Green fade question

[mike kojima]

I was there, that's what happened.  You probably were
not there.  In my memory, turn one is a very fast left
hander coming off the front straight that if you have
no brakes, you will hit a tire wall very fast, its not
like you can take it anywhere close to flat out. I did
not actualy see the accident due to my position but I
heard this over the pit lane buzz.

If you have ever changed pads, then you must know that
the first application of the brakes after completly
retracting the caliper piston will result in an
extremely long pedal, if you don't touch the brake
while getting underway, you will be in for a nasty
suprise if you need the brakes at the next
application.  Why don't you try it since you don't
belive me.

In my opinion from driving other tracks, Sebring is
not that hard on brakes as many others and our car did
ok with stock brake pads.  It was not optimal but it
did ok.

Granted this was on Firestone Firehawk tires which
probably don't load the brakes as much as real soft
compound tires will.

Next time you are at Sebring, then accelerate to turn
one until your normal braking point, then simply let
off the gas without hitting the brakes and tell us
what happens, I would love to find out since it is
apparently imposible to crash like this.

Mike

--- Jim Crate <jcrate@deepskytech.com> wrote:
> While an accident may have happened, it surely did
> not happen this way.