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Sadly, I only got video of the practice session which was in the day. I forgot to stop the camera so the battery ran out and the memory card filled up. :v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9dOO2WzLIQ Yay, deep puddles. Some highlights: 2:24 - Get passed by a little yellow bee and a turbo dodge neon 3:38 - Audi R8 ALMS passes. Holy poo poo this car sounds amazing in person. 5:03 - Orange BMW blast past with another yellow bee trying to draft him 5:28 - Turbo Dodge Omni passes on the inside.
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# ? Sep 10, 2012 01:58 |
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Cool video, that track looks pretty sketchy with the puddles and all. The mirror mounting blocks a lot of the view I'm heading to Buttonwillow on Saturday 9/22 with Speedventures: http://www.speedventures.com/events/eventdetail.aspx?id=386 I need to finish the E30 by then
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# ? Sep 10, 2012 05:16 |
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aventari posted:Cool video, that track looks pretty sketchy with the puddles and all. The mirror mounting blocks a lot of the view Yea, on my out lap I didn't realize how deep those puddles were and the car sorta surfed. I couldn't get any heat into the tires or brakes. Still learned a bunch though. Get that E30 done! I hate missing events for poo poo like the car not being ready.
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# ? Sep 10, 2012 17:51 |
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So I just finished the first of three days at the Mid-Ohio school and I had a god-damned blast! It was mostly autocross and car-control drills with an hour lead-follow session on the track at the end of the day. I kicked rear end in the autocross challenge at the end of the day, FTD in the TSX and FTD in the S2000 (top 3 in TSX went on to the S2000), but managed to nail a cone, dropping me two seconds and putting me in second place. This is a big deal, because if I hadn't hit that cone I would have gotten a gift certificate for another event at the school, about $900 value. God drat. Still, after the lead-follow on the track I am more psyched than ever for the actual lapping sessions to come. Oh, someone mentioned not getting seat-time with instructors. They were all very helpful and only too happy to hop in the car with me as a passenger or driver. I owe that to dropping seconds off my autocross times. If I get seat time with them on the track it'll be a huge help I'm sure.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 00:19 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qxno1axFx4 Another reason to practice getting the gently caress out of your car in an emergency.
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# ? Sep 19, 2012 03:13 |
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This past weekend my team and I did our 6th 24h of Lemons race and had our best ever finish at 13th out of 161 starters at Thunderhill. We were running as high as 6th, and started day two in the top ten (I got to line up and start at the front of the pack). A little better attention to detail on the car and less gently caress ups and we could be contending next race. The car looks intimidating when approaching from behind (shot from Eyesore Racing's rear bumper). Looks somewhat less bad rear end racing a minivan
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# ? Sep 19, 2012 07:40 |
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wow awesome shots, your team must have good chemistry if you've done 6 races together.
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# ? Sep 19, 2012 08:22 |
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Well done!
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# ? Sep 19, 2012 12:54 |
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aventari posted:wow awesome shots, your team must have good chemistry if you've done 6 races together. Well, we're all responsible, reasonable adults who all contribute where we can. It's not that hard! We're now talking about the next one we'll run, and we have a mind to do the true 24h at Buttonwillow next year if they run it again.
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# ? Sep 19, 2012 16:19 |
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How'd that minivan do?
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# ? Sep 19, 2012 16:59 |
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Wish I had a desktop sized shot (1080p) of that minivan v. BMW picture. Looks like it's kind of at the limit of resolution already though.
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# ? Sep 19, 2012 17:24 |
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Blooot posted:Well, we're all responsible, reasonable adults who all contribute where we can. It's not that hard! We're now talking about the next one we'll run, and we have a mind to do the true 24h at Buttonwillow next year if they run it again. Awesome, I'm hoping to have a car and do that race next year too. The team I was on last year they were great guys but not really mechanics so I felt like I did 75% of the work, and some of what they did, they screwed up. (like replacing the front calipers and then only bleeding the front--which I didn't find out until I sat down in the race car suited up and ready to drive to the starting grid and the pedal was mush!)
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# ? Sep 19, 2012 18:36 |
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aventari posted:Awesome, I'm hoping to have a car and do that race next year too. That would be frustrating! Everyone on our team is an engineer -- all but one mechanical, all car guys, so wrench skills aren't holding us back too much. I suppose we do work pretty well as team, and it probably isn't actually that easy to find a group that can and wants to work together on cars in their free time. I forget that not everyone is useful around a vehicle.
