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Firechicken · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 10:02 am

Garry wrote:

Hm ... well, apart from the issue of tire-wear (especially for cars w/o ABS!) ... the "skill" required for flooring the brakes doesn't really qualify for a "contest" IMHO ... it will just reflect the quality and physical specs of you car, and possibly double as a test to see whether it's time to replace the pads or disc ...

Garry.....I'm surprised by this comment. The only real difference between a braking event and the 1/4 mile is one you stop as fast as possible the other is acellerating as fast as possible. Yes there is R/T involved and either upshifting or downshifting for both. JMHO.
As for the location, how much of the airfield does 1 on 1 have past the Auto-x area??? The area could even be put along the Auto-x course. I have ZERO problems making this happen. I really do think that it would be an event that alot pf people would want to be apart of since there are 3 different events. It's just an idea but I can make it happen with alittle help!! By looking at this post it looks like there are only 3or 4 people really interested in this, chime in with your thoughts....PLEASE.....good or bad idea????????

Squirrelina · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 11:14 am

now after getting the ok from one side and dates for 2004, I got a letter from the other end saying that we have done serious damage to the taxiway and they want to resurface it and send me the bill... :roll:

BenZ28 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 11:27 am

Really???
So the damage is from October... or from which date? I mean they tell you this NOW instead of right after the event? :evil:

Ben

Firechicken · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 11:55 am

What damage??? How big of an area are they talking about??? :?:

Squirrelina · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 12:06 pm

no, not from October, from all year. I do not know what damage they are talking about, the few little holes have been there before, there was other clubs than us racing (even quartermile), we changed the burnout area onto the concrete per request, all what is left is rubber in the start area - but is that to be considered damage? we shall see...

SSZ28 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 5:49 pm

They need to resurface some of the track? HMMMMMMMM, I have some old tires that I could mount and re-seal some of it for you. :twisted:

If they are complaining about the track, I suppose I should bring some grass seed to re-seed the future "brake test" area. :twisted:

Firechicken · **Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2003 6:31 am

Squirrelina,
Are they also going to bill the other clubs for the damage????
SSZ28,
I have a 25lb bag of "Kentucky Blue Grass" grass seed for that new brake test area :ok:

(LOL)

I hope this won't affect the future racing there, it is truely a decent area to go to.

Squirrelina · **Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2003 7:23 pm

no problem,

if they don't like us,

I will have another

better

place

SSZ28 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:33 am

What's the story with Sembach? I know that a few years ago, Grafenwoehr was about to allow drag racing until that guy got seriously injured on the dirt oval.

SSZ28 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:36 am

What about Pirm.? Used to be 1/8th mile...

Firechicken · **Posted:** Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:59 am

I don't understand this, does Sembach and Bitburg not want to make any money???? I really don't understand. I watched an auto-x cross being held in a Wal-mart parking lot. Yes that's no BS, they said that the money was good along with the added customers! Sembach and Bitburg have the cornor market on this. Does this mean that there will be NO RACING for anybody ( all clubs)????? :rant:

Garry · **Posted:** Fri Oct 24, 2003 3:22 pm

Sembach doesn't have the airfield anymore - it was torn up by the end of 2002 ... Pirmasens doesn't have (or give) permissions for car-events on the airfield AFAIK ...

zcam94 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:30 am

I even tried to get Gieb to open theirs, the community wanted to do it but nobody wanted to volunteer time and the insurance thing was giving them trouble.

Squirrelina · **Posted:** Sat Oct 25, 2003 10:36 am

Garry wrote:

... Pirmasens doesn't have (or give) permissions for car-events on the airfield AFAIK ...

...of course not, owned by x diff companies and buildings all over

sven · **Posted:** Sat Oct 25, 2003 7:27 pm

Daddy · **Posted:** Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:30 pm

Screw it! Lets just race on A62. Or the 6! We can race a full mile!

Squirrelina · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2003 12:41 pm

...let me give you a list of possibly hidden radar traps before you do.
Don't know if you find a full mile then...

But we could close two exits I know about 3 miles apart, so we could race on the bahn and return to the start on a side road I know.
We just take the printouts from the radar trap for timeslips... they should be pretty accurat.

Garry · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2003 5:07 pm

... and the winner earns the right to not have to use his/her car for some time!!! :twisted:

sven · **Posted:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 6:01 am

A 63 between mainz and kaiserslautern is another good one. a slight bend but pretty much dead straight with a 360 degrees panoramic view because the autobahn is higher than the surrounding farmland. there is one or two sections where you go 7-8 miles between exits, maybe that migh not be accurate, but I know because I almost ran out of gas on that road and I was litterally on fumes when I made it to the end and found a BP.

BenZ28 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 10:53 am

That's right Sven, you just have to watch out when you're going highspeed over the bridges... WIND! :shock:

Ben

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