some in car vid from an open track day Friday, been awhile, thought I would drop by... Options

[byndbad914]

Took some video of an open track day this last Friday. There are three of my most consistent, fastest laps to date, all in the 1:55s. I ran one 1:55 the last time I went out with consistent 1:57s after I put some old radials I had laying around on the car from a couple years back, so I got the most out of them the last track day. This time they held on for about 4 laps in the morning, and then just got greasier and greasier as the track and the day warmed up.

So I have three clean laps back to back at the beginning, a slightly slower overall time lap as the fourth but there was some neat traffic so I left it in and it was my fastest shot down the bobsled to hell and sliding back up the hill, then some footage of traffic to see some cars, general bloopers and random chaos.

And then I realized upon editing that I left the camera on when I finished, so I got a bunch of footage of various folks coming up and asking questions, talking about the car when they thought I couldn't hear which is always funny, but I threw in one snippet of a corner worker that worked down in that area I would go sliding through and the open wheeler spins.

The springs are getting stiff enough that I know I have to get the right camber set on the car, some new radials, then monkey with tire pressures. I suspect that I am in the "1/2 psi makes a big difference" spring rate range.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg8SkOZVLBs

[byndbad914]

Got a chance to edit video over the weekend so there are two new vids up on YouTube. Here is my channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/byndbad914?feature=mhee

can check out the first one which is just the fast laps but I mixed in-car footage with footage my cousin Dylan shot from the flag tower, then there is one with Dylan in the passenger seat and it also has the fast laps but in-car footage only.

Randal - I saw some footage of the Cascade run on YouTube by a guy in a 510, that looks to be a cool run. Do they always set up cones and make people do a slalom about half way through the run? Same guy ran the Medford track and it looks really tiny, holy crap. He ran it in one gear and only shifted to 2nd for the short straight. It is sort of a like an AX course but with an actual track and not the cones.

[Randal]

Got a chance to edit video over the weekend so there are two new vids up on YouTube. Here is my channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/byndbad914?feature=mhee

can check out the first one which is just the fast laps but I mixed in-car footage with footage my cousin Dylan shot from the flag tower, then there is one with Dylan in the passenger seat and it also has the fast laps but in-car footage only.

Randal - I saw some footage of the Cascade run on YouTube by a guy in a 510, that looks to be a cool run. Do they always set up cones and make people do a slalom about half way through the run? Same guy ran the Medford track and it looks really tiny, holy crap. He ran it in one gear and only shifted to 2nd for the short straight. It is sort of a like an AX course but with an actual track and not the cones.

That is such a cool video, yours I mean. Nice smooth and fast driving. I would really like to see that car at Cascade. Wow, would that be fun.

Here is my early morning run up Cascade this year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfwSBy8B7a8
When we got to the hill in the morning it was snowing, so when I ran (11:30AM) the air was still +/- 50 degrees and the asphalt not much warmer. I was tentative as I didn't really know if the car would grip or not.

There are two slalom in the course. The first is set up to slow folks down before turn 4. I am at the top of 4th entering that first slalom, close to 100mph. Now 100mph isn't all that fast on the track -but it feels pretty fast right there.

FYI that run took 3 seconds of the SPU record for the hill.

I bettered that run on Sunday PM (nice warm day) by a second with two major errors. Couldn't get the car to up-shift from 1st into 2nd leaving the line (linkage had gotten out of adjustment) and, trying to make up time, went into the first slalom flat out and just couldn't get everything done without scrubbing some speed. Wish I had a video of the run following that first slalom, as I was comfortable and the car was sticking. That run ended up being within a second and a bit of the Z06's.

Sonny Smith (TTOD) came up to me after that last run and couldn't believe the time, given how long I had taken to get the car into second. Compliments from competitors are the best.

The second slalom is there for the same reason, i.e., averting offs in the wrong places at high speeds. While It would be fun to run the hill without them, any driving mistake (or mechanical) going into 4 - or the last corner before the finish, would be pretty ugly. Think the organizers have it right.