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I finally got out today, its been 2 months since the last shop ride. The mountains and around the dam circuit was today's choice. This trip will be noted with a brief surrealistic interlude with the Ferrari boys. We were siting at a T section waiting for the others to catch up, and a Ferrari 308 comes around the corner. The bloke stops and he asks if we've seen any cops, we ask him if he'd seen any. We concluded that the roads were clear. Then a gto comes around the corner, then another gto, then another gto, then a blue 599 gtb. The guy in front then nods, smiles and shoots off, and his buddies follow. It was like a secret meeting of the Italian Horse Power Mafia or something.😁
We had a laugh as the stretch that he was about to have zoom on was totally unsuited for the cars, and he was in for a bumpy ride. What we didn't realize he was probably laughing at the crap we were about to face. Scooting along at 180-200kph dodging broken up road from the raining a couple of weeks ago. Very entertaining.
Then I had a dirt squirter try it on up the mountain. We passed at the foot of the mountain, and it must have got his heckles up. He spent a hell of a lot of time on my rear. A lot of his headlight in my mirror. It must have pissed him off no end as soon as the smallest straight bit came, I'd leap out to 11k in 2nd and 3rd, and he'd just fall away. I only had a couple of compression lock ups coming into corners under brakes, that probably amused him no end. I'm getting use to them now, I now push the rear around as soon as it happens, and use it to give a better line in on the corner. Feather the clutch, then open up the throttle and drop the clutch to gain traction. Edge of the road can get a bit close sometimes. In the really tight stuff he had it over me, just didn't have enough power to pass me. Didums.
A lot of today's thoughts as I was going along, were about how to set up suspension geometry for crap like the roads we were on today. The simple conclusion was you couldn't. It will always need to be in the happy trade off set up, in other words Factory set up.
Griff
