[F500] The "REAL" Fmod tour event.

[James F. Libecco, MD]

Past weekend was fairly embarrasing for the F500 crew.  Jeff Blumenthal, 
Christina Libecco, and myself were the only F500 in the Fmod group, made up of 
about seven or eight other solo vee's.  Jeff was the fastest of the F5's, but 
neither car was fully up to the game.  Jeff is still trying to fight some 
random carb problem that somewhat defies logic resulting in him aborting 
several of his runs on saturday.  He came back sunday and ran within a second 
of the fast time of the day from the report I received, as I only got to run 
on Saturday secondary to work conflicts.  (Nothing like twelve+ hours drive to 
run for four minutes...hmm, finishing that SCCA license gets more appealing.)

Saturday we got spanked by Scott Nardin, who has been extremely fast in 
everything he has touched this year.  Thankfully Jeff was able to come back on 
Sunday with a little better show.  Christina was the fastest of the ladies 
classes, but big blisters on the palms from too much steering effort did her 
in.  I...just can't seem to drive.

Too bad more of you didn't make it down, it was a very fun, very fast track.  
We should have hope for nationals if Jeff can figure out why his EGT's get 
LOWER when he leans out the jet settings...I'll let him worry about explaining 
that one.

Jim-I hate overdriving and solo vee's, too-Libecco

PS Ron--you will really need to get in touch with a tire pyrometer.  A half or 
quarter degree of camber makes a huge difference in handling for both solo and 
road.  Right now it seems most are between 1.75-2.5 degrees depending on car, 
tire pressure, and driving style.