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# ? Sep 20, 2012 07:14 |
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c355n4 posted:Another reason to practice getting the gently caress out of your car in an emergency. I thought that car looked suspiciously pink, and turns out it was NASA-SE director Jim Pantas's car. RIP Pink Panther. I heard the driver in the Porsche that burst into flames put on his harness with the latch against his body. Safety equipment is only effective if you use it properly! Also a motivator for closed-face helmets, because your eyeballs are not fireproof.
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# ? Sep 22, 2012 03:58 |
c355n4 posted:Sadly, I only got video of the practice session which was in the day. I forgot to stop the camera so the battery ran out and the memory card filled up. :v Wow, I knew the event was bad rainwise, but I didn't know it was that bad. Glad I didn't have to flag this event. Hopefully things are better weather wise at the IMG event this weekend. By the way, did you ever get the hot brake issue sorted out?
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# ? Sep 24, 2012 18:48 |
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jadebullet posted:Wow, I knew the event was bad rainwise, but I didn't know it was that bad. Glad I didn't have to flag this event. Hopefully things are better weather wise at the IMG event this weekend. Need to fab up some ducting to the front hubs. Probably do it on the off-season this winter.
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# ? Sep 25, 2012 02:37 |
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Got my second day in at CMP the day before the lemons race there. Things got a little screwed up and I ended up only getting 40min on track but my feelings werent too hurt. I had a blast. I couldn't believe how good the RS3s were on the track. They were making my HP+s work for it. I still have problems with T3 and T14. Did get the kink flat though, that was fun. Heres an example of a bad lap with my only real screw up of the day. (T3 almost spin). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJW6hN8N6tg And heres one of my better laps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8bo2jb-Xr8 Any critique is appreciated.
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# ? Sep 25, 2012 05:48 |
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Good to know about the RS3's, I just ordered a set of 225/45-15's this morning for the e30 edit: This is what happens to 6UL wheels on the front of Hondas on the track apparently. Guy said it was not curbed or anything like that. Showed me another of his wheels that had stress cracks on half the spokes aventari fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Sep 25, 2012 |
# ? Sep 25, 2012 06:01 |
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Sadi posted:Any critique is appreciated. What are you using for telemetry there?
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# ? Sep 25, 2012 16:38 |
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Sigma X posted:What are you using for telemetry there? Harry's laptimer pro, Its probably the best $20 i've spent on any iPhone app. It gives you a lot of data you can export. It can do those overlays. I still havent explored all the options.
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# ? Sep 25, 2012 17:02 |
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Sadi posted:Harry's laptimer pro, Its probably the best $20 i've spent on any iPhone app. It gives you a lot of data you can export. It can do those overlays. I still havent explored all the options. Does it let you record for a long time - like an entire 30 minute track session, for example? I have a similar app (optrix videopro) and it can't process long videos. Nice save on that first video like your instructor said. Other than that you could probably use more of the track but that's a pretty easy thing to fix.
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# ? Sep 25, 2012 17:14 |
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Sadi posted:Harry's laptimer pro, Its probably the best $20 i've spent on any iPhone app. It gives you a lot of data you can export. It can do those overlays. I still havent explored all the options. It's the only thing I've seen and actually cared about when it comes to iOS and Android application availability. There are several laptimers/telemtry apps for Apple devices, and no good ones for Android.
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# ? Sep 25, 2012 17:21 |
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eriddy posted:Does it let you record for a long time - like an entire 30 minute track session, for example? I have a similar app (optrix videopro) and it can't process long videos. It auto starts recording video when you start lapping. It records the whole time but automatically divides the video up in to one lap segments. It also lets you compare telemetry from lap to lap. If you have a wifi OBD2 sender it shows ever more data. I have had the optrix video app before this. In my opinion the optix app is fine for autocross, but lap timer pro is miles ahead for track stuff. Timer pro can even do some cool stuff, like you can load gopro video into it and let it process and add the overlay to it. Or you could just export the telemetry data and do the overlay on an external program. Its a much more in depth app than oprix.
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# ? Sep 25, 2012 19:14 |
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It has a track "marketplace," right? Where other people have defined track positions on GPS? I got the sense that you could start driving without any map and that it could infer lapping, but that having a track reference set up would be better.
