My friends are such bastards . . .

NO SCOTCH FOR YOU



Now, go buy a DL-1 or tell me why I can't send a 7.9 Meg file to Dave because the message claims it is over the 10 meg limit.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! This place rocks.

 

well, I guess I really am not trail braking in very many places at VIR after all. Here is the plot of lateral vs. longitudinal Gs. In theory, it should be a circle. The shape of the right side is explained by the difficulty of generating positive gs under acceleration in a n/a 944. The shape of the left side shows that I am not doing too much braking and turning at the same time or else it would be more rounded, or so I think.

 

[nasally...]
i think this piece comes from his 'green period'....

 

Here is the track map. The charts start with Marker 1 (the red arrow) at the left and represent one complete lap.

 

ROTFLMMFAO.

Todd, if you ever get the chance, try to hook up throttle position & brake position sensors. They are, IMO, by far THE most valuable inputs for track data you can possibly have. The first time I used data, and looked at all the places where I thought I was flat but wasn't...and where I was braking like I was wearing your skirt was humbling, to say the least.

 

Believe it or not, I already own (1) a steering angle sensor; (2) brake pressure sensor; (3) throttle position sensor; (4) clutch in/out sensor; and the Dash2 digital display. I just haven't gotten around to install the yet because, for the most part, I don't need data to tell me where I need to improve. They are immensely fun as toys, though.

OK, here are the g plots for each segment of the track marked above. I wonder how much of the difference over this past weekend was due to brand new RA1s as compared to the scrubbed (and very good) RA1s I used in August and April? Who knows.

 

Bleh. Looks like:

 

Who told you that you had permission to post pictures of my sensors?

P.S. Please don't turn me into child welfare services . . .

 

EUREKA.

I finally get it.

Careful examination for sector 8 -- rollercoaster -- reveals that, in the immortal words of Groucho Marx, "Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped."

See? Data can be useful even to newbies.

 

Did you draw that during a billable hour?

 

Nope. Lunch. Although I used to be an Architect so it takes me no time at all to punch out beautiful artwork like that.

 

hilarious

 

hey rob, your car looks good on a moody drab background... pretty cool. like it better than pics of it on a sunny day!

 

Seeing your evident architectural talent, I'll bet you also designed the Clinton Presidential Library too, right?