[Rudolph]

Hello guys!

I am an "old member" of this forum, and even though I have been here for a while and I do not post lot... read a lot nontheless.

Well, I consider myself a true fan of the 4th gen F body platform, to the point the car I have chosen to put all my "nuts" in haha! I got my F ride directly from one dealer back in 1999, brand new, and the improvement over the car has always been step by step... Unfourtunately, yesterday at the tuffest race track we have here in México, my luck and proud encountered a wall tuff enough to challenge them:

Couple of guy from security checking before towing:
(IMG:http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg187/Rudolphinski/crahatthetrack1.jpg)

Once in the parking lot:
(IMG:http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg187/Rudolphinski/parkinglot.jpg)

Before:
(IMG:http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg187/Rudolphinski/Imagen2204.jpg)

Yesterday, my humor and will was prettey much as the car!! Today, the thing that comforts me the most, its my oldest and most experienced friend saying: -"Rudolph"... "there are 2 types of people in the racing department... the ones that have been involved in a crash, and the ones that will be, sooooo... fix the car as well as you can, and jump in again". I know that many of you guys have had, some kind of experience, such as the one am in, but damn, it is tuff.

Now, on the serious side!! I am only hoping I can find the most experienced guy that can help me to leave the car as it was before, meaning, "HANDLING", structural integrity, and at last, look as well as before.

If you guys, have some sort of comments on straighten the "chassis" (I know it is not a chassis literally) by all means, do it. I fear the car may never be the same again, talking about performance in the handling department, I will try it tough.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

Rodolfo Lara Pohlenz

This post has been edited by Rudolph: Apr 2 2012, 09:26 PM

[Lordvader]

Hello friends:

Mexico is a land of magic and witchcraft, so our HR racetrack is filled of phantoms, ghosts, spirits at every corner. Some can be your friends, some other will plkay bad things on you if you don't happen to know them. Some other times they will play bad on somebody else, so you be very not to go on their bad tricks.

Ive been driving at this track since the early 70s, just because I was less than 16 perviously. On those times the track had a real banked big turn which it is now about 800 feet radius. It has been flattened nowadays. The straight, the longest is 3/4 a mile long while the shortest is about 1/4 mile. I consider it a fast track, perfect for a powerful big american ponycar.

The thing started when I told Rudolph to go walk the race course, so I could show him the little crevices where those rascal demons live and wait for you to go in to trouble. The particular turn where he lost the car is the last of three esses; the first coming from the main straight, the second, an intermediateleft where you set your entrance point for the last and third right what it more than 90 degrees, where Ive seen Formula ones and sports prototype cars loose control and do the same dance, because this is the kinf of turn where the car accumulates excessive yaw movement and acceleration which the bad track demons excite so you loose traction and go into oversteer. Once the car is accelerated in yaw it is very hard to regain traction and control because you usually loose ground contact at a point where the speed of the car is considerable.

It is a pity we could not go walk the circuit the previous weeks, as I suggested him for4 his debut at this track, so Rudolph could have at least learnt, that, in that, particular corner, you can outcheat the demons just by slightly delaying the power take off point on the beginning of the corner before the apex. As the jet fighter pilots say "Let them pass you" (The demons). All those spirits are there waiting for you. It helps to spy them and learn their tricks from somebody who has been cheated by them during all this years. Next time you visit the HR make sure some local wizard exorcises the demons from you before attempting your best laps.

Everything else is just routine; the money, the repair shop, etc. Just be ready for the next time by walking the track before you drive again.

My regards to all of you and don't forget your amulettes.