2009 Track Day Information and Dates

[SPICcnmFD]

So how did Road Atl. go?

[Herblenny]

Brent, Sorry to hear about.. And definitely! I'll shoot you some higher res pics.. Shoot me your email to me again.. just in case..

Here are also few pics from Saturday.. which includes snap shot of Brent going off the road.. Again, sorry to see that happen..

[Brent]

Had an absolute blast for the most part at Road Atlanta. It seems like a good mix of VIR and Barber. Has the technical sections like Barber, but you can carry alot more speed like VIR. I had an instructor showing me the line and he was really pushing me and was very knowledgable, which got my legs completely back under me after Saturday's incident and pushing my car pretty hard. However, he just bought a koni challenge 996 5 days ago and was primarily concerned with getting it set up, which I didn't mind. I know what it's like to have issues with your car and he was twisting wrenches on it all day long. He gave me the feedback I needed on the track and that was really good enough. He sent another guy out with me on the last session so he could work on his car. I had been running the majority of the course in 4th gear. I would shift to 3rd for one section and I'd be in 5th on the back straight. So instead of letting me continue to build and progress my line, he made me keep it in 3rd and was talking to me like this was my first time on the track. I was going 20-30mph slower than what I had been going. He was showing me a new line, which was cool, but over revving the car in 3rd caused the water temp to start to climb. So instead of overheating the car because this guy doesn't want me in 4th, I just pitted after 15 minutes or so. I'm not going to blow a coolant seal on my last session on account of that guy.
Overall I had a blast, I just really wanted to keep pushing that last session as I only had one day to pick up as much as I could there.

I'll post a bunch more pictures later on. I'm still looking for a mov. to mpeg converter to convert my video's.

[Fritz Flynn]

Originally Posted by Brent

Had an absolute blast for the most part at Road Atlanta. It seems like a good mix of VIR and Barber. Has the technical sections like Barber, but you can carry alot more speed like VIR. I had an instructor showing me the line and he was really pushing me and was very knowledgable, which got my legs completely back under me after Saturday's incident and pushing my car pretty hard. However, he just bought a koni challenge 996 5 days ago and was primarily concerned with getting it set up, which I didn't mind. I know what it's like to have issues with your car and he was twisting wrenches on it all day long. He gave me the feedback I needed on the track and that was really good enough. He sent another guy out with me on the last session so he could work on his car. I had been running the majority of the course in 4th gear. I would shift to 3rd for one section and I'd be in 5th on the back straight. So instead of letting me continue to build and progress my line, he made me keep it in 3rd and was talking to me like this was my first time on the track. I was going 20-30mph slower than what I had been going. He was showing me a new line, which was cool, but over revving the car in 3rd caused the water temp to start to climb. So instead of overheating the car because this guy doesn't want me in 4th, I just pitted after 15 minutes or so. I'm not going to blow a coolant seal on my last session on account of that guy.
Overall I had a blast, I just really wanted to keep pushing that last session as I only had one day to pick up as much as I could there.

I'll post a bunch more pictures later on. I'm still looking for a mov. to mpeg converter to convert my video's.

Glad you had fun but most importantly glad you found your legs again

I'm sure the second instructor was just worried about getting back out of the car on his two legs after seeing that quarter panel I'm surprised he didn't make you keep it in second Seriously though not a very cool thing to do especially the last session of the day

Nice pics, too bad they don't line those walls w/ tires.

[Brent]

haha. Yeah, I understand the instructors reasoning because he doesn't know me from Adam and, as you know prob. better than anyone Fritz, I could be another one of those guys that just wants to "go fast" that ends up putting him in the hospital. I was more disappointed with my instructor because it was the last session. I felt really good on session 3 though. Man!!! I still just want to go to the track and drive some more!!!

[csprx7]

Here's a couple of shots of our SE at the Spring Jefferson TT (Summit Point, WV).






Still getting the car dialed in but there's one Miata that's tough to catch.

[Brent]

Looks like you guys had a blast this weekend too!!

Here are a few more from the weekend:
Barber:









Our Neighbors in the Paddock. Really nice people from Brentwood:

Want to a Porsche?



Rest of the pictures can be seen in my Barber Album here: http://s211.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/BarberMay09/

Road Atlanta:
Welcome to Road Atlanta:

[Brent]

As promised:

[SPICcnmFD]

Did you clip the inside curb at all before the spin? I've found out my car doesn't like that at all on that turn.

[Brent]

I don't think I did. I think it was a combo of getting the tires to hot, having a little too much air in the tires, and the driver of course. If this posts in a weird format its because I am stepping into this century and have internet on my phone.

[Fritz Flynn]

Awesome pics!

That black 997 w/ the yellow rollbar is calling to me

CPR in the driving world stands for correction, pause, recovery and there's a chance that the P was left out when you smooched that sexy Barber wall I love the calm shift into neutral when the fight is over

BTW the MB 95 is sounding SWEET!

[Brent]

I know what you mean, I keep playing around with getting a 996, 997, or a new M3. I don't think I will until I get rid of some FD's though. My instructor at Road Atlanta on Monday had a 996 Koni Challenge car. Unfortunately he had just purchased it 5 days prior and didn't have a passenger seat in it so no ride along for me.

haha... yeah, I think it'll take me a time or two more to get CPR down. Hopefully next time, but I'd really like to get some more practice on car control. I've been trying to find a skid pad/car control school but haven't had much luck. NASA mentioned possibly doing one at Road Atlanta in August. I'm hoping that actually happens as I think it would be a great investment not only from a driving perspective but also a safety perspective.

[SPICcnmFD]

You should AutoX for a year or so. That's about as good of car control as you are going to get.

From watching the video it sounds like got completely out of the throttle when it kicked a little which can upset the car a whole lot making over correcting very easy. You have to pretty much just stay in it and ride the drift out and wait for it scrub enough speed off on it's on, so that it catches slowly. Maybe that makes sense.

But everyone that tracks a car is going off sooner or later one way or another, I've just been lucky and not hit anything.

BTW found that P&P 3bar yet?

[Brent]

Yeah, makes sense. I know better, but that didn't stop me from letting out I use to AutoX a good bit back 7-8 years ago. I guess I've just been away from it too long. Plus I hate working half the day

I'm heading back to Cookeville right now and I have to ship some parts out and I REALLY need to get a short block to David today. Work took longer than expected today. I should have a chance to look for it this weekend. If not, I still have the 3 bar with the connector that you can splice in.

Here's a video from Road Atlanta on Monday, for some reason there is a 10 second delay once the video starts:

[SPICcnmFD]

Originally Posted by Brent

Yeah, makes sense. I know better, but that didn't stop me from letting out I use to AutoX a good bit back 7-8 years ago. I guess I've just been away from it too long. Plus I hate working half the day

Yeah I know what you mean I keep saying I'm going to go to one again sometime but everytime the weekend gets near I decide I don't want to stand out there all day for 5min of driving.