GT3DE

for those of of you waiting for another event at COTA this Spring - tough cookies. COTA is booked. We took the last open dates they had. Maybe next fall they will have something. You want to run COTA anytime soon, this is your last shot.

Veloce Raptor

This is a FACT directly communicated to me by COTA. COTA had Feb 4-5 and these days available, and that is it before the end of May (when it gets very hot). We took the March date, and I am sure by now the Feb date is taken.

TRAKCAR

We need merged threads.
Maybe 911SLOW went on Christmas Holiday early.

Circuit of the Americas
9201 Circuit of the Americas Blvd
Austin, TX 78617

Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 08:00am To Thursday, March 14, 2013

$899 for both days.
Open track/open pit lane.
Power point presentation each day.
Data and video system support by AIM.
Use of Smarty Cam with evaluation by David Murry.

So who's signed up?

A few of us just booked a room here: http://hamptoninn3.hilton.com/en/hot...UHX/index.html
Hampton Inn & Suites Buda
1201 Cabela's Drive
Buda Texas, 78610
1-512-295-4900

TRAKCAR

If you have any doubt about signing up, look at some race footage again. This track is awesome!!

Is this the count on the first post accurate as of now?
1. Clarke S - GT3DE - .2RS
2. Slaveya Y (Sly) - .2GT3
3. Grady W - Red Bear - .2RS
4. Peter B - The World Famous Trakcar - 4.0
5. Randy P - Izzone (unless it is in the middle of summer) - .2RS
6. Juan P (as long as it happens before April 15) - 4.0
7. Warren - Nizer - .2RS
8. Jenks - Jenks12m - .2RS
9. Eddie B - m3evobr - .2RS
10. Mike - mdrums (first non-GT3 on the list)
11. Matthew M - mmuller - 4.0
12. Ryan M -- RMAG - .2RS
13. Peter L - 85Gold
14. Andy H
15. Catesby J
16. Michael - Horus2000
17. Dez - wanna911 -- tt
18. Charles V - Vonschmidt - 996 GT2
19. Porschemeister - 4.0
20. Jeffery L - dizzyj - 944T
21. Rad - NJ-GT - Fiat
22. Brandon B - JBB
23. John M - .2RS
24. Teo H -.2RS ? ( or is Teo in a GT2 or GT2RS?)
25. Nikki - Greek - .2GT3
26. Lewis J - .2GT3
27. Joost - flyingpenguin
28. steve G. (ZSA Motorsports drover #1 from VIR event)
29. Joe C. (ZSA Motorsports drover #2 from VIR event)
30. Joey C. (ZSA Motorsports drover #3 from VIR event)
31. Peter P (ZSA Motorsports drover #4 from VIR event)
32. Jim M. (ZSA Motorsports drover #5 from VIR event)
33. Andrew B. - deputydog95 - .1RS
34. Derek L - drl - .2RS
35. Steve W - BlackRain - .2GT3
36. tripleblack
37. Harry H - medpilot105 - .2GT3
38. Erik G - .2RS
39. Salj - 997
40. Brinkley
41. Brian R - 4forme - .2RS
42. Cas O - RSA 185
43. R Andrews - RSA - 964 RSA
44. Steven St. J - sstj - .2GT3
45. Matt J - Boostin - 996 GT3
46. George C - MrMan - 06 Cup
47. Kris D - drdrank - .2RS
48. Kyriacos P - kyrocks - .2RS
49. Anton DP - surathdp - 997.1c4s
50. Steven A - stujelly - .2RS
51. Michael H - consolidated - spec boxster or gt3rs
52. Chris H - forhamilton - .2RS

RSRanger

Have you seen a schedule for each days driving sessions. Hows the breakdown and number of sessions offered?
This will be a HPDE?
Mentioned to the wife last night ... road trip!

