"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
01/29/2018 at 12:25 • Filed to: None
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"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
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Leading at lunch just to have the #169 tap into his decades of experience and open a can of whoop-ass on me in the afternoon. I think I preferred the first ITT where he was just 3 seconds faster than me every run. This marks 2 second places in 2 events this year. I’ll get him eventually.
Scoring is an average of all runs after dropping the slowest. I spun on Run 3 and Run 7 was done as the last car of the day because I apparently missed a run in my afternoon session. Working the second run group in the afternoon I was wondering why they were all having off courses in the second half of the course. Got out there to do my missed run after the last car had gone and discovered the line was gone. It warmed up in the afternoon and if you didn’t have the course memorized you were going to go off (we tried pointer cones but with 40mph wind gusts they wouldn’t stay put so the policy was “just follow the super stud tracks around the standing cones”). Also didn’t help that it had turned into a slushy mess during the change over from my run group to group 2.
diplodicus
> TheTurbochargedSquirrel
01/29/2018 at 13:08 |
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What kind of tires do you run for ice racing? If they’re studded does it feel weird with the FWD?
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TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> diplodicus
01/29/2018 at 13:24 |
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I’m running Blizzak WS80s in a 175/65-15 downsize (standard size is a 195/60-15). They are a hardcore studless snow tire (meaning they are really designed to work in several inches of snow) and don’t work the greatest on hard ice. They work wonders in the snow and when the ice has been chewed up a bit by the super studded cars though. Cornering grip is good on the Blizzaks and they are super controllable but they really struggle to hook up under power (115HP of pure fury!). I wasn’t able to get past 50% throttle last weekend.
My studded experience is limited to 10 street miles with Hakka 8s on my Sister’s Impreza so I can’t speak to what they are like to lean on.