good hands

Really nice driving. X2 on the precise shifting.

Spartan

It was nice to meet you in person Clay! Good job dodging the 962's

Dwane

Great driving!
Love the 996GT3R!

joeykid

Looks like the setup is perfect. That is half the battle. The other half, driving, you hammered! Outstanding.

Chris P Lewis

What is it about those Cup car transmissions that allow for that fast of a gear change? I have never been able to do that in the Cayman!

claykos

Thanks guys! Felt lucky just to be part of the event!

It's motorsports steel synchros, etc. But it's not so much the gearbox as it is the combination of closely spaced gears and very light clutch/flywheel/engine rotating assembly. So the motor drops the ~1500 rpms between gears just about as fast as you can get it in the next gear.

Nizer

Cool video. Nice driving. Thanks for sharing.

jdistefa

Yup. I have the same setup in my RSR clone and it makes shifting with an H-pattern as close as possible to a sequential. It's all about making the spinning stuff as light as possible. Fun

jrgordonsenior

Good job Clay as usual. Did you try 4th in T4 and T6? I'd have like to have seen comparable data for those 2 turns which are really the crux of turning fast laps at Laguna.

mark kibort

Those were some quick laps. lots of good stuff there. certainly 1:29s are in your future with that car there!

claykos

Didn't try them in 4th. The gears in my car are longer than normal cup and it revs a good bit higher. The RSR motor doesn't like to be at low RPM either - so 3rd felt very appropriate. I think it would've been bogged down in 4th.

Thanks. 29 would be awesome. There might be one there. Definitely a 30.x with more practice. Track may have been a little slow on this particular weekend. For reference, Jorg Bergmeister turned a best lap of 30.9 in an 05 RSR that weekend, and Sofronas had a best of 31.2 in an 04 RSR, Kevin Roush at 31.7 in an 00 GT3R, Wolf Henzler in a 2012 RSR ad 1:27! The 04/05 RSRs were sequentials, better aero (flat bottom) and wider front track.

jrgordonsenior

You would just have to carry more speed into those turns. Easy-peasy....

claykos

Haha! Ya! Why didn't I think of that?!?! ;-)

24Chromium

And here is the view from the back of the pack...

mark kibort

nice laps! does your car have autoblip on downshifts? hard to hear. the sequential must be really fun!