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Post by flipflopoo1oo on May 9, 2014 1:41:04 GMT -6
I once made a deal with my friend, car owner-driver, that I would take the blame for any bad thing that happened to the car while on the track for the year! The next year was going to be his turn to make calls and take the blame! It went well all the time after that as to me calling the shots! Differences sometimes do happen in the how of winning or loosing on teams! Team work is doing your part at your skill level to help win! I try to give a driver a good understanding of what a set-up can do with a set of special matched and grooved tires on the high side going in over his head! But then he wants to do so every lap and the tires can't stand the heat! I have been lucky to have all winning drivers on many teams through the years and wish the same for all! Good relations is team work and can make winning less stress related to drivers and the lowly chiefs! If both, you have my sympathy! I never wanted to drive but I try to do my part to ease a drivers stress of winning all the time!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Jun 20, 2014 0:13:40 GMT -6
Drivers come and go but a few listen and learn enough to know that if turning right to go left your car is sliding or steering to much! Pleasing a driver's needs is a team work of educated theories that win and that's what most want is to win! Giving a win or teaching one how to be there to win is sometimes a strain if the driver has won before! Being open minded and listening first is a team gain in getting to the front! Adjustments are not just for chassis as drivers learn what a car can and won't do or will do a few times every now and then if conditions and chassis is correct! A driver may not need to know about horses but should understand how his chassis works and not how some one else may do theirs to win! Most all chassis are different in reactions of change with so many variances! When driving and winning looks easy, it is the team that wins! If driver and chief flunky, get some help! This is why we are here!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Jun 22, 2014 10:33:00 GMT -6
Hey guys, don't get mad at me because I'm not some doctor, lawyer, or shoe sales manager! I am only doing what I am qualified to do! Years of training and practical before ever seeing a dirt car makes it seem so simple to me! I don't know a thing about 4 legged horses and lost when others talk about theirs! I couldn't tell you what is in the news or how my brothers are doing but I know cars! Attitude and temperament from my post seems to be of disbelief as I was of most things before hours of study in my youth! Older, wiser and willing to hand out what years has proven to be true seems to be harder than first thought! Bare with me and just know it comes as a offering to all racers to do with as they please! Not over the hill yet and working with Hydrogen and magnetics as to improve performance and mileage! If it sounds like a duck and quacks like a duck you best ask Phil! If it purrs like a kitten and roars like a lion but smells like horse power, I'm close by! It's never too late to learn something new or understand the things you know better! I wasn't born yesterday its true but I have kept up better than most in my field!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Aug 30, 2014 9:33:09 GMT -6
I am now working with drivers and crew chiefs and finding it easy with some to help them win still! Not many willing to bridge the gap to my world but some are building a raft while others dive right in and start swimming closer all the time! Terminology or my rapid switching as transfer takes place, seems to be my hardest barrier to overcome! Taking so much for granted after so many years of the chase for control has left me lacking in other people skills! It does however take two willing minds to get to a better point of interest! Have you ever made a right handed lap fast in your car to see what it does! It may surprise you! Other than left being higher weight, some are smoother that way! Some set-ups are almost backwards from mine in spring weights, shocks, bar angles and much more! Check your traction while packing the track, once it gets to a point of a fair test! Have you noticed this all ready that it bites better going right than left! We all have done strange things that worked different than it was should have! Like a one inch wheel spacer on the right rear loosening the car! It made it have more leverage against the poundage of the spring and may never work that way again ever! Different roll out by wider, up the track on the lip, or just more roll steer from being tighter, lowered the right side, who knows! Finding constant things and fewer of them to set with less moving parts to deal with, will help you get more control of the ones you do understand! Even a spacer gets pretty technical at times being each to its own! Finding a good middle ground that spacers don't effect much requires less track to track change that can effect so many others wrongly at times if not still in there correct spot once again!
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