Pics from my track day + VID IS NOW AVAILABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[xrocket21]

EDIT: now with video
Track Days at NHMS- Video

[lol you thought it was gonna be the RC51]

[Tricky Mike]

[lol you thought it was gonna be the RC51]

I didn't
That car is mental.

[xrocket21]

IT was just silly on the track.

My instructor the second day drove I Porsche GT3 and he was blown away by the power and grip levels.

His exact words: "Well, if you ever wondered...... YES, you CAN spin all 4 tires in 4TH GEAR WITH RACE TIRES"

by fast, I mean we were going scary fast.

It was my first track day (I auto-x a lot) and the organizers were concerned about a noob in such a car.

i impressed everyone so much the flagger waved me over. I thought I was in trouble, or was leaking...

He said the corner workes called in to say I was doing AM<AZING and they the car was ridiculously fast. It gave me goosebumps.

[OreoGaborio]

That's pretty sick, bro.

I e30 M3's .... oh yeah, & STi's, too

[xrocket21]

What do bikes run there? I dont have an exact time.... I ran into a lot of traffic, and of course my good runs where i could actually complete a lap without traffic I didnt have my camera on.

Slower laps were around 1:30, I think my fastest laps were pushing just sub 1:20

top speed at the end of the straight into turn 1 was 135-140 i think, nearing the top of 5th

[Tricky Mike]

Good stuff, man!
Any ideas what the laptimes were? Just curious how it compares to bikes.

EDIT: beat me to it...

Do you guys run the t12 chicane?

[xrocket21]

Pretty sure we run the exact same layout as the bikes.chicanes on both ends

[xrocket21]

so what do bikes run?

[Tricky Mike]

Depends on who's riding

fast guys are 1:15's
I'm more like 1:28's
Jeff Wood ran a 1:11.00 at the Classic. I think he's dipped into the 10's since?

[xrocket21]

Not bad, so Im 4 seconds ish off the fast bikes

[Hoss]

I didn't think the cars run the 12 chicane, and instead head up towards the pits more?


Very cool, I'd like to get up there and watch that sometime!

[xrocket21]

Between 12 and Pit In, we stay left, do you guys do that little jog to the right?

[xrocket21]

that would make sense so that you arent pushing out to the concrete wall so hard, climbing past 100 with a slight 4 wheel drift out to that wall was VERY scary.

[xrocket21]

like that, but with out the banked oval usage on the right, we use the chicane.

[Hoss]

Yep, the bikes do the right/left chicane before hitting the straight. I would assume to keep the top speeds down, and help stay away from the wall on the entry to the straight.

[xrocket21]

I come off 12 with some motherfucking speeeeeeeeeeed

[CEO]

It's funny how much less dynamic photos of cars going fast are than photos of motorcycles going fast.

God I love bikes.

[Hoss]

Stop putting those ripples in the pavement!




What group was this with? I'll have to try and get up to watch/listen next year.

[OreoGaborio]

Right, as has already been stated, we run the TIGHT chicane just before the front straight.

Your turn 11 is our no-turn since it's a straight line for us 2 wheelers...

Your turn 12 is our turn 11

And the chicane is 11a/12 (or 12/12a depending on who you talk to).

If we used the same exact course as you guys ran the big boy bikes would be doin about 160 going into turn 1 with the NASCAR turn 1 wall comin up awfully fast. Turn 1 was already changed back in the late 90's I believe for the bikes because there were some pretty significant injuries caused by that NASCAR turn 1 wall.

[xrocket21]

I have the video ready, but it is 50 mb

[xrocket21]

Stop putting those ripples in the pavement!




What group was this with? I'll have to try and get up to watch/listen next year.

Boston BMWCCA

[xrocket21]

Track Days at NHMS- Video

[a13x]

Yea I've seen cars up there doing the non-tight 12/12A and they go SOOOO much faster onto the front straight and outta 11 as a result. If bikes did that (it's be crazy dangerous) we'd all probably drop at least 3 seconds easy. Probably more like 5 or 6.

[xrocket21]

Yea I've seen cars up there doing the non-tight 12/12A and they go SOOOO much faster onto the front straight and outta 11 as a result. If bikes did that (it's be crazy dangerous) we'd all probably drop at least 3 seconds easy. Probably more like 5 or 6.

Theres no WAY I would want to come off 12 on a bike like i was in the car. That wall was coming up fast.

[brewmaster]

How much was it? What are the requirements for the car / driver? Do they allow any type of car as long as it fulfills the tech requirements?