So just how much extra performance do those expensive front Penske shocks being to FV's?
I spoke to B Farnham, the winner mentioned above, and he thought it cost him .5-1.0 sec per lap. You can kind of see when it happened if you look race time sheet. Maybe around 5 laps to go. It is not perfectly clear about the delta because the other lead cars also fell off at this same time. 1 sec per lap represents a .7% loss in lap time performance.
So, as some of you like to say, track performance is the true measure of things. Then how do you justify the great expense of the Penske shocks? Now some are going to claim a great improvement when you first put them on, but was that really caused by the Penske shock? Or is this just in your head.... spent the money and it has to make a difference.
It is hard to refute what is being demonstrated by the Farnham result. And NO, his performance and that of his car were not the best during the race. Andrew Whitston was generally turning laps .75-1.0 sec faster during the race. So no unusual performance on the part of Farnham, just mistake free.
Brian