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Originally posted by dameeks
Greg,
I take no offense to your response. In fact, i fully expected it. You have a business to run, and you have to do what it takes to make it successful. Just understand who reads the posts in this forum. It's mostly guys in the south/central Texas region that own Cobras. Not guys that run 8 second quarter miles.
My post was aimed at the people that post to this forum, who I believe are mostly like me. We work on our cars; drive them around town a lot; beef up the motors, and talk about going to the drag strip. Few people that I have run into have ever taken their Cobras to the drag strip, let alone call themselves "expert" drivers at the drag strip. If a guy has been racing for 20 years and runs 8 second quarter miles, he's not gonna care what I have to say, because he truly is an expert driver and knows what he can and can't handle.
My vast experience in drag racing amounts to a grand total of 2 times down the strip. One of those was 20 years ago, as an 18 year old kid. The other was Friday night. I don't have any delusions that I'm an expert driver. Just the opposite. I want to go to the track to learn about my car; see what it will do when I really get on it, in a legal and controlled environment. An expert will know exactly how to handle himself when he starts getting sideways at 100 mph, because he's probably done it a bunch of times. That guy will feel confident running on a tight track, because he knows his car and he has a general knowledge of what happens to cars in that situation. I, and probably 99% of the people who will read this post, aren't that good.
I wish you luck, and hope that things improve enough to get the guys like me back out there. I just don't plan on it being anytime soon. If anyone reads this thread that has run some really fast times at the Temple strip, feel free to chime in.
Darren
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Darren,
I didn't mean for my post to be offensive, but more so to clarify the facts that seemed to get somewhat distorted in your post. The point of my post was not to say that if you are an expert driver you can run 8's at our track; it was more to stress that we did everything humanly possible to provide a great a racing surface. The proof of our success is in the success of not only the really fast cars, but also the 11, 12 and 13 second cars that were running their best numbers ever. It also came from drivers who had raced at tracks like SAR, Kennedale and Denton and said that the numbers they were getting at our track was just as good and in Billy Martone's case, even better.
The part of your post that bothered me most was the point where you stated that the track was "seriously dangerous". I just couldn't find the justification in that statement, when cars making well over 1,200hp were stuck like glue, and we had no other situations aside from your friend in the Vette. I understand fully who reads and posts on this forum, which is why I was quick to retort. We have people everyday that we race come in and run their street cars for the first time down the track. You don't have to be an expert driver to know when to take your foot off the throttle, you just need a little common sense. Anyway, it was great meeting you, and your car is absolutely killer.