fleadh

Here's the first couple laps of in-car from my stint at Laguna Seca this last weekend in the Super Trofeo race. It's a cool series... the cars are lots of fun (and work!) to drive and the officials run a nice event. The mandatory pit stop times take a little getting used to, but I understand why they do it.


Approaching 150MPH into Turn 2....... after the first session I was complaining the brakes weren't very bitey and the braking zones felt too long. Then I looked at the data and realized what our approach speeds were into every braking zone. The cars have really good grip, but even more power than grip. Good times!

-mike

Frank 993 C4S

Nice!

mark kibort

150 into turn 2............cray cray! Great footage too! fllying!
btw, are you on the pirelli's in that series? (DH's?)

ProCoach

yesyoucan

mclaren senna (trofeo tires) was doing 156 to 161 mph towards turn 2 and making the turn the way it was supposed to.

ProCoach

McLaren Senna isn't doing 1:24.3-1:25.8, though...

yesyoucan

This is true. I was just referencing the speed into turn 2.

It'll be sub 1:27 on street tires on a day without having to deal with 90 db's and track all to itself. Amateur at an HPDE day driving his car for the first time with very few clean laps did a 1:32.5 .

paradocs98

Thanks for posting, Mike. AWD or RWD?

mark kibort

i dont think there is a chance he will be running that fast on street tires.. the lift at the tower is definitely a half second or so. but not 5 seconds faster. but, i sure would like to see it.. that means it might be 1:25 on slicks? that would be spectacular

fleadh

RWD only... it's a handful. :-)

-mike

mark kibort

How does it stack up to the ferrari? What was your best time for the weekend? one of our drivers from the last few SCCA races was running the older verson (2016) of the Lambo spec car... running 1:27xx's and guess what, only 15 years old! . he ran most of the season with us, and also ran that same time in the new , 2018 Lambo. Nice when Dad buys you some really cool toys! Steven is a nice kid. he is running the Lambo season next year.

mark kibort

Here is a good video of a P7 contender beginning of the race.

fleadh

Car has a lot more power than the 458 GT3 (with standard BoP, not uncorked) and the Lambo seemed that it liked to be over driven a little bit, but not *too* much. It was really good on the brakes, but didn't feel like it had huge downforce... and it was very aero sensitive when following another car through mid-high speed turns. Brakes were really really good. The TC was much better than the 458 GT3, but the newer GT3 cars all have excellent TC. The ABS was very good as well.

I think my best lap was a 25.0 or 25.3, I can't remember. I never really did a quali lap as I needed to save the tires for my co-driver (even in qualifying)... I burned up and destroyed the first set I went out on and got yelled at (in a friendly co-driver way). In race #2 I think I set the 4th fastest race lap which I was happy with being the first time racing the car. It takes a bit of a unique technique to go fast which I'm still learning. Hope I get to drive one again some time... it really is a lot of fun.

-mike

mark kibort

that is SO crazy! 1:25s. i remember when some of the prototypes were running in that range in the early 2000s .. aweseome! what a dream to drive a car like that in a race! the little i saw of the "kid" driving one in my race showed that it did most everything extremely well. (but i couldnt stick around very long to see much ) what pirellis are you on, the DH like WCGT or are you on a stickier compound?

edit: such a great video! perfect camera position , watched the entire segment!

fleadh

Ya, Pirelli DH. I think PWC is on DHC this year.

-mike