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Thread: Pro Touring Lap Times
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12-07-2017 #21Registered User
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- Nov 2016
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- Rockford, IL
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I'll weigh in a little on this topic. I frequent our local Blackhawk Farms Raceway track and also Road America to spectate mostly and here in the midwest people just don't take their ProTouring cars to the road courses like people do on the west coast. I had my 70 Camaro to our short Blkhwk Farms track this past summer and kind of found it a total mis-match. My Camaro runs pretty strong but I'm a little rusty on my driving. But the real thing going on here is the amount newer Z06 Vettes and 1LE Camaro's out of Chicago are burning up the track. There are old guys like me with new Z06's going to the track for the first time and just driving around everyone else. With the exception of the really diehard guys like Steilow and Brian Hobaugh that spend extreme amounts of time and money to get there cars to work and the talent/ experience to said drivers most of our ProTouring cars just can't keep up. I read a article somewhere this past summer written by one of west coast hot shoe that spent considerable time refining his 69 Camaro to work on the track. The he bought a C5 Corvette and said there is no comparison. He could just drive the vette where he had to just throw the Camaro through the corners to make it go fast. The whole ProTouring thing is just a repeat of the ProStreet scene that started in the 80's. We want to look the part but really have no intention of every really pounding on these cars much.
As a side note on the new fast cars I'm not liking what I'm seeing with drivers buying the super fast vettes, camaros, GTR's and then pushing them to the max speed without safety equipment. How about 180mph at Road America in a Z06 with only a standard seatbelt. No Thanks!! I raced 800 - 900 hp off road trucks for 10 years and like all true race cars safety equipment abounds. I want to do more track events but not with my Camaro. I'm looking for older former retired SCCA race car that has full cage and the proper safety equipment to use as a track car. It will not be as fast as a Z06 or 1LE but a least I have protection in the event one of these these guys has a brain fart and tries to run over someone. Besides really think about the purpose of track day events.Mike
I'm old, gray hair, balding, and retired, and I'm still wrenching on cars. I thought wisdom came with old age.
70 Camaro, 406 sb, 6spd, 4:10 gear, BMR Suspension
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12-07-2017 #22