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# ? Sep 25, 2012 19:25 |
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Yeah it'll draw the track out using GPS data but if you load a track from their database you get more consistent sector times and lap times overall are more accurately compared. I really like that you can export the data and overlay it on a video taken with a separate device. Now if only I was good at driving cars..
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# ? Sep 25, 2012 21:58 |
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aventari posted:Good to know about the RS3's, I just ordered a set of 225/45-15's this morning for the e30 Gen #? I know that wheels are considered wear items, exponentially more if track time is involved.
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# ? Sep 25, 2012 22:39 |
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Sadi posted:Any critique is appreciated. I'd pinch 1 more on the backend and straighten 2, that sets you up proper for 3. Nice save on 3, it's a bad turn to screw up on because you got tirewall and armco all around. It's a critical turn though because it leads to a straight. Notice the dirt patch at the turn-in to three. There are actually some cinder blocks there. You can put your right tires in that dirt and brake hard and fast, it won't upset the car. Climb the gators on 3 and let the car drift out. The 3-4 stright looks good. Your tires should kiss the very end of the gators at trackright after 3 where they meet the dirt patch. That will set you for a straight line to 4 carrying good speed. Through 4 and 5, climb those gators if your car likes it. Your turn in looks a little late at 7, your apex little early. I like to ride that line through 6 where the asphalt joins. At the apex for 6 (mid track) there is a weird patch of asphalt. The car will jutter a little bit and chirp the tires, that is my signal to run in and lay into the throttle. The apex at 7 is the dirt patch 1ft past the inside gator. Aim for the last marker pole and you will hit it every time. Between 7 and 8, you are hugging the left too much. That section is actually a "straight" and you want to make it really straight. You want to be ~midtrack at the flag stand and a little more right just after at the dip. You want a straight line from trackout at 7 to turnin at 8. From 8 on looks good. I like how you track out at 11, I still always fight the car through there. 12-13 looks really good. Have you found the J? 14 just sucks for everyone, it's >90 degrees and the outside gators are the worst on the track. Just get it pointed right ASAP and on the throttle. Besides the tank slapper, nothing stands out as being bad. Just tighten up your apexes and find the right turn-ins. It comes with seat time. Keys to CMP: inside gators are smooth so ride them, dirt patches are there because racers killed the grass driving over them, use track surface irregualrities to locate your car. Unfortunately I don't have a good momentum car lap uploaded to share.
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 01:55 |
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We ran Heartland Park in Kansas this weekend for the regional Chumpionship. Really fun track, although it's murder on tyres - we took a new one down to the metal in less than three hours. Came in just as this one was causing a nasty vibration above 80 mph. The tally for the weekend. They weren't all new, but most of them were. Saturday was 7 hours and 77 min on the 2.5 mile layout, then the race was stopped and on Sunday we restarted (double wide, something Chumpcar doesn't usually do) and ran 6 hours and 66 min on the 2.3 mile layout (which is a much more fun version). We'd have finished 7th but some twats in an Escort wagon ran into one of my team mates on Sunday morning and we lost 20 or 25 minutes in the pits replacing a control arm. Over the next six hours we clawed back a number of spots and the last hour was a nerve-wracking battle for 10th with the same Escort who hit us. We let Alex off the leash when the gap got below 10 seconds, they closed it up and then he drove the wheels of the Golf, setting and then beating (and then beating) our best laptime for that track configuration. It's our worst placing of the year (not counting a couple of DNFs) but it was probably the most fun we've had all year and even though we weren't higher up we were the fastest FWD car. Realistically the best we'd probably have finished would have been 7th, maybe 6th, but if it wasn't for the contact we'd have beaten every non-BMW and 3/4s of the propeller brigade too. Road America is up in four weeks, really looking forward to going back to a track where I don't have to spend the first hour of my stint learning where it goes. Entry was capped at 75 so it's going to be hectic. drgitlin fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Sep 26, 2012 |
# ? Sep 26, 2012 02:29 |
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T14 @ CMP sucks for everybody... except autocrossers! Caught up to so many people in that corner. Your "good" lap (versus "oh god the armco!!") looked like a pretty decent lap. Like Sniper said, you should make the side straight a straight versus going all the way to track left; in that video, you technically could have kept it in 3rd because the top of 3rd is 85mph and you were trapping at 86. If you get a decent line out of the carousel, you should easily gain 5mph for the NASCAR turn. For the kink, good job using caution. That said, in a bone stock Miata you should be able to take it going about 100mph. Unfortunately the kink doesn't get easier with time, you just poo poo your pants less. Phone fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Sep 26, 2012 |
# ? Sep 26, 2012 02:36 |
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c355n4 posted:How'd that minivan do? They got the Class C win! Great team. Also, since were bragging about race finishes, my team got our first win with chumpcar at the ridge a couple weeks ago. My first real race win ever! (my hosting)
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# ? Oct 1, 2012 21:52 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q8H6jHKMBU The sound of sadness at 0:49 parid posted:They got the Class C win! Great team. The trophy is the best. Grats on the race win!
