Matt Romanowski

I'm not sure if folks here know Evan or have heard of him, but he's a great young driver from NH. He raced TA2 last year and has driven a ton of cars. He posted this video of Sebring from this week and I thought it was worth sharing. It's him in a 991.2 Cup. He's driven a pretty wild 951 a lot as well.

paradocs98

Boy does that look busy! I can’t imagine how exhausting a 2-hr stint would be at Sebring. Makes my track driving look like a Sunday stroll, which is exactly what it is compared to the pros.

zbomb

Effin 11.5 at Thompson in a Turbo 944 too...absurd.

M13S

I've known Evan for several years, he's a fine young man, comes from a great family, and is a solid driver.

FYI- That 944 is boosted like crazy and it's a quick time.

LuigiVampa

Crazy amount of wheel movement, especially at T1.

Veloce Raptor

For real!!

MSR Racer

A fast way to go slow

9114609048

Looks fast, but I don't think it's very efficient and would be very difficult to sustain fast laps during a 12hr.

In my opinion, this is the way to drive Sebring:

flatsics

wtf

M13S

It's his first weekend in a cup car ffs.

ProCoach

And you should know, you won the 12 Hours overall in 1977!

Jim Pace won GTU at Daytona in 1990, won Daytona overall and Sebring six weeks later overall in 1996!

Evan is coming from first a Spec Racer Ford, then a TA2 background, so there’s that. I do think of those cars as more meat cleaver than the Cup’s scalpel-like properties. Style may be a holdover.

Veloce Raptor

Always wonderful to watch Jim drive!!!

Matt Romanowski

There's only 47 years in there....

EvanSlater

Thanks Matt for sharing my video! I had to make a rennlist account to back myself up with some information.

Firstly, this was a qualifying lap. I had 2 laps to get a fast time, then I was going to pit anyways. Of course if I spent more time on the track I could have been more precise, but I needed to get a full push lap as early as possible. With this lap we qualified 3rd only behind 2 lmp3 cars, out of 45 cars on track, many that had a capacity to run this pace.

Second, and more importantly, the car was not in its 100% form. The right rear shock was blown, and 2 others were leaking fluid. This clearly would cause the car to be unpredictable over the bumps, and cause you to need to be aggressive on the wheel. If you look at my Instagram post about it, where I slowed down the footage, it clearly shows the steering wheel moving around in direct accordance to the bumps. I simply had to be aggressive on the steering to stop the rear coming around as the car bounces around.

To everyone saying smooth is fast, I sometimes agree, but in this case the don’t. My philosophy is fast is using 100% of the tire in the entry, middle, and exit. When you are at the limit of the tire, in a car without a perfect setup, something is going to act up. In this case when using all the available tire, the rear wanted to step out on exit, and having to counter steer is just a sign that you are driving at the limit in a loose car. All drivers, drive in a different way, and this is my style. It has proven to work for me so far, so I won’t be changing it in order to look smoother for my YouTube audience…

MSR Racer

Makes sense. It didn't look like you had a 'good car ' car underneath you. Good job. Track videos are always fun to watch!