When is Ranger driving C7?
Drifting
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Ranger is an excellent driver but he also tends to have tons of respect for other people's property (a good thing!), so unless he buys one himself, don't expect to see quite the same "10/10ths level" of driving. I think just his skill alone will still produce very fast times even taking it relatively easy, though.
Le Mans Master
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Ranger is a good driver, but there there are people here just as good or better, not taking anything away from his driving skill but his hero runs are what you get when you put any good driver in perfect conditions .
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Must be nice to able to "chase the DA"...some us have to work and don't have that luxury.
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I was simply suggesting eliminating the driver component of the car's performance. Having Ranger drive the C7 would provide a good foundation for comparing car to car. Whatever you think about him is not really relevant.
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I haven't heard from or seen posts from Ranger in a while. I think he's off the grid.
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You ARE trying to take that away form him. From what I've seen he has consistently gotten the quickest numbers in multiple cars. You get the number then YOU can claim it. Jeez!
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Datalog your car (for the manual guys) and look at how much time is lost between shifts... it's humbling. DA is a huge factor but even here in the midwest we see negative DA (It's -3000DA today) it still takes a great driver to pull off a hero run.
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Melting Slicks
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But from what I have been seeing from the A6 C7s, I think Ranger would be hard pressed to beat Snorman's times driving a M7 car.
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Re-read my post, I said I was NOT taking anything away from his driving skill, I've seen him drive. If you think he is the only person who has "got the number" you are very mistaken, maybe some people could care less about "claiming" the number, some people have more important things to do in their lives.
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Who knows, GM probably took note and hired him to help with the number side of it.