Originally Posted by
lightspeed
I have a quick question to throw out for discussion... Why is it that "spinning" is a constant reason for wanted to race from a higher speed, or is a constant excuse for loosing or making "preemptive" excuses about loosing a race? I realize there are some speeds that just dont work for some builds...like running a 10 mph roll in a big turbo car. But, 25-30 MPH should give plenty of RPM for anyone to do a first gear roll, especially a normally aspirated car with decent gearing. Yes, under full power, the car may well spin, but guess what...we dont need to use 100% throttle, full boost and/or spray every time we accelerate. There is a concept of modulating the throttle that can allow you to accelerate with less than full throttle but still accelerate well. I have to use Boris as an excuse (sorry Boris..this has been bugging me overall for a long time and this is a very good example...) I really believe that, on motor only, your car would put the power down well from a first gear roll, if you wanted to do it. Youd have plenty of RPM to make good power on motor, and I bet it would actually work well. It may spin a little still, but I bet if modulated the car would move out well. It would definately be faster than spinning wildly.
To use myself as an example, my car would sping the tires up to 80+ MPH if I ran full boost all the time. But, I either run less boost, short shift and/or modulate the throttle in an attempt to control it. It may not always be successful, but I was able to run that z06 from 30 mph rolls without spinning wildly. Im certanly not an expert at the technique, because I sometimes get a little crazy, but its possible to do.
Anyway, what are other people's take on this? it just seems nuts to me that we're all making so much power now that we will only run at our optimum performance speed. Granted, I love it when people want to race me from a 60mph beacuse I make good power and hook at that speed, but it does seem a bit crazy sometimes.
And yes, whatever speed people agree to race at is totally cool..you can start at 100 if you really want to... But, it seems like we'd see a lot more fun out there if people would "give" a little and accept that we cant always "just floor it."