Congrats, Jay!
Very nice results, especially considering that Matt's miata has pretty much every trick from the miata aftermarket known to mankind
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gtivr4 wrote:
horizenjob wrote:
Movable aero devices are illegal in most clubs ( at least I think so.. ).
Really? I've never noticed that as a rule anywhere. Keep in mind that cars like Porsches, Mitsu 3000GTs, VW Corrados, McLaren F1, Veyrons all have rear wings that are active.
Seems like that becomes more of an advantage under high speed braking if it was connected to the braking system.
Apples and oranges.
Horizenjob talks about actual racing series like the WTCC, ALMS, Super GT, DTM or even Renault spec racers.
There isn't a
REAL organized racing series in the world that allows movable aero.
Gtivr4 named a bunch of
STREET cars that have moving aero,
neither of which is allowed at any real organized racing series WITH those moving wings.
Of the listed cars only the McLaren and Porsches are really being used (or have been) for competition and always had fixed wings instead of the moving ones of their street counterparts.
The Redline time attack is what I refer to as "poster racing".
It's an event that is used mainly as a battleground for tuners of street cars to showcase their products on their own cars or customer cars.
This is really more of about bragging rights over the internet and cool pictures in magazines like
super street, sport compact car, import tuner and such.
Of course, the old name - time trial, had to be abandoned as it is nowhere near as cool as the crooked translation of the Japanese name for the same exact thing - time attack!
The cars are normally not your "regular" racercars that follow a rulebook closely to be legal for some racing series but more of the spirit of ITE / SU cars in various levels of prep.
There are some guidelines with regards to classification of the cars into street, modified and unlimited classes of their respective drivetrains, but that's pretty much it.
You can come with moving aero, nitrous oxide and whatever the hell you want on your car and most chances are that you'll still be legal to run in some class.
But, don't get me wrong, I'm not bagging on the time attack format, it makes for some very interesting cars and great fun to watch at times, as the radical machinery that finds it's way to the track at these event can be truly amusing.
Redline (and it's owner Chris) has been a really great group to run with too so thumbs up for them for putting up some popular events.
Moti, who will probably try attacking the time too, at some point.