Oh Saki, please do bestow some of your transcendent 1/4 mile knowledge and eloquence, as I am but a neophyte and ignorant by comparison. :-X (Holy condescending elitist garbage).
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Nope, Hunter didn’t make excuses, YOU made ‘excuses’. (“It was hot out” “high humidity” “high DA” “he bogged” “his tires were too wide”) Here is the link to your post explaining your ‘excuses’, since you like to selectively remember things http://audirevolution.net/forum/index.php?topic=1079.msg25676#msg25676.
If that were to have been a Tial car that you were reporting on with the same performance, I have just a small feeling that your attitude and skewing might have been a little bit to the other direction, along with you calling those exact same descriptors out as ‘excuses’, instead of holding them as a simple valid explanation of the circumstances, and you would have acted like that one outing shows the limit of that setup, rather than being all ‘I’m sure that he’ll do better next time’.
[Just so we’re clear, I do indeed think those 'excuses" are valid descriptors of the track outing for Hunter, and I think that those same descriptors would be valid for any car equally. I don’t call them ‘excuses’ like you do with every car that is not a JHM car.]
Hunter was not on straight pump gas. He may have been on a pump file, but I have yet to see an Audi file to date (even pump file) that didn’t benefit from a greater octane fuel. People usually qualify their run by what gas their running, not which ‘file’; sound like just another thing to add so that someone can have their own record (which won’t likely ever be broken because you’ll likely never see anyone else qualify what the tune’s inteded gas was in their modlist.)
Other than being on a ‘pump file’, you’re still comparing a K04 car to a souped up RS6 hybrid car. You’re comparing an RS6+ car that was custom tuned tuned within the last year by one of the best in the B5 industry to an APR tuned K04 car from 2006. Mark’s avant weighed 3640lbs; have Hunter go weigh his avant the same way it is when he is at the track, and I bet he’s not much over 3700lbs, if at all. You, with your prestigious 1/4 mile knowledge, should know how negligible that weight difference is compared to the other factors.
So yeah, even though the comparison is retarded in the first place, as they are cars with completely different turbos, you seem to give a free pass to Hunter’s car when he barely tied a K04 avant’s record from over a half-decade ago, yet all other cars that run high 11’s are a joke to you because they have “bigger turbos than K04’s and still can’t get near JHM’s [11.2] K04, stock block, full interior record”. You don’t have to be bashful about it, we all know you gave Hunter’s JHM RS6-r car a free pass comparatively to other cars.