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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
Who gives a crap about PAX? I've never understood all the fuss. It's a made up time derived from a made up magic multiplier. It's just a form of bench racing. Racing directly against the stopwatch in class is the only thing that really counts.
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When all you have is 1-3 car classes as Reno has often had historically and currently, some sort of handicaping system like PAX was the only way to have competition other than changing cars.
And the old guard will just have to get over it IMHO.
You can't drive for 6 miutes every 3rd weekend and expect to compete with drivers that spend 20 times that maybe per month. (Though posibly under different cicumstances.) Skill and experience have value, but so does practice and vehicle preperation.
No matter what, there will always be "the car" for every class. (maybe two in rare cases) and there will always be a killer class in PAX because somebody will figure out something over the winter that will make last year's data invalid.
And yes altitude makes a difference, but not as much as having a decent F'ing car, and a dirver who knows how to drive.
Or you can try the John Evans method and get a different car every yeartrying to second guess what will be the PAX car and spend 1/2 the year or more getting the feel for it and setting it up and fail, and occasionally get your ass kicked by your co-driver in the same car because she just drives it how it is, and doesn't complain.
I personally am sick of the whining. I stick to my old saying...
Read the f'inging rule book....
Wait, wrong one....
Shut Up and Drive...