Southern Discomfort Videos

Either my car handles way better than yours, or one of us is doing it wrong.  I never have to work the wheel that hard mid corner.  I was tired just watching your video after 10 mins!

Haha! I wouldn't say our car handles perfectly, especially after we lost some weight up high and toward the back with some glass coming out. I never feel that busy in the car but watching the video wore me out too. If you guys are the 411, then at about 9min, one of us is doing it faster than the other one. This was end of the day Saturday.

I always enjoy sharing the track with y'all, even though I don't really know any of you except a little bit from thscc AX in maybe 2005.

Well done y'all! I read your last lap rundown. You think maybe a faster driver might have gotten your car 0.2 sec farther into the future and into 4th place?

But yeah, I know that's not what endurance racing is all about, though.

As a good observer, moderate mechanic, avid reader but mediocre driver I wonder if one of the three is accrurate:

1) Bushing or steering slop that require turn in, chassis settle, correct as SOP (had this in the van running stock).
2) Alignment just barely on the wrong side of the stability/agility balance but I doubt this on as in a straight line corrections seem minimal.
3) Like many drivers, you can feel what the car is doing quite well but the willingness to let the car do what is does and smoothly correct is not quite there (oddly, I am better than most here).

That driving style, if 1) is not the case, has to be hard on tires...and exhausting.  Not criticizing anyone here because I am by far the slowest driving in our slow class C car.  What I have noticed is the guys who know their stuff in a moderately well sorted car going fast...they still makes tons of corrections but they are about 25% as drastic corrections about about 5 times as often.  I forget the car but watching Anton lap was sublime.

Again, not knocking anyone but from my motorcycle days (the only time I think I was ever fast) I remember watching the guys I passed acting very differently than I did.  It was 80% the bike setup most of the time but the rest was without a doubt not having learned "smooth is fast, fast looks slow".

Aww, thanks, Ian! Usually my corrections are done trying to negotiate for a little early rotation on the way into a corner and then trying to pop the wheel open as soon as I can on the way out and maybe having to grab a little more steering angle to hit track out where I want to be. We don't have power, so getting rotation done early and getting back to the gas quickly helps. So does keeping the wheel open and the front tires straight.

I'm happy to digest any feedback or criticism. I always want to be faster and improve. I'm just a hack with a car.

Anybody else have any entertainment from the weekend??? The racing was very clean and smart, from what I saw. So, there probably aren't any shockers, but I always love getting to watch other folks get after it in their cars.....

The Duff gang are the tops on and off the track, for sure! You guys are what Lemons is all about

That car looks tiring to drive for sure but you guys make some great moves.

If any of you guys want to see your own taillights, here's 2-3:30 on Saturday  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw7IPsq9z80
and 1:10-1:40 on Sunday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIlCmDwvo9Q taken from our pizza delivery craft the Toyocedes.