Pocono Long Course
08-21-2006, 02:47 PM
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Pocono Long Course
Short video of a couple of laps around Pocono Long (997 Carrera S)
http://homepage.mac.com/c.gomez/.Pub...08-19-2006.mov
It's more fun than what the layout shows as the entries from the Speedway are very tricky and the key for a fast lap.
For those who know Pocono but have never done this configuration, it is North Infield in reverse, Speedway bridge turn and straight into the South Course infield and back on the Main striaght towards North.
http://homepage.mac.com/c.gomez/.Pub...08-19-2006.mov
It's more fun than what the layout shows as the entries from the Speedway are very tricky and the key for a fast lap.
For those who know Pocono but have never done this configuration, it is North Infield in reverse, Speedway bridge turn and straight into the South Course infield and back on the Main striaght towards North.
08-21-2006, 03:53 PM
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How did you like those bumps entering the south course? It feels like my car is airbourne from the right hander until the left. Great track to focus on ocular driving techniques because the two entries you refer to require you look well around the corners to find track out. Definitely a track/course where you need to run with someone, because you max out the course quickly. Pocono is a track you want to triangulate the corners and as a result hard on brakes and tires.
08-21-2006, 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by renvagn
How did you like those bumps entering the south course? It feels like my car is airbourne from the right hander until the left. Great track to focus on ocular driving techniques because the two entries you refer to require you look well around the corners to find track out. Definitely a track/course where you need to run with someone, because you max out the course quickly. Pocono is a track you want to triangulate the corners and as a result hard on brakes and tires.
Seriously, it is bad. I can imagine a real racecar being quite a handful over those.
My front wheels definetively caught a lot of air through the South Course infield.. Quite a jump, but just keep it planted in a 911 and you will survive.
As you say, it is very hard to gage the entry from the 100ft wide speedway into the 20ft wide infields; specially going into South where I was close to redline i 5th before braking. I'm good at looking waaay ahead, but this was certainly difficult in that section. The apex is at a depression going into the South Course and behind the pitwall going into the North Course.
08-21-2006, 11:36 PM
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Couldn't open your vid, but have my own video from the EMRA enduro that started at 5 p.m. Of course, the rain started at 4:30, so I would have appreciated PASM in my 968. 
Considering the conditions, the race was basically incident free, with a few spins, but no wrecks. And, I think the racers took real care with their passes (mostly restricted to the front and back straights).
Around the mid-way mark to the race end, there was standing water after the left-hand turn that preceded the right-hand entry onto the back straight. And there was a 75 foot wide "river" that flowed down the banking across the back straight about 1/3 of the way on that portion of the course. Throughout the race, traction remained good in the chute before the left-hand turn that preceded exit onto the front straight.
I don't have rain tires, but the Hoosier 06's were decent so long as I respected the surface conditions, which I did.
While I wasn't crazy about that course configuration, everything turned out okay and the enduro was a very clean, safe race.
I notice that you're a New Yorker. Will you be at the Metro D.E. @ this weekend? If you're there, come say "hello".
Considering the conditions, the race was basically incident free, with a few spins, but no wrecks. And, I think the racers took real care with their passes (mostly restricted to the front and back straights).
Around the mid-way mark to the race end, there was standing water after the left-hand turn that preceded the right-hand entry onto the back straight. And there was a 75 foot wide "river" that flowed down the banking across the back straight about 1/3 of the way on that portion of the course. Throughout the race, traction remained good in the chute before the left-hand turn that preceded exit onto the front straight.
I don't have rain tires, but the Hoosier 06's were decent so long as I respected the surface conditions, which I did.
While I wasn't crazy about that course configuration, everything turned out okay and the enduro was a very clean, safe race.
I notice that you're a New Yorker. Will you be at the Metro D.E. @ this weekend? If you're there, come say "hello".
08-22-2006, 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by richard glickel.
Couldn't open your vid, but have my own video from the EMRA enduro that started at 5 p.m. Of course, the rain started at 4:30, so I would have appreciated PASM in my 968.
Considering the conditions, the race was basically incident free, with a few spins, but no wrecks. And, I think the racers took real care with their passes (mostly restricted to the front and back straights).
