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Nov 29, 2011 | 07:11 AM

#21

LancePearson

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From: Chester Virginia

prndl...nice car and good video. What speeds were you running around the speedway during the laps?

Lance P.

Nov 29, 2011 | 07:40 AM

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Nov 29, 2011 | 07:48 AM

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RobbSalzmann

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Nov 29, 2011 | 12:08 PM

#24

PRNDL

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Originally Posted by LancePearson

prndl...nice car and good video. What speeds were you running around the speedway during the laps?

Lance P.

I intentionally started at the rear of the pack so I wouldn't slow anyone down. Mostly C6s and a ZR1 in our group. There were 2 slower cars in front of me that kept me under 90, but I really didn't care. The rest of the field almost lapped us!

If you slow a little and let a gap grow you can easily run it up to 120 on the straights and some of the guys probably did a bit more than that. There is a pace car in front (going 80-90) and a pace car at the rear to keep things from getting too crazy.

Nov 29, 2011 | 12:54 PM

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LancePearson

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Prndl

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Originally Posted by PRNDL

Sounds like fun. I did the same thing with my small block four speed 76 at V.I.R. in May in several 25 minute driving sessions which is a road course of 3.27 miles with 17 turns and two pretty good straights. It is not banked but it does rise and fall 170 feet which on a turn makes a flat track reaallly interesting! The first session I was inexperienced and very slow but it gave me time to learn and the next sessions I dropped my lap times by a minute each one which satisfied me. I did hit something like 120 on the straights but one is a rising slope crest at the end you cannot see over followed by a turn a bit away so it took me some experience before tromping on the gas pedal going up that but I did. It makes me wonder if there is a classic car day at our banked D shaped Nascar track here, Richmond International Raceway. If there is, I might drive it in my car. There are some here who do what you did on the Talladega track in a big block and they actually hit 140 mph plus with their cars.

Thanks for sharing..those experiences like you had are just priceless.

lance p.