PedalFaster
Member
- First Name
- Steve
- Joined
- Jun 11, 2018
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- 31
- Location
- Calgary, Canada
- Vehicle(s)
- Whatever people will let me drive
Collection of related anecdotal data:
We were gridded next to Lance Keeley (the guy who won) and Sam Karp at Nationals. On Wednesday, it was about 70 degrees when we ran. My codriver and I were busy spraying our front Bridgestones after our first runs, but Lance and Sam had blankets on their BFGs. Lance is a better driver than I am, but my first and second runs were each a half second faster than Lance's. On his third run, Lance sped up by 1.3 seconds and blew us all away. I'm sure some of that was because he just executed better, but he also attributed at least some of it to the BFGs coming up to temperature. That's with two drivers, but also over a long (1:45-2:00-long) heat.
Personally, I'm hesitant to run BFGs because I don't want to throw away runs in cool temperatures due the tires not working.
We were gridded next to Lance Keeley (the guy who won) and Sam Karp at Nationals. On Wednesday, it was about 70 degrees when we ran. My codriver and I were busy spraying our front Bridgestones after our first runs, but Lance and Sam had blankets on their BFGs. Lance is a better driver than I am, but my first and second runs were each a half second faster than Lance's. On his third run, Lance sped up by 1.3 seconds and blew us all away. I'm sure some of that was because he just executed better, but he also attributed at least some of it to the BFGs coming up to temperature. That's with two drivers, but also over a long (1:45-2:00-long) heat.
Personally, I'm hesitant to run BFGs because I don't want to throw away runs in cool temperatures due the tires not working.
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