New gt3, first track day, MSR Cresson Texas
01-31-2015, 11:41 PM
#16
Nordschleife Master
It's a shame, too because the on board chrono/pcm timer has a nice feature where the timer will turn green if you are faster than the last lap, yellow if you are on pace, and red if you are slower. Unfortunately, the need to pull the stupid stalk every lap makes the feature useless.
01-31-2015, 11:43 PM
#17
Racer
Thread Starter
Yeah this is the case. On the car I had to toggle the lower right stalk. The app, when it works does it automatically. Think I am just going to get a Solo and call it a day. on the bright side, I have a really cool $3000 clock in the center of my dash.
02-01-2015, 12:06 AM
#18
Total fail, Porsche!!!
02-01-2015, 12:11 AM
#19
Nordschleife Master
Yeah, Solo and call it a day is the way to go. It's too bad because the Porsche system had potential, but they did pretty much everything wrong....
02-01-2015, 12:49 AM
#20
It was a pleasure to have you and at least 2 others in 991 GT3s on track today, not including Darth Vader from next door who decided to make a run later in the day. That's a pretty big number for such a rare car! And they appear not to melt in the wet, too. As for studmuffin who talks about how far OP has to go, perhaps he could post some laps to educate us. I have a Solo DL he can borrow and he can post all manner of helpful quantitative info to guide us in our quest for pace, like throttle position and of course pace in each corner. I'll post my data when I get my car, too.
02-01-2015, 09:30 AM
#21
02-01-2015, 12:52 PM
#22
It was a pleasure to have you and at least 2 others in 991 GT3s on track today, not including Darth Vader from next door who decided to make a run later in the day. That's a pretty big number for such a rare car! And they appear not to melt in the wet, too. As for studmuffin who talks about how far OP has to go, perhaps he could post some laps to educate us. I have a Solo DL he can borrow and he can post all manner of helpful quantitative info to guide us in our quest for pace, like throttle position and of course pace in each corner. I'll post my data when I get my car, too.
Not to hit a hornet's nest - and granted I don't have a 991 - but I do agree that that there is more time out there. 996's can pull 1:22-21s (and maybe a high 1:20 even). 997.1 a second or so faster than that. 997.2 is a little faster still. 991 is even faster. Back of the envelop (1 second gaps per generation) using the 996 as the starting point, would put the 991 at around 1:18 or so.
Here's a video of a 997.1 GT3 from almost 5 years ago. No overlay, but it's right at 1:21. There's more time in the car, but the driver wasn't pushing it. Drove like this and you win the DE for sure.
-td
02-01-2015, 02:16 PM
#23
Racer
Thread Starter
Yeah I know there is a bunch more time out there, need more track days (or fewer Raptor days..)
here is video from one of the sessions, don't think it was my fastest, but damn it sure sounds good:
here is video from one of the sessions, don't think it was my fastest, but damn it sure sounds good:
02-01-2015, 02:22 PM
#24
Rennlist Member
Himself has some pretty solid track notes for the 1.7CCW out there on another forum. I was going to post them, but I haven't found it yet. Funny he chimed in on this thread. Maybe he can find and share.
02-01-2015, 02:38 PM
#25
Instructor
It's a shame, too because the on board chrono/pcm timer has a nice feature where the timer will turn green if you are faster than the last lap, yellow if you are on pace, and red if you are slower. Unfortunately, the need to pull the stupid stalk every lap makes the feature useless.
02-01-2015, 02:40 PM
#26
Rennlist Member
Looks fun and your car sounds good. Is that stock exhaust or do u have sharkworks bypass?
02-01-2015, 03:07 PM
#27
I've been contemplating getting a 991.3 so I've been trolling you guys here
-td
02-01-2015, 03:43 PM
#28
Racer
Thread Starter
One more video. think my best was set in this one. Also the R8 is my son, who just got moved to intermediate at the last track day. he had put on old rubber and his car was all over the place.
02-01-2015, 07:08 PM
#29
Great videos, thanks for sharing your first day on that track with your GT3 and you are doing great no doubt. So awesome you can do this with your son (I have a long wait as mine are single digits old). I agree with getting an AIM so you won't be distracted setting the stalk every lap, hoping you hit it at the same exact location.
BTW, I also brake a little before ricochet (although boomerang would have been a more fun, albeit scarier, name) because the car approaches it too fast.
BTW, I also brake a little before ricochet (although boomerang would have been a more fun, albeit scarier, name) because the car approaches it too fast.
02-01-2015, 07:21 PM
#30
Racer
Thread Starter
Great videos, thanks for sharing your first day on that track with your GT3 and you are doing great no doubt. So awesome you can do this with your son (I have a long wait as mine are single digits old). I agree with getting an AIM so you won't be distracted setting the stalk every lap, hoping you hit it at the same exact location. BTW, I also brake a little before ricochet (although boomerang would have been a more fun, albeit scarier, name) because the car approaches it too fast.