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Ride onboard Jody O'Donnell's angry Corvette as he sets pole position in the "Big-Bore Historic Sports Cars" class at Road Atlanta.

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c3_dk

NICE, thanks for sharing :- )

jr9170

ugly85chevy

That was fun.

67ermineconvert

so it looks like he uses first gear at times? rarely 4th what would you guys think his rear end gear ratio would probably be?

Dynra Rockets

My guess is a Jerico NASCAR road race trans with a super tall 1st gear. You got to slip the clutch a lot to get moving out of the pit but once moving you have an actual 4 gears to work with instead of 3.

https://www.sriperformance.com/jeric...4-4-4speed.htm

CPTCroaker

BLUF: I don't know much about this so forgive me if it's a stupid question, but I was shocked by how jerky that steering looked. Is that normal?

I feel like my car would fly off the road if I moved the wheel like that. That was cool to watch though.

Dynra Rockets

Very normal for a race car that has no grip. You are either counter steering from the loss of rear grip or sawing at the steering wheel to find front grip when it pushes. Known as "11/10ths driving" :-)

The Turn 1 footage is an example of sawing at the steering wheel to try and find front grip.

SHARKBIT77

Great video...

3JsVette

That's a monster ride right there. A lot of fun for sure.

OMF

Looks like lots of fun he's having there,... God I wish we had a track like that to race on.
You could see the spin coming before it happened, he was going much faster into the braking zone than previous laps.
The saying goes...if you don't spin out occasionally your not trying hard enough!!

TheSkunkWorks

An angry old beast hammering its way around a real racetrack - priceless!

Metalhead140

Awesome video!

gbvette62

Here are a couple pictures of Jody's Corvette, at Watkins Glen a few years ago. The car is very fast, and so is Jody as a driver.

cv67

Love it, hes working that beast!
Those jericos are awesome nice post cfe