Don't know if it's already been posted but just picked this up over at Jalopnik. Kinda weird about the Milanos. Go figure.
http://jalopnik.com/5041103/and-the-winner-is-the-team-endurance-karting-mazda-miata
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Aug. 24, 2008 8:34 p.m. Feedyurhed New Reader
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Aug. 24, 2008 9:33 p.m. neon4891 Dork
check out the link for 10 worst cars for a blind date...it offers up a miata as an alernative to the Can-Am spyder trike
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Aug. 25, 2008 7:14 a.m. wreckerboy SuperDork
p21, car 9 (La Grande Fromage VW Jetta) includes one of our regulars, aeronca65t. I'm waiting to hear about his weekend. Hopefully he'll post here after he recovers.
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Aug. 28, 2008 10:45 a.m. Buzz Killington New Reader
those guys (in the miata) were fast and clean. they also managed a pretty heroic effort to get the thing home in first w/ no brakes and the right front wheel basically coming off the car.
for some reason, the flagger was blue-flagging them every time by...for the second place car! that's some BS. it's one thing if you're blue-flagging lap traffic; quite another if you're blue-flagging the first-place car in favor of the second-place guy.
as it was, our FX16 spit an axle w/ ~3 minutes left in the race ("DID we cotter-pin that axle nut?"), so that might have helped preserve some of the miata's 4-lap margin of victory.
the cheesy jetta was well-driven and had a good cheering section.
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Aug. 28, 2008 11:39 a.m. jikelly New Reader
But Miatas just aren't very attractive. All function if you ask me.
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Aug. 28, 2008 11:58 a.m. mistanfo Dork
As flaggers, we are taught to flag any car with another in passing position. The blue flag is considered informational only. No need to let someone pass because you get a blue flag shown to you. If you pay attention, it can help you.
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Aug. 28, 2008 12:46 p.m. GregTivo New Reader
mistanfo wrote:
As flaggers, we are taught to flag any car with another in passing position. The blue flag is considered informational only. No need to let someone pass because you get a blue flag shown to you. If you pay attention, it can help you.
kinda of an advance warning system
"warning little miata, the 2nd place car is trying to pass you. reccomend you block..."
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Aug. 28, 2008 2:11 p.m. Buzz Killington New Reader
mistanfo wrote:
As flaggers, we are taught to flag any car with another in passing position. The blue flag is considered informational only. No need to let someone pass because you get a blue flag shown to you. If you pay attention, it can help you.
gotcha. it seemed like the blue came out this weekend only for the cars that were clearly slower than the one getting set to pass.
