Sim Racers 4 Life welcomes you to Season 5 of our Historic's League. After four seasons driving open wheelers, this season we take a little step forward in history and get to drive the historic Lola T280, a car that provides both a powerfull engine and adjustable wings.
This third event will take place on March the 15th in Mid-Ohio. Mid-Ohio is a tricky track that combines non-stop 2nd and 3rd gear corners and a fast back straight where drivers will be able to have a small breathe.
The event will be a classic 2x30 min races. Having the second race reversed grid for the top ten finishers of the first race.
[align=center] SR4L wishes you good luck for the season.
Many of us here dont know that we have a real racer among us who has actually raced in real life at Mid-Ohio (yes yes we do!!)
Jerry was racing with Formula Fords so he has actually been inside a bathtub trying to take the racing line lap after lap, so he sure knows what its all about.
Cmon Jerry, tell us about it, when, how, where?
Tell us whats the feeling inside there, not inside the security of a simulator.
Tim has also been to Mid-Ohio, he says VLM's reproduction of the circuit is very good and I bet Mel too has come by there.
Tell us gentlemen, pics, impressions, stories, every thing
wow, let's hear Mel's stories...
I am attaching a picture of the Formula Ford, I don't have many on this computer so this one is from Watkins Glenn:
here is a picture of the last dragster we ran also:
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my wife and I owned various dragsters, then I moved on to autocrossing, then to the formula ford - then BROKE
Tim was crew chief on them and we also crewed for my brother who drag raced professionally.
does all this help you here? NO! as a matter of fact, I think it hurts some, cause I am always searching for a feal, that you just don't get here, that I had there. plus that, there - wrecking was a very BAD thing. both for your health and $$$'s.
come on Mel - you old goot, tell us yours..
I don't know how to add photo's in post, i took a stab at it, if that didn't work i attached them too.
Gorka - I think you all would be plenty fast on track, you have the skills and the hand/eye coordination. probably a lot faster than I was at the time. the main sensation is feeling the chassis working and loading the tires. there were different compounds of tires and different classes would require you to run harder tires. when I did that, I would immediately feel a difference thru my whole body. I think sim racing feels more like running in the rain or ice. you lack that connection thru the seat of your pants to the track. also, there is no real world penalty for being too aggressive in sim racing. in the real world if you wreck someone or see a wreck you know that might just take that person out of racing forever - or even life itself. that is not fear, more like a healthy respect. I am shocked to see where we pass in sim racing vrs. what I seen on track. the last is - this is al lot easier to do. want to change gear ratio's - just click. not that simple in real life. hit the wall, go to pits and it is fixed. you would be on the hook and that cost MONEY. I could go on and on about MONEY too. but.. this is high jacking this thread - which is us racing at mid-ohio with the lola's.. maybe in the future I will post more about the old days and maybe even how tim got his nickname: Bullwinkle
jerry 33 Wrote:Gorka - I think you all would be plenty fast on track, you have the skills and the hand/eye coordination. probably a lot faster than I was at the time. the main sensation is feeling the chassis working and loading the tires. there were different compounds of tires and different classes would require you to run harder tires. when I did that, I would immediately feel a difference thru my whole body. I think sim racing feels more like running in the rain or ice. you lack that connection thru the seat of your pants to the track. also, there is no real world penalty for being too aggressive in sim racing. in the real world if you wreck someone or see a wreck you know that might just take that person out of racing forever - or even life itself. that is not fear, more like a healthy respect. I am shocked to see where we pass in sim racing vrs. what I seen on track. the last is - this is al lot easier to do. want to change gear ratio's - just click. not that simple in real life. hit the wall, go to pits and it is fixed. you would be on the hook and that cost MONEY. I could go on and on about MONEY too.
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jerry 33 Wrote:maybe in the future I will post more about the old days and maybe even how tim got his nickname: Bullwinkle
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