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brian schuetta · 01-27-2021, 10:32 PM

I have raced slow cars ( 19-14 secs ) for a long time in brackets, back to 1985 when I was in college. I ran a slow car out of necessity because I had no money when I was in school. So here is my take away from all these years. One build a slow car. Two, they can run off with vary little variation in weather, track, etc. But, you can be successful beyond what you can even imagine with a slow car. Pay attention to everything. I can say that we had more consistent cars in Div 3 than Div 4, 7 & 5. IOW the heat seemed to be harder to deal with when dialing the cars. I could win in hotter climates but hot lapping became a problem, carb or EFI. I have always had what I considered good cooling routines between rounds. Reading the guages, mechanical always, didn't seem to give the whole story when dialing the car in hot regions so look at just about every variable, good weather station helps.
One thing about a slow car was that I easily got a lot of runs on it. Practice on Wednesday nights or whatever. I leave on the second bulb " on " with most of these cars, shallow staged .I know some people like deep staging but leave it alone. Unless its obvious you will win take the finish line don't hit the brakes before the finish line. I only turn my head 90 degrees most of the time, use the mirrors otherwise. Have better results taking the line than playing games. I love getting rental cars and entering them in bracket races. Two, three time runs and race. If you do that you'll know what you're getting into. Just remember all rental cars are not created equal, refer to Brent on that. With the way things are go with the slow car.
I'm actually back in Div 3 righrt now and hope to be out in April with something.

01-27-2021, 10:32 PM	#6
brian schuetta Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: san antonio tx Posts: 259 Likes: 5 Liked 28 Times in 15 Posts	Re: Lower Class Imput I have raced slow cars ( 19-14 secs ) for a long time in brackets, back to 1985 when I was in college. I ran a slow car out of necessity because I had no money when I was in school. So here is my take away from all these years. One build a slow car. Two, they can run off with vary little variation in weather, track, etc. But, you can be successful beyond what you can even imagine with a slow car. Pay attention to everything. I can say that we had more consistent cars in Div 3 than Div 4, 7 & 5. IOW the heat seemed to be harder to deal with when dialing the cars. I could win in hotter climates but hot lapping became a problem, carb or EFI. I have always had what I considered good cooling routines between rounds. Reading the guages, mechanical always, didn't seem to give the whole story when dialing the car in hot regions so look at just about every variable, good weather station helps. One thing about a slow car was that I easily got a lot of runs on it. Practice on Wednesday nights or whatever. I leave on the second bulb " on " with most of these cars, shallow staged .I know some people like deep staging but leave it alone. Unless its obvious you will win take the finish line don't hit the brakes before the finish line. I only turn my head 90 degrees most of the time, use the mirrors otherwise. Have better results taking the line than playing games. I love getting rental cars and entering them in bracket races. Two, three time runs and race. If you do that you'll know what you're getting into. Just remember all rental cars are not created equal, refer to Brent on that. With the way things are go with the slow car. I'm actually back in Div 3 righrt now and hope to be out in April with something.