Pics are up from TDR @ MSR

[Sharpie]

Yes Titus I noticed that too!

Jeff, that is f***n funny.

[Adam Payrot]

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.

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.

[Titus]

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.

Gotcha.

[jeff_man]

Yes Titus I noticed that too!

Jeff, that is f***n funny.

he pulled up to the grid behind me for run 2 and i was like NOOO!!!!!

[Titus]

he pulled up to the grid behind me for run 2 and i was like NOOO!!!!!

Shortly before I passed you (which of course was followed by you bumping me and me going off), this pic was taken.

[jeff_man]

Shortly before I passed you (which of course was followed by you bumping me and me going off), this pic was taken.

ya Steve (the instructor) told me F U TITUS

[MiataMike]

I wish they got a shot of my 4 wheel drift =-((
It was beautiful

[Sharpie]

I need to get off my ass and edit the real photos.

Well, we're waiting....

[Eccles]

I wish they got a shot of my 4 wheel drift =-((
It was beautiful

Man, you should've been out there yesterday for the regular Apex BYOC event - it rained on and off all day... driftastic!

[black roadster]

Man, you should've been out there yesterday for the regular Apex BYOC event - it rained on and off all day... driftastic!

Is this Jon?

What's up? Say hi to Joi for me.

William

[Eccles]

Is this Jon?

What's up? Say hi to Joi for me.

William

Heya, Lothar! Will do.

[Sharpie]

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?

[Eccles]

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.

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.

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!

So all up, it was a fun day. Don't get many wet track days around these parts, so it was great exercise.

[Sharpie]

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