br>>>> & Shelley Marie<br>>>> Spokane, WA<br>>>> ******************************<br><span>>>> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.racingagainstautism.com">http://www.racingagainstautism.com</a></span><br><span>>>> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.teampanteraracing.com">http://www.teampanteraracing.com</a></span><br><span>>>> <a target="_blank" href="http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism">http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism</a></span><br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> On 4/14/2011 9:15 PM, Asa Jay Laughton wrote:<br>>>>> A friend at Autocross this last weekend captured my spectacular spin on<br>>>>> the final run of the day. There are
four photos. The first has me<br>>>>> pointed totally in the wrong direction, this would be after the spin <br>>>>> had<br>>>>> started. He looked up with his camera just in time to snap these four<br>>>>> shots. I had a passenger during this run too. He had blast! :)<br>>>>><br>>>>> The other car in the photo is much nearer the camera than my car though<br>>>>> the photo makes it look much closer there was no danger of collisions.<br>>>>><br>>>>> Asa Jay<br>>>>><br>>>> _______________________________________________<br>>>> TPR mailing list<br>>>> <a ymailto="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com">TPR@teampanteraracing.com</a><br><span>>>> <a target="_blank"
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