Thanks
Ranger (Sua Sponte)

TRAKCAR

Juan, OPEN TRACK 8AM -5PM! Except for a quick lunch. Optional point by's

Schedule:
13th:
Drive, gas up, drive, gas up, drive, gas up, drive, gas up, drive gas up, lunch, drive, gas up, drive, gas up, drive, gas up, drive, gas up, drive gas up. Go talk about your video with a pro coach in between..

14th:
Drive, gas up, drive, gas up, drive, gas up, drive, gas up, drive gas up, lunch, drive, gas up, drive, gas up, drive, gas up, drive, gas up, drive gas up. Go talk about your video with a pro coach in between..

ProCoach

Yep. That's about right...

GT3DE

Here is your schedule:
1) Go to meeting in morning. Bull**** with other drovers.
2) Take car on track. Get passed by World Famous Trakcar. Take car in pit. Check tires. Get more gas. Drink water. Bull**** with other drovers.
3) repeat #2 all day long.

TRAKCAR

LOL ^^

mdrums

Great work Clarke and VR! I want to sign up for this for sure but things last week changed with a few of the lines I rep (possibly for the good but need to see how things shake out) so I'm in limbo for a few weeks right now.
It would be a long drive from Tampa to COTA in the "wanna be gt3".

ProCoach

I spent all day yesterday painstakingly studying detailed site maps for each corner, reviewing selected videos and having my simulation driving client burn through more than two tanks of gas driving around COTA in a Viper ACR-X (similar to his Z-06). This is going to be a great challenge for folks to do well...

Matt's driving is good (and entertaining), but shows up the great challenge people are going to have driving this course.

First, you're going to need to realize that some of these corners are VERY slow in a street car, even a very high performance street car. People are going to have a very hard time stringing laps togethers in two separate, multi-corner complexes, let alone a few tough, individual corners.

Heck, Lewis Hamilton does only 43 mph vMin in T1 and T20 and only 37 mph at T11 IN HIS FORMULA ONE CAR. So what does that mean for you? It means PATIENCE and first things, first. GET the car TURNED.

Second, it's going to be tough deciphering the sight lines to identify with certainty and without delay or hesitation the corners you are approaching, because several entries look very similar with DIFFERENT outcomes and topography! Best part is that it's going to be tough to hit anything. (There, I've said it!)

Lastly, the car behavior in the sim is good enough so you can hear the tires yell according to the speed and topography of the track (reflecting grip level) and the times are near exact match with recorded data from real cars. John did over two hundred miles yesterday virtually and he had a pretty good rhythm by the end. He was up nearly a second over his best (as indicated on the predictive lap timing in the sim) when he ran out of gas between T19-T20 on a 2:22 lap. Pretty stout!

One of the reasons why this track is so cool is because it's HARD! The challenge to learn it, let alone come close to mastering it, is extreme and sure to draw folks for a long time.

I will be supporting this event, tentatively, as the newest "Preferred Technology Partner" of David Murry Track Days.

If you wish to purchase (or rent, subject to availability) a video/data logging system from Traqmate/GoPro/RePlay HD or Video VBOX Lite or AiM Solo DL and SmartyCam HD or MoTeC CDL, let me know and we can set that up. I offer training, as part of coaching reservations, to divine from your existing video/data logging system where you can safely go faster.

Of course, David Murry is available throughout the event for expert, pro driver review of your video and data, from whatever system you have.

I also have the most detailed notes and pre-event training plan to help my clients hit the ground running for this event. If you're interested in leveraging the terrific track time available at DMTD, I can help.

RSRanger

Sounds intense and awesome all at once. Reminds me back at Ft. Bragg when you tried to do as many jumps in one day as you could get in a C130.
(btw biggest thrill you can have without taking your pants off)
I guess that's worth the $900 bucks and the 1,400 mile trip.
How many cars at once on the track?

Ranger (Sua Sponte)

TRAKCAR

Great deal, awesome track, good time of the year to be in TX, what's not to like!!

Nizer

Any hotel suggestions closer than 20miles?

drl

This is a good question. I do "open" track days with 12-20 cars, but how do you manage this with...80 cars?