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# ? Oct 1, 2012 21:59 |
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Congratulations! And that trophy is awesome.
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# ? Oct 2, 2012 03:53 |
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drgitlin posted:Road America is up in four weeks, really looking forward to going back to a track where I don't have to spend the first hour of my stint learning where it goes. Entry was capped at 75 so it's going to be hectic. What will you be driving at Road America this weekend? I'm headed there with the NorthLoop Motorsports guys and will be in the Grey and Orange E30, pretty sure I'm first driver in Saturday and likely Sunday.
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# ? Oct 17, 2012 14:57 |
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NitroSpazzz posted:What will you be driving at Road America this weekend? I'm headed there with the NorthLoop Motorsports guys and will be in the Grey and Orange E30, pretty sure I'm first driver in Saturday and likely Sunday. We race the #88 Golf - you'll know if I'm in the car because the rest of the team have white helmets and I have an extrawesome paintjob on mine. We also have three sets of brand spanking new Star Specs according to Facebook: Look forward to racing with you this weekend - with Tubby not in attendance maybe some of us have a chance at the win! drgitlin fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Oct 17, 2012 |
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drgitlin posted:Look forward to racing with you this weekend - with Tubby not in attendance maybe some of us have a chance at the win! Congrats on the 8th place Saturday. What happened Sunday, saw your car getting towed in a few times. We arrived with three cars, one was dead within the first two hours on day one. The other two cars did ok. 24 was the quick car so the guys who do most/all of the prep work on the car drove that one, 26th Saturday (4 drivers and some issues) and 9th Sunday (5 drivers). 27 was really down on power and we didn't expect it to finish but we managed a 25th Saturday (4 drivers) and 26th Sunday (7 drivers). Somehow I ended up being the quickest driver in the 27 car, 2 seconds faster on Saturday and 4 seconds faster on Sunday with a best lap of 3:15.9. Had fun and will be doing another event. Have video that I'll get around to posting at some point. Brother took around 3000 pictures. Here's me getting strapped in. NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Oct 22, 2012 |
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It was good meeting you too! Saturday should have been 7th but the alternator died with two laps to go so we lost a place. Sunday was looking good for a while, we were 2nd for while, although realistically 5th would have been the highest the car might have finished, but the bolts holding the clutch in place (I think) ate themselves so we lost just under 2 hours replacing that. Then with 30 min to the flag it died again, turned out to be a loose wire. I think we only finished 40th or 38th, but we did beat Barry and the #99 who won on Saturday It's been a great season, and I'm amazingly proud at how the entire team has gelled and what we've accomplished. What a hobby to have! Here's a video of the cars passing the pits during warm-up yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=?yHTS-NhgD24
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# ? Oct 22, 2012 23:42 |
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not working?
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# ? Oct 23, 2012 00:22 |
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Hmm. Here's the direct link: http://youtu.be/yHTS-NhgD24
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# ? Oct 23, 2012 02:14 |
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Some carnage from early Saturday morning in corner 5 and 6. Nothing like trying to win the race in the first couple minutes, this was my introduction to racing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygERumU2eq4 Should have footage from my "fast" Sunday stint later this week, my SD card was left with the NLM crew so they could grab what footage they wanted.
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If you get the chance to run Thunderhill in reverse, do it! Here's a couple youtubes shot from the right rear quarter panel of my 510 last week during a Golden Gate Lotus Club track day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VwffEciU1w&feature=g-upl -- chasing my friends E36 M3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b271albASSo&feature=g-upl -- catching and passing an Esprit on R-Compounds
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