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Titus loses the track.
http://hart-photography.com/photocar...ewImage=220327
I need to get off my ass and edit the real photos.
god my "track" wheels are ugly:
http://hart-photography.com/photocar...ewImage=220457
Was that you I was following up 35W, you exited at 407. Do you live near Argyle? I am in Argyle.
rob76turbo
Red 92 NA
too much power...lol. There is a lot of throttle steering on that track. :burnrubr:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharpie
That would have been worthy of framing if I had the bronze wheels on. :cry:
Must have been someone else. I live in Denton and took 35W up to Loop 288.Quote:
Originally Posted by rob76turbo
Were you the red NA that flew by everyone in the 3rd session of the Intermediate A group. If so, you are SMOKIN fast!
I was in Intermediate B. The car I followed up 35W was a Silver NB, no rollbar.
I was in that car (As a passenger) My instructor was Dennis and yeah he was flying through there. We started that session late and ended early; but not before he lapped 3 cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharpie
mr brg...........I was in a silver NB (#4), I think you were behind me for a while in the fourth session, I think your 'throttle steering' episode occured while you were behind me.......hope I wasn't holding you up, you were faster on some parts of the track than I was and vice versa, if you were cussing in your helmet I apoligize....Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brg
There's a shot of me behind you, going into that fateful turn in the 3rd session ::Clown::Quote:
Originally Posted by VFR750
yea, I saw it..........if you hadn't decided to mow the grass I would have waved you by on the next straight...........;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam Payrot
also I had a little 'power oversteer' also......yea right:rolleyes:
http://www.hart-photography.com/phot...ewImage=220316
You were just showing off for the camera ;)
I think you and I were bottle necked up around another car. Nah, I wasn't mad at all, you were never in my way. The car looks a lot more out of shape than it felt. I was more upset that I came out of rattle snake too hot to set up a pass before little bend.Quote:
Originally Posted by VFR750
Grrrr. Anyone else notice how the sets have no connection to time? It is like all of the pics were mixed up and randomly thrown into sets, as every set contains pictures from both morning and afternoon sessions. I also noticed that there are pics of my 180 in a few different sets, implying different incidents when I actually only hooked it the one time. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam Payrot
::Clown:: Sure it was only once ::Drive1::Quote:
Originally Posted by Titus
They're mixed up because he had to switch cards, I imagine that he had 1 or 2 for each session. The camera(s) is/are probably set to reset the file # with each new card.
I'm not so sure... look at this picture from set 7 and this picture from set 3. The seem to be just a split second apart as the camera sweeps to the right. Not enough time to change cards or cameras, but they are in different sets far away from each other. There is a similar series featuring pics from Set 6, Set 3, Set 2, and Set 7. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam Payrot
And this is not why he went off for the record
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h7...f2aff55e7c.jpg
Yes Titus I noticed that too!
Jeff, that is f***n funny.
I should have elaborated. Let's say the file system is File0001, File0002, etc etc. Every card would have a File0001, etc etc. When you upload them to a gallery like this (I run software like this for my site), it will rename the files, most of the time at random unless you specify.Quote:
Originally Posted by Titus
Gotcha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam Payrot
he pulled up to the grid behind me for run 2 and i was like NOOO!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharpie
Shortly before I passed you (which of course was followed by you bumping me and me going off), this pic was taken. ::Banana::Quote:
Originally Posted by jeff_man
ya Steve (the instructor) told me F U TITUS ::EvilBanaQuote:
Originally Posted by Titus
I wish they got a shot of my 4 wheel drift =-((
It was beautiful
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Originally Posted by TheChadVIII
:confused: Well, we're waiting....;)
Man, you should've been out there yesterday for the regular Apex BYOC event - it rained on and off all day... driftastic!Quote:
Originally Posted by MiataMike
Is this Jon?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eccles
What's up? Say hi to Joi for me.
William
Heya, Lothar! Will do.Quote:
Originally Posted by black roadster
So how was it to drive up and back in one day? Did you have fun in the instructors group? Did you just instruct miatas or did you ride in other cars?
Eh, I wimped out and drove up the night before - I must be getting old; the thought of a 5am start no longer thrills me. Stayed at the Motel 6 in Benbrook Friday night and just drove the last few miles to MSR in the morning. Drove back that evening though - no problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharpie
The instructors group was a hoot. With rain on and off all day, the track was slicker than owl sh!t the whole time - in fact, it got worse as the day wore on; at the start of the day I only needed to change my line through Big and Little Bends, but by the afternoon, it was the full wet line around the outside of Wagon Wheel, Ricochet, Buzzard Neck, and Horseshoe, plus an exaggerated zig-zag through Rattlesnake, in an attempt to find grip where the surface hasn't been worn smooth.
Keith (one of the MSR honchos) looped his orange Lamborghini in front of me on the exit of Horseshoe on one lap. Fortunately I was half expecting it after seeing him get it all out of shape in Little Bend after passing me on the straight. Guess he had the stability control turned off. :drive:
Little Bend was treacherous all day, with lots of offs in all groups. There was also a river across the track just before Tombstone; of course in a Miata that whole sequence from Horseshoe to the back straight is one long sweeper, so hitting the river "mid corner" meant the whole car just stepped several feet to the right through Tombstone. Four-wheel drifting through Big Bend at around 70 can introduce some pucker-factor, too! Proud to say that despite getting it all out of shape a few times, I never came close to looping it, though I did drop two off the exit of Buzzard Neck one time (with chief instructor Daryn riding shotgun!).
I instructed one student through the whole day; he was one of a corporate group of five or six guys that were driving the Mazda 6 "school cars" that are based at the track. Gotta say, the ABS and DSC in those things probably meant there were a lot less off-track excursions than there might otherwise have been. My guy improved throughout the day, but I think the highlight of his day was riding shotgun in the Miata during the last instructor session. He got noticeably faster in his last session after that! :D
So all up, it was a fun day. Don't get many wet track days around these parts, so it was great exercise.
Great write up! Thanks! Hope you get to do it more often. Next time, Joi doesn't get to monopolize all your time and help me get faster :-)