Ride on board with Kyle Tilley as he starts the FF1600 Feature race from the back of the grid due to a fuel leak, which would eventually cause second degree burns!
Dude that was beautiful. Late breaking, passing on the outside, super aggressive but not mean. I ran a f440 in the nineties and loved it, I’m sure you do too. God bless you and take care 🙏🏼🏎
Kyle, THAT WAS ONE FANTASTIC DRIVE!! You have OBVIOUSLY learned the secret of threshold braking!! I've never raced Road America (Damnit!), so I can't identify the corners, but I only saw two mistakes in that race... a missed shift on the 1st lap, and going too deep into that 90 degree right-hand corner where you got passed. (Was #14Todd Strong? I raced him for years out west). OK... you gave a Dynamic demonstration of how an outside line works on sweeping corners! The extra 200 revs you carry into and around the corner was the demise of many of your competitors. Ain't Formula Ford fantastic!?!? I raced a Lotus 61 (HSR-West, HMSA, CVAR, CSRG, Golden Gate Lotus Club) from 2002-2011. Lotus Sports Challenge champion with HSR-West 2013 thru 2019, 3rd in Formula Ford: the SERIES 2008 and 2nd in Formula Ford: the SERIES 2009 with HSR-West. Retired after the 2011 season, last race was the Coronado Speed Festival where I won the USS Ronald Reagan Cup! DAMN GOOD job of driving, my friend!! Carl (Nevada law enforcement EVOC instructor, HSR-West chief competition driving instructor). carlynneracing@sbcglobal.net
Frustrating. Drivers need to watch the movie Grand Prix to learn how to draft and Slip-Stream. James Garner explains it perfectly at Monza. 14:15 Sometimes in FF, to go fast and pass someone, you need the patience to go slow. Passing is a multi-move proposition. You have to set up those cars so you can jump them one after the other like in checkers. In this situation you NEED more power than the car in front of you in order to get by it. If he has his foot on the floor, and you have your foot on the floor, when you pull out to pass you will slam into the air that he was pushing out of your way, and you will not get by him. You will just match his speed. If you be patent and LIFT and stay in his draft, you will be able to lift off your throttle by 50% and go as fast as he is going. When you feel like you are being sucked into his car, you floor the gas with tha5t extra 50% of throttle and you will explode by him. When you do that, you line up the guy in front of him and start gradually lifting while still gaining ground on the car with the draft. When you feel your car being pulled toward the car ahead, you floor it and jump past him. In FF you have to do this all the time. You have to be in a draft all the time as if your life depends on it. With so little power at your disposal, you have to Make extra power and the draft and slipstream is the only way you can do it. Be patient and lift on the approach and be aggressive on the pass.
Absolutely scintillating stuff…whoda thunk FF footage could be so exciting but that was an absolute clinic…
Wow! Fun drive! Loved it
Dude that was beautiful. Late breaking, passing on the outside, super aggressive but not mean. I ran a f440 in the nineties and loved it, I’m sure you do too. God bless you and take care 🙏🏼🏎
You must have used a lot of stick'em on those tires to make them hold like that on the outside
I've never seen anyone turn into T1 from the far right like that and make it stick. Nice!
Great drive.
There weren't to many other marks other than Mk6 Titans.....lol
What an excellent drive, THAT is how it's done. You clearly know RA well but that was clean, aggressive, and well executed.
Love those outside passes in the carousel. It gives you the position and a clear shot at the kink. Awesome.
Must have a 10 hp advantage.
Looked like,at first, everyone but our guy here thought there was one more pace lap, he was passing by the dozen, lol. Jolly good show!
Kyle, THAT WAS ONE FANTASTIC DRIVE!! You have OBVIOUSLY learned the secret of threshold braking!! I've never raced Road America (Damnit!), so I can't identify the corners, but I only saw two mistakes in that race... a missed shift on the 1st lap, and going too deep into that 90 degree right-hand corner where you got passed. (Was #14Todd Strong? I raced him for years out west). OK... you gave a Dynamic demonstration of how an outside line works on sweeping corners! The extra 200 revs you carry into and around the corner was the demise of many of your competitors.
Ain't Formula Ford fantastic!?!? I raced a Lotus 61 (HSR-West, HMSA, CVAR, CSRG, Golden Gate Lotus Club) from 2002-2011. Lotus Sports Challenge champion with HSR-West 2013 thru 2019, 3rd in Formula Ford: the SERIES 2008 and 2nd in Formula Ford: the SERIES 2009 with HSR-West. Retired after the 2011 season, last race was the Coronado Speed Festival where I won the USS Ronald Reagan Cup!
DAMN GOOD job of driving, my friend!! Carl (Nevada law enforcement EVOC instructor, HSR-West chief competition driving instructor). carlynneracing@sbcglobal.net
Would probably be good to have Speed/track information next time!
I owned two Mk3 Titans, one in Sebastopol CA and one in Vancouver BC.
Great driving. Thank you for posting!
What a great drive! Thanks for sharing -
Frustrating. Drivers need to watch the movie Grand Prix to learn how to draft and Slip-Stream. James Garner explains it perfectly at Monza.
14:15 Sometimes in FF, to go fast and pass someone, you need the patience to go slow. Passing is a multi-move proposition. You have to set up those cars so you can jump them one after the other like in checkers.
In this situation you NEED more power than the car in front of you in order to get by it. If he has his foot on the floor, and you have your foot on the floor, when you pull out to pass you will slam into the air that he was pushing out of your way, and you will not get by him. You will just match his speed.
If you be patent and LIFT and stay in his draft, you will be able to lift off your throttle by 50% and go as fast as he is going. When you feel like you are being sucked into his car, you floor the gas with tha5t extra 50% of throttle and you will explode by him.
When you do that, you line up the guy in front of him and start gradually lifting while still gaining ground on the car with the draft. When you feel your car being pulled toward the car ahead, you floor it and jump past him.
In FF you have to do this all the time. You have to be in a draft all the time as if your life depends on it. With so little power at your disposal, you have to Make extra power and the draft and slipstream is the only way you can do it.
Be patient and lift on the approach and be aggressive on the pass.