Around the mid-way mark to the race end, there was standing water after the left-hand turn that preceded the right-hand entry onto the back straight. And there was a 75 foot wide "river" that flowed down the banking across the back straight about 1/3 of the way on that portion of the course. Throughout the race, traction remained good in the chute before the left-hand turn that preceded exit onto the front straight.
I don't have rain tires, but the Hoosier 06's were decent so long as I respected the surface conditions, which I did.
While I wasn't crazy about that course configuration, everything turned out okay and the enduro was a very clean, safe race.
I notice that you're a New Yorker. Will you be at the Metro D.E. @ this weekend? If you're there, come say "hello".
Considering the conditions, the race was basically incident free, with a few spins, but no wrecks. And, I think the racers took real care with their passes (mostly restricted to the front and back straights).
Around the mid-way mark to the race end, there was standing water after the left-hand turn that preceded the right-hand entry onto the back straight. And there was a 75 foot wide "river" that flowed down the banking across the back straight about 1/3 of the way on that portion of the course. Throughout the race, traction remained good in the chute before the left-hand turn that preceded exit onto the front straight.
I don't have rain tires, but the Hoosier 06's were decent so long as I respected the surface conditions, which I did.
While I wasn't crazy about that course configuration, everything turned out okay and the enduro was a very clean, safe race.
I notice that you're a New Yorker. Will you be at the Metro D.E. @ this weekend? If you're there, come say "hello".
Definetively not my favorite circuit for a wet race. I'm glad there were no "events" and it was a safe race.
Yes, I will be next weekend at WGI. Will stop by your racecar to say Hi. Mine is a GT Silver 997S.
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08-29-2006, 02:06 PM
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More pocono full course video. I found the course more entertaining than either north or south, but I get bored at pocono. The music in the vid is not dubbed in, it was just a local pocono radio station. while driving. That was the white group with NNJR July '06.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...11550716&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...73836427&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...11550716&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...73836427&hl=en
08-29-2006, 02:16 PM
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...19997305&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...30110563&hl=en
A little WG vid for the Metro Folks, I was up at Mt. Tremblant last weeknd with Rennsport, long haul but a fun track. I was still getting used to it - this was in their black group where everyone was fast, esp. the GT3 in front of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6SVOV4RFVY
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...30110563&hl=en
A little WG vid for the Metro Folks, I was up at Mt. Tremblant last weeknd with Rennsport, long haul but a fun track. I was still getting used to it - this was in their black group where everyone was fast, esp. the GT3 in front of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6SVOV4RFVY
08-30-2006, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by DM993tt
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...19997305&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...30110563&hl=en
A little WG vid for the Metro Folks, I was up at Mt. Tremblant last weeknd with Rennsport, long haul but a fun track. I was still getting used to it - this was in their black group where everyone was fast, esp. the GT3 in front of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6SVOV4RFVY
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...30110563&hl=en
A little WG vid for the Metro Folks, I was up at Mt. Tremblant last weeknd with Rennsport, long haul but a fun track. I was still getting used to it - this was in their black group where everyone was fast, esp. the GT3 in front of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6SVOV4RFVY
That was your first time Driving @ Tremblant ?? Excellent Driving! Nice save @ 8 and again at the exit of 5. I actually remember watching you go sideways in my rear view mirror ( you're turning in too early for 5, take a breath , then turn).
I'm the guy in the yellow GT3 and I have more track miles there than anybody, in the last 3 years so, give yourself a pat on the back.
08-30-2006, 05:59 PM
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DM, you really need to change that camera angle. All you see is the rear view mirror. After watching a few minutes of the Glen video, I started getting a headache.
from what I could see, Mt. Tremblant looked fantastic.
Steve
from what I could see, Mt. Tremblant looked fantastic.
Steve
08-30-2006, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by smankow
DM, you really need to change that camera angle. All you see is the rear view mirror. After watching a few minutes of the Glen video, I started getting a headache.
from what I could see, Mt. Tremblant looked fantastic.
Steve
from what I could see, Mt. Tremblant looked fantastic.
Steve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS_FnJJRp50&NR
DM fixed the camera but now the audio gives me a headache! Did you tape a whole video camera to your roof or is it a bullet camera with a mic? I don't have much luck with my in car videos either.
Thanks a hell of a lot guys. Now I have to do a 10 + hour haul to Mt. Tremblant. 
