DE at Thunderhill on Friday, good stuff! Options

[Trekkor]

Well, I'm home a day late. More on that later (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/dry.gif)

The weather held up nice all day except for about 15 minutes in the afternoon.
It rained for about ten minutes toward the end of one of my sessions. I stayed out on the track tires ( no tread ) until it started loosing grip. As soon as I came in it started hailing. This caused all drivers to come off immediately.

That was it! Dry conditions all day. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/boldblue.gif)

After that rain I put my street tires on expecting more rain.
Nope. No more, so I put the slicks back on for the rest of the sessions.

On the final open session, I broke my throttle cable on the first lap as I was approaching turn 8. This turn is very fast with no where to hide. Because I was parked right in the run off zone the course went full black flag.
End of day...

My best lap was 2:23.
Last time I ran here my best was 2:30 something.
Point of reference: the session I ran on street tires yielded a best lap time of 2:36.
13 seconds!!

Video coming.


KT

[DanT]

Turn 7 flat to the floor both directions.
Turn 9 CC direction....4th gear up the hill, if you did turn 8 correctly.
Quick stab of the brakes and downshift to 3rd. Late turn in and back on the gas before the apex. The incline of the hill slows you down so you don't have to brake as much as you think.....
Once you hit the apex and crest the hill you look for the water tank across on the other hill on the other side of the track. Aim you car at the water tower and you won't have the tendency to want to put the car to the right...the track actually goes a little more left there than most think and you might end up going 2 wheels off on the right if you don't look for the silver water tank.