Video from Road America
Video from Road America
I posted this in the road racing thread, but I thought some people might be interested who don't follow that thread...
I went to Road America this past week for the BMW CCA National Octoberfest. It's their big deal event, with concours, gymkhana, autocross, and 5 days of DE. I did the intermediate classroom.
They had a lot of cars and a lot of instructors. In the video below, I went out toward the tail of the instructor group, and there were somewhere between 60 and 80 cars out there on the 4 mile track. I think I held up the Porsche marque fairly well.
Couldn't post it all, but we went back and counted, and I passed 27 cars in 20 minutes. I just ran out of time...
http://www.youtube.com/daantzig#p/u/0/NyXXdfFHAbc
Actually, there were a few cars faster than me too. There was a couple from Virginia, where she had an X50 and he had a GT2. They were well set up for the track, and they both whipped my butt. Also a couple of cars that started life as Z06's, then moved up. A couple of M3 race cars ran about the same lap times as me - I walked them in the straights, but they caught me in the twistier parts of the track.
My best lap time was 2:33.7. It got hotter later in the day, and I was running more like 2:34-2:36 when I got a clean lap, which wasn't very often.
It was really a blast. Car ran great all weekend.
I went to Road America this past week for the BMW CCA National Octoberfest. It's their big deal event, with concours, gymkhana, autocross, and 5 days of DE. I did the intermediate classroom.
They had a lot of cars and a lot of instructors. In the video below, I went out toward the tail of the instructor group, and there were somewhere between 60 and 80 cars out there on the 4 mile track. I think I held up the Porsche marque fairly well.
Couldn't post it all, but we went back and counted, and I passed 27 cars in 20 minutes. I just ran out of time...http://www.youtube.com/daantzig#p/u/0/NyXXdfFHAbc
Actually, there were a few cars faster than me too. There was a couple from Virginia, where she had an X50 and he had a GT2. They were well set up for the track, and they both whipped my butt. Also a couple of cars that started life as Z06's, then moved up. A couple of M3 race cars ran about the same lap times as me - I walked them in the straights, but they caught me in the twistier parts of the track.
My best lap time was 2:33.7. It got hotter later in the day, and I was running more like 2:34-2:36 when I got a clean lap, which wasn't very often.
It was really a blast. Car ran great all weekend.
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Thanks for sharing.
Passing cars takes time...especially if no corner passing in DEs.
Just the same 2:33 is respectable....the more seat time on that track the better you will do.
RA is great fun.
Passing cars takes time...especially if no corner passing in DEs.
Just the same 2:33 is respectable....the more seat time on that track the better you will do.
RA is great fun.
GreggT - Thanks. I saw your lap time of 2:28 on the lap time thread. Pretty stout. I think I can gain a couple of seconds if I cinch up the sub strap a little tighter.
Not 5, though.Jon
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I didn't lay a wrench on it all weekend, except once to swap tires left and right. What a pleasure that was!
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