Fritz vs the Viper Club, In car video |
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Fritz vs the Viper Club, In car video |
nine14cats |
Apr 2 2006, 09:37 PM
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Bill Pickering -- 914-6 GT aka....Leeloo Group: Members Posts: 2,618 Joined: 10-February 03 From: Campbell, CA Member No.: 287 Region Association: None |
This past Friday I ran a benefit event with the Viper Club at Buttonwillow. I haven't driven Buttonwillow in 2 years and the surface was really pot holed up. But even with intermittent showers we didn't lose any track time. 3 run groups with the advanced run group consisting of the Viper and Panoz GT2 cars practicing for the Viper Days race event this weekend.
Fritz did great against the Vipers. Let's put it this way, he likes to eat snake! Despite giving up 200HP we put in a good showing for the Porsche name. Since I was carving up the 2 run groups I was allowed to run with all day long, the last two sesions of the day I was allowed to run with the Viper GT2 group, which included the Archer Bros Race cars. Them cars are FAST! I was equally impressed with the Panoz. They really sit down well on the track and can fly. Here's a lap around Buttonwillow with Fritz. Same lap, but two links. One higher res, one lower res for dial up. We ran Counter Clockwise. BW Lap with Fritz -- 19MB BW Lap with Fritz -- 4MB Bill P. |
nine14cats |
Apr 3 2006, 10:15 AM
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Bill Pickering -- 914-6 GT aka....Leeloo Group: Members Posts: 2,618 Joined: 10-February 03 From: Campbell, CA Member No.: 287 Region Association: None |
One thing I did notice about this chapter of the Viper club is that they run it pretty loose. The morning driver's meeting went over flags but they did not review grid, passing zones, track ingress and egress, etc., until we brought it up as they were letting everyone get into their cars.
And I wasn't used to the number of cars going off course. Must have been 20+ 4 wheel excursions (mostly Vipers and Vettes, the Suby guys did pretty well staying on pavement). And this was a memorial event for a Viper guy killed in a race. That's why you'll see that in the videos I would show Fritz in the mirrors and then stay out of the way in case someone lost it. The pro run group was a different story...that was fun...it's too bad I ran out of battery on my camera... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif) Bill P. |