Gingerman Tips / Tactics
05-12-2011, 10:36 AM
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Would love to, but that pesky family reunion on my wife's side might be a hurdle to high to overcome....
they used to run evening hours for a very reduced rate, which might work for me after baseball season is over....
they used to run evening hours for a very reduced rate, which might work for me after baseball season is over....
05-15-2011, 11:50 AM
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I headed home Saturday morning - my car wouldn't run right when we pulled it off the trailer. Wouldn't rev over 3k w/o stumbling or rev at all with significant throttle. I got to run the enduro race that evening as I codrive with a friend. Another 944 in my group blew his engine running in the enduro too so it wasn't just me. Weird being home so early from a race weekend.
06-06-2011, 04:55 PM
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Update: I read what was given and watched a lot of video to get an idea of the track and segregate it out into pertinent sections 1-2 complex, 3, 4-6, 7-9, 10, 11. By doing this I was able to figure out the corners that required the "technical" approach and was able to get up to speed quickly.
I started out Friday running a couple of sessions in the test / tune. I will say my first several laps were not fun as I did not realize how bumpy the track was and that simply being a mere 1' over more lead to different bumps at different intervals and different car attitude. After a spin that day I was finally getting the track and running some pretty respectable times (1:54). By Saturday I was able to get the times down to 1:52. By Sunday I was at 1:51. The best laptime in my group was a high 1:49 but the rest of the group was running low 1:51 / high 1:50s. We were also much faster than the Miatas with only 3 of them able to come close to our times. I finished the weekend with two 3rd places and a 4th. I also got much faster as a driver and much more aggressive. I also have to give a big shout out to Nick from BENMS.com as he put in his spare motor "his baby" in my car as he didn't have time to rebuild mine. I couldn't have raced without doing so.
I started out Friday running a couple of sessions in the test / tune. I will say my first several laps were not fun as I did not realize how bumpy the track was and that simply being a mere 1' over more lead to different bumps at different intervals and different car attitude. After a spin that day I was finally getting the track and running some pretty respectable times (1:54). By Saturday I was able to get the times down to 1:52. By Sunday I was at 1:51. The best laptime in my group was a high 1:49 but the rest of the group was running low 1:51 / high 1:50s. We were also much faster than the Miatas with only 3 of them able to come close to our times. I finished the weekend with two 3rd places and a 4th. I also got much faster as a driver and much more aggressive. I also have to give a big shout out to Nick from BENMS.com as he put in his spare motor "his baby" in my car as he didn't have time to rebuild mine. I couldn't have raced without doing so.
06-07-2011, 10:10 AM
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Joel - nice work! Any time you can outrun the best SM's in a 944 Spec car, you are hauling the mail! Your "all in" commitment this year is paying off.
Thanks for stepping up as the series director for this event, too!
Thanks for stepping up as the series director for this event, too!
