I thought I'd share some of my photos from a Drivers Ed at Homestead last week.

Homestead Photo Gallery

Enjoy!

 

Nice shots. Car looks so low when cornering hard. What ru running for sway bars?

 

Very, very nice!!! What tires were you running with?

 

Nice shots Terry!

Do you have his (photographer) e-mail, assuming these were taken by the guy who takes photos and sells them. I forgot to take his e-mail and would like to get it.

BTW, I might have nice video clip for you to work on later (I have forward, rear, dash/legs & driver footage from this event), I just need to edit one ~5 min. clip out of all I have.

 

Thanks for the kind words guys.

PC2 - I'm running Kumho's on the car. My rears were brand new at this event. The fronts had a few cycles on them. Homestead is pretty rough on the right front. Driving a 4WD car which pushes already - made things even worse. I destroyed my right front - corded it all the way around. I'm partially to blame though I should have paid more attention to my tire temps and softened that one up a bit.

Pete000 - I'm running a 21mm rear sway bar. That's a "mild" upgrade from the C4's stock 19mm sway bar. It was a big step in the right direction.

Finn - You've got a PM with Henry's phone number in it.

 

You've seen the pictures now watch the video!
43mb MPEG Video Clip

At 43mb, it's not for dial up users! Otherwise enjoy!

And last, but not least - a track map for fun.

 

I love it when people take the time to post all the multimedia, its so much fun!! Thanks Terry!!!

(D'loading the vid as I type)

 

Whoa... is that your car stereo playing?!!!! I'd go running off the track or crash into that yellow car if I raced to that tune!!!!

I enjoyed the pics! Thanks!

 

LOL! Actually Terry, I really enjoyed the vid and the soundtrack but wished the ambiant sounds (i.e. flat-six) were competing a little more readily with the soundtrack...in case you feel like remixing at any point!

Thanks again, awesome stuff!

 

Very nice! Makes me wish I could go there.

Isn't it fun catching and passing higher horsepower cars?

 

Thanks for sharing this with us! Nice!

 

Terry, Thanks from here too.... That looks like too much fun!

 

it looks pretty low even when he's not cornering!

great pics and i too am downloading the vid as i type

thanks for sharing

 

Terry,

Great video! What type of video setup you are using? The video was very steady, any chance your using a lipstick/bullet type camera?

 

No bullet/lipstick camera - though I wish I had one!
It's just my trusty old Sony DCR-PC110 Mini-DV camcorder bolted on tight to my I/P Port racing camcorder mount. The light weight of the Sony camera keeps it from bouncing around too much. .......so does the fact that Homestead is a very smooth track - only the transitions on/off the banking bounce the car.

I do use a wide angle lens on my camera and set it up to shoot in 16:9 "widescreen" format. That combination gives you a nice view out the windscreen and you can see a lot of the dashboard.

If safety rules permitted running with the top down, you could see the speedo and tach in full sunlight.