Texas Two Step...pics n vids
02-04-2013, 05:40 PM
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yea that lady got me going when i saw her on sunday morning. i was a zombie coming in that morning after hanging with nick, miguel, and steve at the W in downtown Austin. Austin was a really fun town. it was good to have a track close to a big city
and talk about cities, it felt like i saw every major college town on the way there and back. i rolled through alabama, texas, baylor, texas a & m, and many more schools
and talk about cities, it felt like i saw every major college town on the way there and back. i rolled through alabama, texas, baylor, texas a & m, and many more schools
02-04-2013, 05:40 PM
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nugget is was good to me along with the other rennlist guys. for the most part there and not all the time but there is a car that hits the wall, someone spits fluid, and someone gets complaints about being the douche in the group
02-04-2013, 05:45 PM
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02-04-2013, 06:21 PM
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Seemed like a typical DE to me. There's always at least one car getting munched. And there's always people running in groups that they shouldn't be in doing things that they're not supposed to. Even PBOC super solo, which is hand picked invite only has it's fair share of shenanigans.
02-04-2013, 06:34 PM
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I don't think I've been to a track event in a long long time where someone didn't ball their car up. The COTA guys should be very pleased with the way the whole thing went off. Especially considering almost nobody there had been on the track before and were all learning. yea that lady got me going when i saw her on sunday morning. i was a zombie coming in that morning after hanging with nick, miguel, and steve at the W in downtown Austin. Austin was a really fun town. it was good to have a track close to a big city
and talk about cities, it felt like i saw every major college town on the way there and back. i rolled through alabama, texas, baylor, texas a & m, and many more schools
and talk about cities, it felt like i saw every major college town on the way there and back. i rolled through alabama, texas, baylor, texas a & m, and many more schools
On the run what you brung thing... Ummmm yeah. Trying to pull a Greek?
Two classes. Those running with Hoosiers. Those without. Cars are close enough for gov't work. Night and day between tire choices. Especially there.
In the Nitto/Toyo Class, it went like this: Nick, DD, Randy, Jenks, and then Steve.
In the Hoosier class of 2, it went Randy. And once again, then Steve
I think Randy took overall out of all the RL's there in Steve's car on Hoosiers with a 27.1 or something like that.
I knocked almost 2 seconds off down to a 1:31.1 by making some really simple adjustments. TrakCar told me a long time ago... Quit switching things all the time. Stick with one setup and leave it alone
02-04-2013, 06:41 PM
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I will respectfully disagree, particularly wrt cars getting wrecked. Yes, it happens, but at the events that I instruct at, it's more like once a year, not once every event. I know, because particularly at the PCA events I work, I have to do the damn paperwork when someone wrecks.
However, at Sebring, Daytona, Road Atlanta, Laguna, Roebling, Barber, Homestead, PBIR.... The consequences are high if you take your eyes off the ball. I've personally seen at least once and in come cases many times, cars being completely totaled at every one of those tracks at an event I attended. I'm not sure when my last track day was that someone's car didn't get crunched.... Just in the last few months saw a couple GT3's bite it at Sebring, a cup car at Roebling, and BMW rolled at Road Atlanta, and then obviously COTA there were two or 3.
02-04-2013, 06:51 PM
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Yea mike, it makes a difference on which track it is. You go off at TWS and your cleaning your car for a week trying to get sand and dirt out from the inside. You go off at my home track road atlanta and it can get ugly.
02-04-2013, 07:03 PM
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True enough guys. I forget how spoiled I am by our relatively benign track.
02-04-2013, 09:27 PM
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In Steve's defense, he kind of screwed himself switching to Hoosiers. There was almost no way he was going to beat Randy in the same car on the same tires. If he had stayed with the Nitto's, he would have most certainly best my time by mere virtue of figuring out how to drive those tires on that track. It should also be noted that he missed out on some primo information I got from Seth Thomas and Nick on Sunday by leaving early I knocked almost 2 seconds off down to a 1:31.1 by making some really simple adjustments.
TrakCar told me a long time ago... Quit switching things all the time. Stick with one setup and leave it alone
I knocked almost 2 seconds off down to a 1:31.1 by making some really simple adjustments. TrakCar told me a long time ago... Quit switching things all the time. Stick with one setup and leave it alone
02-04-2013, 09:36 PM
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I think it was there inexperience with DE's. They had no clue what to do. It took all day Saturday of explaining proper flags for them to get it. The last day, Sunday was a whole lot better, but still not great.
Almost rear ended Izzone exiting 1 on a sudden red flag. Started screaming at the corner worker, while Izzone was catching his breath from how close it was. The cause of the red flag? A guy going off track 8 turns later....
Next session, as you can see in Jenks video, jenks and I are full throttle at 140 mph when all of a sudden we see 6 cars parked on the racing line. We had to swerve to the left to avoid them. Again, very dangerous.
Almost rear ended Izzone exiting 1 on a sudden red flag. Started screaming at the corner worker, while Izzone was catching his breath from how close it was. The cause of the red flag? A guy going off track 8 turns later....
Next session, as you can see in Jenks video, jenks and I are full throttle at 140 mph when all of a sudden we see 6 cars parked on the racing line. We had to swerve to the left to avoid them. Again, very dangerous.