Relative speed

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I remember a FB post of Yeoman taking his car to VSC for the engine and set up for sno drift this year.

In rally terms Block 2 sec a mile isnt that far off from the leaders. Its apples and oranges i know but if Block were at the last Nascar race Martinsville he would be over 31 laps down! Thats pretty damn slow!

2.2 seconds a km is 3.56 second per mile

The real Dubya Arsey guys have gaps like 0,21 s/km

http://www.ewrc-results.com/results.php?e=13902&s=64843&t=RallyRACC-Catalunya-Costa-Daurada-2014

Or 0,08 s/km over 26.59km or 0.13 s/mile over 16.48 miles


Compare Block's 1.92 s/km and you see the difference between a real Dubya Arsey contender and a "Gentleman Driver" just buying a ride and nowhere considered even half seriously.

Don't know why but this whole year there has been no comments nearly on (suddenly) Russian driver Urlichich Leonid sometimes known as Crazy Leo in his adventures in Canajian Rally Champ-peenship...and down here sometimes doing RELATIVELY good 3rds OA and around there..

But when there are lots of people with cars as good as he has---

9-10 seconds/km ( 15.58 s/mi to 16.2 s/mile) slower than the real drivers, and 5.8 seconds/mile slower than the best in the same class.

Says something about the role of the CAR I think: with a killer uber-spensive high HP monster---good OA results...
Without the car being head and shoulders better than all but one or 2 others, nothing.. Zip..

That's all due to lack of recce experience.