jbrannon7 wrote:The straight path got reduced to about 2-2.5 feet, the left side cones were about 12 inches off the line and the right side was about 14 to 16 inches off the line. I had to tap the brakes for it, coast for 1 cone and then power out but Mark in his S2000 which is about 6 inches narrower was able to go thru there full throttle, I am not complaining, I enjoyed today course, but 1) if the alley had been 4 to 5 feet the course would have been faster for me and other wider cars and 2) if you were driving a narrow car like maybe an NA or NB Miata and you were braking there then you need to learn how Mark does it. It was fun to charge into that section and watch the course workers retreat
Sorry about that, Joe. A lot of course set up is happenstance and "yeah, that looks right". In this case, the setup crew put those cone walls right ON the line. (would have been impossible to drive without a downshift to first) And they way they had spaced the 4-cone walls, the easy fix was just to pull the inside cone from each one and put it on the outside. It looked good, and I didn't get out a ruler. You could "see through it", as intended, and I knew it would be drivable, especially since it was setup with increasing distance. (roughly 45, 48, 51, 54 feet)
I think it ended up being one of the most fun parts of the course. And, making it "less of a wiggle" for you, would also make it less of a wiggle for the driver of a narrower car. No free lunch. The only thing I can put on a course that will benefit YOU is a flat-out hairpin or other really tight turn that EVERYONE must slow down for, and YOU can dig out of. (but, even that won't save you from something like a turbocharged Miata that's going to be able to slalom better than you, AND dig out of that hole... wait, you're wanting to buy yourself an EVEN WIDER car?)
