2009 Track Day Information and Dates

[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.