fezzic181 wrote:Ran Lamest Day in an Kirkey intermediate drag seat someone had lying around. It was so great. I was able to relax and just let the belts and seat keep me in the same spot. No death grip on the steering wheel or pushing your legs against anything but the pedals. Two and a quarter hour stint to end the race and I didn't have a single ache from sitting. Worth it's weight in gold imho.
That reminds me of something I read here in the last 12 months of trying to study up for my correspondence course degree in Lemons Crap Car Building. I can't remember where now, maybe one of the Carroll Smith books (gotta confess, I get lost fast by the time I get to Tune to Win, I'm sure that I won't even crack Engineer to Win), but anyway, the author was making a similar point about fabricating and locating the driver's seat. Basically that in a road car, you can lean on all sorts of stuff and use your hands and feet to hold you in place, and the g-load you experience isn't all that great. But in a race car, all of your appendages are busy doing something else, like steering, shifting, and accelerate/brake/clutch operating. You can't afford to have to hold yourself in place, so you must rely on your belts and seat to do it for you (which is one reason why you want your belts so tight as to be uncomfortable at the start of the drive). Our Kirkey is like a glove. We used a Kirkey upright drag seat at NL and even that was pretty good although slightly less comfortable. But I can't imagine trying to race while sliding around on that plastic seat.
Well, I think we've beaten this horse into the ground now. Cheers.
Pat Mulry, TARP Racing #67
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