Kobalt

The last week in Nürburg this year has come to an end.

Such a rewarding weekend it was, met new friends, met old friends, met old corners, met no new corners.

It has been a very cold week which peeked today. Tomorrow when I'm leaving it is of course getting warmer again

Some picts from today.





Nürburg

robmypro

robmypro

Kobalt

Beautiful!

Kobalt

Can't help byt loving these type of films/videos.

It is all german but a lot of good footage.

Kobalt

"You have not been in the Eifel mountains if you've not done a lap on the Nordschleife"

Kobalt

Went to Nürburg last Thursday and met up with amongst others: EngelJizzle and CT_Pete from RL.

Thursday track was closed and all we did was registering and preparing for next days trackday.

On Friday I was hoping to do a 7.49 in my 997.1GT3 as my best so far with that car was a 7.52.

It was pretty cold 3-5°C.

I started with a warmup lap at 8.29.
The Engeljizzle jumped joined me in the car as passenger for two laps.

First lap was a 8.01 and the second one 7.43(!).

I found it hard to believe and had to watch the video to be sure.
I have no idea of where these 9 seconds came from.
It was a bit unexpected as Engeljizzle was in the car and that the front tires basically was gone. It was so much understeer and poor braking.
I went to the tyre shop and put on new Cup2's in the front - rear was pretty OK.

This is that lap:




After lunch with new front tires I did 7.38 alone in the car. An improvement of 14 seconds!
Of course my phone was full so no video of that...


CT_Pete joined me in the afternoon for some laps. Did a 7.49 and a 7.48.

Here's the 7.48. We didn't go full throttle on the long straight because it came drops of rain also I've had some de-lamination issues and I don't want that with a passenger in the car.



Basically the Friday was a pretty good day.
After the driving it was time for me and Englejizzle to register for the next day race. We've got the chance to get a ride in CT_Pete's brand new GTS. Nice car!
Pete was our private chauffeur

CT_Peter

As much chauffeuring as both you and Englejizzle did for me around the Ring, it was the least I could do. Not too sure Englejizzle was a fan of riding in the backseat, but he did make for a good auto seatbelt extender.

Kobalt

He is indeed very versatile

isv

That's 19 seconds not 9!! Great lap you drove there btw, very impressive to be able to do 7:40s (and below later!) in a 7.1 gt3.

Marcus S.

Great drive Kobalt - have to floor my pedal more next year

robmypro

GrantG

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