Reply With QuoteIt's in the schedule I posted...
Tech is either tonight from 6-8pm or tomorrow opening at 6:30.
7:00 AM 7:45 AM 0:45 Track Drive/Walk Around: Meet at Grid: Mandatory for Groups A, B & Comp License Students
What time are we supposed to be there for tech and driver meeting?
TXMC: Drinkin, shootin, racin!
It's in the schedule I posted...
Tech is either tonight from 6-8pm or tomorrow opening at 6:30.
7:00 AM 7:45 AM 0:45 Track Drive/Walk Around: Meet at Grid: Mandatory for Groups A, B & Comp License Students
Here's a video from yesterday.
I edited out the part where I let the Miatas pass me(you can imagine my relief to find out that one of them was an LS2 car
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Last edited by goofygrin; 03-15-2010 at 08:53 AM.
Good weekend! Car felt good. Track got a little looser as the day progressed. My best for the weekend was on Saturday a 1:22.7 setting a new TTA track record for NASA! I will work on video later. Sunday I ran a 1:22.9. Now I need sleep.
M3 is always the answer.
I need to get in on some TT action sooner rather than later - looked like y'all were having a great time out there!
Congratulations on the record.Originally Posted by ken o
On the track, I am fearless.
If you were as slow as me, you wouldn't be afraid either.
1994 M Edition
CSP 67
I had fun aside from the break melt-down in the last session. I'm looking forward to getting this car moving around the track.
TXMC: Drinkin, shootin, racin!
Congrats on the record, Ken!
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
"Fun" start to the 1st TT session:
Most of the rest of the session (with my fastest time of the weekend, 1:26.3 -- only 4 seconds behind ken!
My Big Bend line
I don't know if this works for heavier, faster, all-wheel-drive cars, but I found that an early apex at Big Bend gets me a bit more inside grip due to a slight trough in the asphalt. I can get on the gas sooner that way, but, my car is slow and light.
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I noticed a lot of cars taking that line. When Ken rode with me he told me to take a more outside line. When I had an instructor (ages ago) he told me to hold and late apex it.
In any case, I had to pussy foot around with it all weekend in left hand turns because mid corner the fuel tank would slosh and my car would sputter and damn near die from fuel starvation.
ETA: thanks for helping :) I always have to remind myself that there is a TOOOOON of room on the track out of big bend.
You should carry extra fuel in the back seat then.
Well Ken would know better than I, and your car is closer to his than mine.
lol, I was trying to be the lone Evo that didn't spill some sort of fluid on the track this weekend.
(actually only three dumped something, 1 dumped oil and transfer case goo and two others dumped oil -- it was tense in the evo paddock after they shut the track down on the second dousing).
and the EVO fire.
M3 is always the answer.
I was gravitating more toward the "inside line" as the day went on as well. Like Nails said, I think it's a function of a slower car - the late apex wouldn't have done anything for me except add to the distance traveled.
Well the one car I was following a lot (a vette of some flavor) was constantly going in on that low line. Looking at some of the other footage when the did that they would leap ahead of me (likely because I was overbraking) but by exit I was catching back up. My times were a couple seconds faster than them though, so who knows.
ETA: I'll say it again, street tires suck. lol.
Ken (or anyone else for that matter) did you get any good video? I'd like to compare what you were doing.
Anyone know how the LS Miata lost a wheel?
I would guess the 'vette was taking the low line but coasting through a lot of it, which would negate the advantage of the shorter line. If you have a gutless car like I do you just keep it pinned all the way through with no problem
What do you do if you have a gutless driver?
<--- here's lookin' at you kid!
I don't have video from the session with the 1:22.7. But I do for the 1:22.9. I will try to upload it tonight.
M3 is always the answer.
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