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Just to clarify, no rooms available at the Hangar Inn???
I haven’t checked honestly. They do fill up very quickly. Unfortunately I can’t go this year. I’m just passing on the information since it’s such a fun event.
Met up with @StormRune@TXshaggy and @incursion today at my local track. For a great first impression, I managed to spin it after only a couple hot laps, but in my defense, my right rear tire had a blowout at 110mph and ~1sec before the braking zone, in a corner where I usually tralbrake pretty good. Turned out I'd picked up a screw on my way in this morning, right at the sidewall, rubbed the sidewall from the inside out. Hope to do it again sometime, and need to meet up with shaggy for beers soon, thanks for the ride incursion, thanks for the lunch stormrune.
Adding photos from our day at Harris Hill so no one can say it didn't happen.
@enduro Thank you for hosting TXshaggy and myself for a day that was truly a blast! It was also great to be able to spend some time with the famous @TXshaggy in person.
@incursion It was good to meet you too even without your Porsche. Little did you know what thrills were in store when enduro offered to take you for a spin!
Enduro was easily setting the fastest times and showing the best driving skills of the day. I'm amazed he managed to keep the car on track and prevent any additional damage with that sudden 100 mph+ blowout and spin. Well done! Check out the catastrophic tire failure in that last photo.
I was tickled to be able to set a fairly decent lap time myself for the first time out on that track with a unmodded car with original SC2 tires (1:28.265 with a 109mph top speed)
Adding photos from our day at Harris Hill so no one can say it didn't happen.
I'm amazed he (enduro) managed to keep the car on track and prevent any additional damage with that sudden 100 mph+ blowout and spin. Well done! Check out the catastrophic tire failure in that last photo.
Lesson learned from @enduro , I always check my tire pressures, but now I'll be checking tire integrity too.
Good save on your part.
Anyone heading out to the COTA cars and coffee this Sunday? I’ll be out there with at least one other.
Not this time, but just an FYI: You might want to try going early, hopefully the line will be shorter although I can't really say.
I tried to go to the last one. I arrived around an hour after start time and was surprised to discover the line waiting to get in was backed all of the way out to the toll road along 812 and just creeping along. After about 10 minutes and still having a long way to go I decided to bail out. It also appeared that traffic coming from the east had much less of a wait - so many were driving past and looping back around from the east.
I can't say about entering from the north from Elroy Rd but that often tends to be shorter for other COTA events.
Good luck!
@StormRune A 1:28.3 first time out and not driving it like it's a spec Miata indicates very good skillz, I bet a beer you'd equal or supercede my times very quickly, especially looking at your tires' wear pattern
Also, a lot ppl find CCW more counterintuitive than CW. My PB a bit off the rl record which is 1:23.9 IIRC, (on the old config) but I care too much about my car to drive it that close to the edge... and good chance I'd run out of talent haha. I'll save that for karting for the time being.
Met up with @StormRune@TXshaggy and @incursion today at my local track. For a great first impression, I managed to spin it after only a couple hot laps, but in my defense, my right rear tire had a blowout at 110mph and ~1sec before the braking zone, in a corner where I usually tralbrake pretty good. Turned out I'd picked up a screw on my way in this morning, right at the sidewall, rubbed the sidewall from the inside out. Hope to do it again sometime, and need to meet up with shaggy for beers soon, thanks for the ride incursion, thanks for the lunch stormrune.
How is that track, and who hosts events there? I haven't heard much about it but always looking for places outside of CoTA and MSR Houston to go to.
Adding photos from our day at Harris Hill so no one can say it didn't happen.
@enduro Thank you for hosting TXshaggy and myself for a day that was truly a blast! It was also great to be able to spend some time with the famous @TXshaggy in person.
@incursion It was good to meet you too even without your Porsche. Little did you know what thrills were in store when enduro offered to take you for a spin!
Enduro was easily setting the fastest times and showing the best driving skills of the day. I'm amazed he managed to keep the car on track and prevent any additional damage with that sudden 100 mph+ blowout and spin. Well done! Check out the catastrophic tire failure in that last photo.
I was tickled to be able to set a fairly decent lap time myself for the first time out on that track with a unmodded car with original SC2 tires (1:28.265 with a 109mph top speed)
I had a great time even though it was cut short. Next time I'll have my car since I intend to join soon.
How is that track, and who hosts events there? I haven't heard much about it but always looking for places outside of CoTA and MSR Houston to go to.
Not many events hosted, currently mostly a members' place. I see a few TNIA vids on youtube, but those look way too crowded for my taste, looks like they do have an event coming up in Sept. Best way to experience it is, if you know a member, they can have guests.
I like it a lot for lapping for a few reasons. Easy on the consumables and difficult to hit anything other than acres of grass. Has some elevation change, lots of blind corners where you have to know what's coming. Lots of on camber & off camber medium speed sweepers, increasing, decreasing, and constant radius. For a GT4, only a couple short straights (I don't necessarily like this). It's more about sweepers than about power. A bit bumpy in places but not too bad yet. Mid week, there are very few people on the track so you don't have to deal with unsafe idiots and you can get in a lot of clean laps. IMO biggest thing it's missing are some esses.
How is that track, and who hosts events there? I haven't heard much about it but always looking for places outside of CoTA and MSR Houston to go to.
Originally Posted by enduro
Not many events hosted, currently mostly a members' place. I see a few TNIA vids on youtube, but those look way too crowded for my taste, looks like they do have an event coming up in Sept. Best way to experience it is, if you know a member, they can have guests.
I like it a lot for lapping for a few reasons. Easy on the consumables and difficult to hit anything other than acres of grass. Has some elevation change, lots of blind corners where you have to know what's coming. Lots of on camber & off camber medium speed sweepers, increasing, decreasing, and constant radius. For a GT4, only a couple short straights (I don't necessarily like this). It's more about sweepers than about power. A bit bumpy in places but not too bad yet. Mid week, there are very few people on the track so you don't have to deal with unsafe idiots and you can get in a lot of clean laps. IMO biggest thing it's missing are some esses.
I thought it was excellent, at least from an infrequent track driver point-of-view. Like enduro says, you really have to memorize the layout since the elevation changes make it tricky to see what's next. The surface is in pretty good condition and you can take lines to deal with the few imperfections without disturbing your experience too much.
I really appreciate the generous space all around the track; not that I plan on running off anywhere but it does make me more comfortable about driving hard when I'm not worrying about hard surfaces nearby. The people at the track were very welcoming and accommodating. All of the drivers were very good t waving past, not that there was very much traffic to deal with. It was a very low pressure day.
I've just posted a YouTube video here showing a side-by-side view of two of my runs so you can get a peek at the track from that. I know I didn't end up taking the best possible lines and could improve my braking zones, form, etc, but all we were after was fun and this was FUN!
06-27-2022, 08:40 PM
