mikymu

I had a blast with our five fellow forum members and their GT3/RS celebrating veterans day chasing each other at Thunderhill. It was a treat to have Johannes van Overbeek and company on the track with their spec 911 - one fast company!

My RS bare an US air force logo to honor my favorite maverick flying tiger outfit. Here is a shout out to all veterans

Here is a video of our GT3/RS train and chasing Johannes van Overbeek along with couple pictures from the event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0-hbC0QdfQ

Another video chasing Z06. I was dead tired ... last session of the day and alot of mistake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuu2MCSayqA





mikymu with his death ray helmet lol



Collection of GT3/RS









996FLT6's smart car



and other ...

Polarporsche

Great Pic's, hoping too get to TH next summer, heard lots of good things about the track.

mikymu

You will love it! Great track and many many fun and technical turns. Hope we can meet up next year

24Chromium

A SmartforTwo?!?!! AYFS?!?!!!

So that's what soccer moms do after they drop the kids off for school!

lawjdc

Veterans Day? You ran with the Lotus Club?

996FLT6

Sadly Soccer Dad : (. Mike

mikymu

Lotus club is really relax - almost anything goes. They let you run both intermediate and advance group for one low price of $150. You can easily get 10 sessions in one track day ... FATIGUE!

Serge944

Mike, can you email me high resolution version of the photo of my car? serge944@gmail.com

I'll buy you lunch next track event

24Chromium

And here I am chasing the same van Overbeek car...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brau3hHJ93Q

Something tells me Johannes wasn't driving it this session!

rickmdz

This Lotus club trackday was fantastic, trully relaxed enviroment with tons of track time. Nice to see so many GT3's, you flew by me all day long...
Here's one of my laps in my slow 997 c2s with the slower driver (me)

mikymu

Consider it done Serge. I will order my sea food stake lunch now

Good line and I will remeber to track out more. I think Johannes and his friend trade off driving the spec 911 - one sweet car!

Yes, good format and tons of track time - most importantly CHEAP!

Did you go off at T1?

mooty

use it all, and some dirt too. that's why potter is fast, he put all four into dirt. his track is much wider than us.

you need spec 911. that's what real man drives.

rickmdz

yep, that's me

I messed up braking while trying to downshift 5-4-3. T1 was challenging for me, heavy braking, uneven pavement? 2 downshifts vs 1 (5->3)...
The off was not to bad, when I realized I was too hot didn't want to panic/block brakes nor get sideways so I chose to keep it simple.
I'm learning...

mooty

do not shift to 5th gear. your car's gearing is way too tall, you shouldn't use more than 4th gear in any of the nor cal tracks.

rickmdz

i did for the most part, like in the video I posted, but found that I'm at redline just before the flag stand so either I shift up or coast till braking point, and that's with a lot of room for improvement at T14-15...

Sorry not my intention to hijack this thread, thank you for your input.
Only drawback of this event was the coaching part since I didn't know anybody, with PCA that is better covered for us the newbies