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Old 01-27-2013, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by jenk12m
Luckily I had my shop pick up my car while I was still in Minnesota. Found out my engine had to come out to replace a power steering line that was leaking
Thats from sitting too long

you need to ship your car to florida in teh winter and I will exercise it monthly at sebring
Old 01-27-2013, 03:39 PM
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Hey that's an idea. If all the guys from up north want to leave your cars down here we have quite a few events in February,and March.
Old 01-27-2013, 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Izzone
Thats from sitting too long

you need to ship your car to florida in teh winter and I will exercise it monthly at sebring
I would but you don't drive street cars on the track anymore
Old 01-27-2013, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Vonschmidt
Hey that's an idea. If all the guys from up north want to leave your cars down here we have quite a few events in February,and March.
The wife and I have been kicking around the idea of renting a garage at MSR for the Winter. The only problem is the mechanic work that I usually like to do after running is much more fun in my garage on my lift... with my buddies and a beer.
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Originally Posted by CKit
The wife and I have been kicking around the idea of renting a garage at MSR for the Winter. The only problem is the mechanic work that I usually like to do after running is much more fun in my garage on my lift... with my buddies and a beer.
There's a DE at TWS run by the track the weekend after y'all's event at COTA. These are fun events with low car counts, so you get lots of track time. If you've got an enclosed trailer, I'll bet you could arrange to park it at TWS for a reasonable fee and just hang around Texas for another week.
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Mike right about e event and if you register for the PDS I'm pretty sure we can get your trailers stored for nothing that week.
Old 01-27-2013, 09:11 PM
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That's super attractive, but the work schedule just won't allow it this year.
Old 01-27-2013, 09:22 PM
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Been watching video and TWS is my kind of track, sort of like me, old and crusty with character. It actually looks like more fun than COTA.

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Old 01-27-2013, 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by 85Gold
Been watching video and TWS is my kind of track, sort of like me, old and crusty with character. It actually looks like more fun than COTA.

Peter
Haven driven both, I would say COTA is far nicer and very cool to be in a surface that's rand new and only really driven a few times before we get it. Nice straights and some good corners. the track was set up for formula one and it shows in the design with straights too long for second but not enough for third. However TWS with its banked high speed corners some real technical parts and a great front straight no matter what direction you run it in is super cool. So at the end of the weekend everyone will have there own experience.n given some money for track improvements I think TWS would be well served in a comparison for great tracks in the country.
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Peter, TWS is IMHO the most under-rated road course in the US. Happy to get you fast quickly on Thursday if you'd like. Weather forecast looks to be superb!
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Are we running TWS ccw or cw. I've been watching a ton of vids going ccw
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Good to know
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Picked up Harry's lap timer. TWS should be a good chance to firm down the datalogging and video angles.


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