AlanL

Pure speculation, but if you enter turn 7 early, you will find yourself facing the dragon's teeth of the jagged FIA curbing instead of a smooth turn exit heading towards turn 8. To get back on the line, you then have to adjust your steering to do more of a right turn to get back around the apex of 8 instead of the quick flick you are more used to followed by a quick left to get lined up for 9. In the wet this initiates a lot more weight transfer and can be quite disastrous once you hit the oily patches between 8 and 9 where the old gas station used to be when the track locale was the city of Vanport.

That patch of track is one of the most dangerous places at PIR in the wet and needs to be treated with the utmost caution. The normal good line coming out of 7 gets pretty slick and can leave you in the same place as an early apex if you don't make a point of getting wider and later in your apex at 7. The line I watched you use coming through 7 in the downpour we ran in prior to that was pretty good and you properly straddled the concrete line instead of following it which could lead to enough steering push to leave you in the same place as an early apex.

If the group that followed started thinking it was drying out, they could have been suckered into trying the dry line through that stretch.

FTL

You think the Diff is still good? I'd like to stock them for Ray, Jerry, etc.

Russ