Hi Legzy! Yesterday we had a training race in 8-9 peoples of 1h and x2 fuel & tyre consumption.
I was with the Elan, but i had to fight a lot with the 2 Porsche 914 to win the race, and i had a worst best lap in race, even if I was a lot more trained than the 2 drivers in Porsche 914, that were 2 newbies of P&G...
My idea is that if a driver like Ade or Mark Jonzo, will take a car like the 914, would make a race pace probably near 1.50.5 at worst... mine pace with Elan yesterday was near a 1.51.6 (pushing hardly), very close with 2 less expert drivers, but is not comparable with mine 1.50.5 done with 80 litres on the Porsche 914, after only 9 laps... With the Elan I've done more than 120 laps.... just to tell you
Anyway two days ago i had a friendly speech with Ade, and he knows that i consider him a group D driver, because he's surely strong as me. I wait some lap times made by him, in race conditions to have an idea if I'm making wrong consideration about these 2 cars... for me Elan should remain in group D, and the 2 Cobras 289 seems really unnecessary in that group in my opinion... Maybe should be better put the Cobra 427 in group D to give it a chance of race, because it seems really a difficult car to drive...
Regarding the tyres consumption is true that the Elan is slightly better than a 914, but if you put harder tyres, as needed to finish the race in good conditions, pace would be probably higher, and it's an hard decision to take for the strategy. Yesterday with the White spot on rear i was not able to finish the race, and I had to change it after 20 laps during my pit...
Anyway the moral of this story is that if you cut the elan by group D i see no chances for people like me, Pippo and IvAlAx to fight against group C drivers like Ade, MJ, samb, and the others i forget.
I hope I have been clear in explaining. I wait for your opinions
Cu!