NJ-GT

Title says it all. 2 weeks from now.

Bring your Aero Beetles, and do the talk with your right foot.

This is not a Challenge, just a Time Trial with rules as established by NASA.

Who's in?

Instructors are needed for this event, and as you know, NASA gives you free registration when you instruct. Hoosier gives you up to 4 free tires if you win your class with at least 5 drivers in class, you need to register with Hoosiers for contingency prizes.

So, free tires, free registration, and March weather. What could be better? A Fiat with working brakes !!!

85Gold

Rad

You bringing the Fiat or Coxster. Nick Wong will be there Sat with his Beast of a GT2, looks like he will be running HPDE3 I will be in Tulsa that weekend but I think Ian is codriving Josh's S2000 in TTC.

Peter

NJ-GT

I'm bringing the Fiat. Hopefully, I can keep up with Mr. Sideways.

NJ-GT

Where are the Aero Beetles?

Lots of open track before the Heat makes Sebring a living Hell.

With the new Supersize-me option, you get 8 track sessions per day.

Event is free for instructors.

4 Fiats registered, and no Aero Beetles.

cgomez

Are Race Aero beetles allowed?
Will be in MIA this weekend, but you should have posted earlier and I wouldn't have made plans (Tennis) for Saturday with the family

TRAKCAR

Out of town..

Mrsideways

That won't be a problem. I'm borrowing Josh's car. I just hope I'm quick enough to keep Chi Honest and make him work for the win.

NJ-GT

7 Fiats at the event, 3 of them Scuderia, and just 3 Aero Beetles.

More people realize Fiats are more reliable, and they are switching to the Sport cars brand.

I added 50 lbs of ballast on unsprung weight.

The only Fiat failure after almost 2,000 miles of combined Sebring driving by all Fiats, my transmission failure on Saturday, Sebring is way too bumpy.

Nick Wong

Rad, you forgot to say, all the other Fiats were slow. Easy to keep a car together at their speeds!

TRAKCAR

Goes without saying..

NJ-GT

Correct, at 1/10th all tires are great, brakes, engines, transmissions last forever.

Did you shoot any videos from the Forced-Induction-Aero-Beetle?

It was shocking when I timed the 458 Challenge. A factory race car running slower lap times than a Boxster on 245 tires.

Nick Wong

I forgot to get video. However we were faster by quite a bit over the yellow stripped out ZR1 Vette with slicks. We were using 6th gear quite a bit!

NJ-GT

Any ideas how much slower Sebring is getting?

We were at 83 degrees this past weekend, and a nightmare humidity. For the first time I saw my oil temperature at 220 degrees, and for the first time I saw an e-Diff warning "Slow Down". Grip was horrible.

I ran on RE11 (Bridgestone) on Saturday, zero traffic as NASA stages by lap times and I was running 3rd overall. The best I could run was a 2:24.9.

Back in Winterfest 2011, my first day ever at Sebring, no experience with the line, PBOC Solo traffic with required point-by, and I ran 2:24.3.

In talking to people on the paddock, they claim Sebring is 2 secs slower currently, and 4 secs slower in the Summer time. I don't know if that's true.

Gavin was there this weekend, doing some product testing, his 997.1 RS on Michelin slicks, no idea on lap times, but it looked fast out there.

NJ-GT

My transmission failure.

Sebring is so rough and bumpy that my gear selector (upshift paddle) came loose, and the car was upshifting by itself on bumpy sections. Fortunately, I had an allen key, and I was able to fix my transmission on Sunday morning.

A 3.2 Boxster S ran a 2:25 on 245 Hoosier R6, superb driving by the fast Eric (the slow Erik is the one with an Orange car)

TRAKCAR

I thought Fiats were faster just left in full Automatic Sebring Race setting?
You actually have to pull the lever, how clumbsy and pedestrian.

Wait till July / August / Sept, your robot will say G A M E O V E R.
I say forget June, Aug and Sept and follow us to Canada in July.

I've gone to my hotel room by 1PM with the A/C on 60F when I almost passed out from heat stroke.