robbholland
Robb Holland
robbholland
Pro Race Car driver, former Pikes Peak Hillclimb record holder, 1st American to compete in the FIA World Touring Car Championships, British Touring Car Championships

Depending on the speed, two to two and half cars lengths is where you'll start seeing a significant benefit. However at really high speeds, say Dottinger hohe at the Nurburgring, you can start getting a draft from several car lengths back Read more

Oh and by the way this is Touring Car racing with the best drivers in the world at this style of racing. Passing is not as easy as you make it sound. So getting a good starting position is key. Read more

Actually some of the drivers had already set a time. Namely the two Chevy's in the front of that group. They were already sitting P1 and P2 so they had no real desire to pick up the pace. Tom Coronel (whose video you posted) was one of the few who didn't set a time and was the one who did jump at the very end (but a Read more

Nope. It wouldn't be aerodynamic enough. Can't have all my competition drafting off of it. Read more

It absolutely is embarrassing Mike. Trust me every and any one of those drivers wants to be out there at 10/10th. But trust me again on this one, if I were to tow an opposing teams driver around the track and that allowed them to take pole position away from my team, I'd be looking for another job before I made it Read more

Actually it doesn't work that way. See we have these things called mirrors and can see another car trying to do just as you describe. You try to sneak by and we are just going to jump in your draft and let you pull us around. Read more

Don't forget Michael I'm a (so called) Touring Car driver. You being within a half a second of me just means that you're that much closer for me to punt you into the next gravel trap. ;) Read more

Well that's cool 'cause Randy's got me by at least an inch. Don't tell him that you like me better though, he'll just get jealous. He's already mad that I'm out here racing in the VLN and he's not Read more

You mean like this?

Thanks buddy. I've got a better idea. You should come out to the 'ring and hang with me.... Read more

Yup you're not wrong but we're also not comparing apples to apples here. Couple of things to note: Read more

I like how you just white washed over the whole thing Read more

Sorry guys we lost the transmission while in the lead..... we're done. Thanks to all of you who followed. We'll be back next year to try to win this thing. Read more