Most liked posts in thread: April 10, 2011 - Streets of Willow Racing Noon to Night!

A discount code? Damn it! Free T-Shirt? Damn it! Anyways, Had a blast, thanks for the ride along. It definitley got me int he 1:30's club with my blistering 1:39.89 (ok barely). I think some dedicated tires might be on my to do list.

 

Good to see all you guys out there running hard. Didn't get to ride with the infamous "Redbeard" this event, but did get a couple sessions where I think he was chasing us... :eek6:

But never caught us? :devil:

Shall we stay tuned for the May event for a re-match? :ihih: (Sorry, forgot the member's screen name that I rode with yesterday). But, we had a blast. At least I did. Not sure if he's still the same. But, I am confident his times dropped. We did quite well, IMHO.


Good stuff! Bummer about the windscreen. But, it gives the car character.

I will try and get out and chase you around in my own car next event. Though the way you are lapping now, you would likely run me right down, as I have gone back to street tires. And as we all know, there is nothing more embarassing than a 500hp Mustang Cobra being passed by a stock Cooper. Hmmm. Maybe I will just sit and watch your sessions from the safety of the pit wall. :nonod:

 

If you don't have video of the pass, it didn't happen! Hahaa

I didn't notice it being any more slippery than usual, but I didn't have my hands on the controls.

Most people lift or brake going into the S's, which is what we were working on. Once you are over the blind hump people get in trouble by "over driving" te section, upsetting the balance.

If brave and on the correct line, you can go straight through the entry all the way down to the slight left without steering input. No brakes 'till you are straight and deep into it just before that sharp left at the bottom.

But it takes confidence + a big set of stones!

I never got to see your line... You have any vids to post up?

 

Argh.

 

I completely understand. We all leave something on the table unless wanting to go home on a flatbed or gurney.

Yup, tricky section. .500 a lap or so variance on different dates is good for a street car. Most don't get that from session to session!

I'll urge the Admin to process you ASAP since you sound spicy enough to fit in there Lol.

Posting from Crackberry, so forgive the double posts (can't delete?) and such.

 

No one shot any vids?

 

Not Mini - but here is some stuff shot in my car, if you are interested in seeing what the action looked like. I had a ride-along, and we had a 427 Cobra spin in front of us. :crazy:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/user/Tetge#p/a/u/1/VY5pZ7TgKB0]YouTube - Tetge's Channel[/ame]

 

Good vid. Thanks. The cones at the back of turn one were weird. I've never seen anyone lay them out like that before.

 

This is my favorite part of SOW when it is CW/w the bowl. Before going into the S's, line yourself up with the white tower off in the distance as you come up the blind hump and you will be perfectly lined up to shoot straight through the S's and then brake brake hard after the last S to slow enough to take the hard left. It is truly a white knuckler, but a lot of fun.

 

Oh really? How funny. I was watching my mirrors, worried someone might run up on me while I slowed to clear the spin.

You see me fighting my way around? I have the fattest, yet most useless pair of rear tires ever! Lol!

 

I didn't want to say anything, but in the video it does look like the car is pushing pretty badly in the turns.

 

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Naaaa, it is a handful. Especially for this event as I went with an oddball cheapo tire combo.

That, on top of the car having completely stock suspension. It hasn't even had an agressive front end alignment. So, yes. It plows and then will hang the rear end out at will. So it's a mixed bag of tricks.

I usually run 315's on all four corners at the track, and I can get around OK. I just finished killing a nice set of 275 / 315 Victoracers (pictured, top) and in the interest of saving money and endless tire swaps, I was running a set of 275 Sumitomo II's on front and some old stock Michellin Pilots out back. Even being an insane 335 width, they hooked up like 10 speed tires, spinning up at the top of second at well over 70 mph. That set is pictured below as it was run in the video in case you were curious what the video car looks like.

You can hear the car spinning up, even coming onto the front straight short shifting it. Looks and sounds impressive, but it gets you no where fast.