Hi all. Whenever you hear people talk about racing and racing cars, no matter how or where they begin that conversation, somehow always that zero-to-sixty topic comes up ... But not with us, not the GPRT and definitely not when we're talking about GPL. Ever since I've made the decision to take this Grand Prix Legends thing seriously my mind has been on just one goal: getting from X to zero. For the people I've lost already: search the site for GPL Ranking and you'll find a nice description that principle (and to those same people: shame on you! :-) Somehow I seem to be caught up in a new type of racing; the run towards that zero line. Both Bas and I have made great progress in the last couple of weeks and it seems that now the parking brakes have been taken off and we're just thundering through to that zero line. Okay okay, maybe not thundering ... but it is getting rather windy out there :-) Almost every day now there are changes in our GPL Ranking and we're pushing each other to new limits we could only dream of not that long ago. It also seems we are getting better and better at that whole GPL thing. Last weekend for example. We were doing our Ring training laps and since my time there was sufficient to keep Bas occupied the next couple of days (whaha, sorry chap, I just couldn't resist it) I decided to do some work on my Monsterranking and took the Honda out for a spin. For me the tactics work like this: you look at the ranking, pick out the highest time, choose the car that goes with that time and step on it. The first thing I noticed when I gave that white whale some throttle was the 'new' Honda sound I had. Somehow I must have been experimenting with it and forgotten about it. I don't drive that Honda that much you know. Oh well, it sounded kind of screamy and I just went with it. Second thing I noticed when I hit the track was that the car seemed to 'stick like peanut butter on the roof of your mouth' (my favorite Porsche 911 Turbo advertising quote) ... man I could do just about anything with that car and it still wouldn't slide. Now I have had that feeling before but that was when not driving very very fast. The slower, or more controlled, you drive the car the better you seem to be able to keep it on the road. It's funny how that works ... *grin* This is usually the case when I drive the BRM across the Ring for example. However not this time. I'm not sure anymore what the pitboard guy wrote down the first time I passed the start/finish line but when I did another lap it read eight minutes and thirty seconds! I almost missed my breaking point when reading it. To give you an idea on why I was this surprised: The Lotus is the only car I'm faster with on the Ring! This was simply ridiculous! Outrageous even! I mean ... with a Honda for crying out loud ... Bottom line: my Monsterranking went down a whopping fifty seven seconds! So that's how you do it folks. You set a time when you first begin GPL and when you're getting nearer the benchmark time with the fastest car you come back for an afternoon and completely destroy your old, slower, time :-) It's just that easy folks, nothing to it.