Great fun this weekend despite the flippin heat. Here's a vid from way in the back. This was the craziest start I've ever had. I ended up using pit out! Then I have a few very intense laps chasing 93-Firehawk before I burned up my tires, blew turn two and they just left me behind. Has to be my most intense laps of my short career so far.

Paul, Paolo and a few others make appearances too.

Kudos to everyone on track for making it thru the first two laps clean

Here are the first few laps.

 

Hey buddy,

Great racing with you this weekend. I have to agree, that was a pretty hair racing start. I thought for sure I was going to get squeezed in T2 or the Chicane. Glad I snuck through. Still not sure how I popped ahead of everyone into T4.

Boy was it HOT! Thunderbolt was greasy all weekend! The back of my car was dancing around which it never does. I hope I don't find something broken or unbolted.


With that said, the Spec Boxster loved T1 to T5. We were able to gap cars there nearly every lap only to loose it from T9 back to T1. We Spec Boxster's had our hands full out there outgunned with every possible PCA Club race car mostly on Hoosiers and us trying to manage our low hp car on the R888s.

This is definite must do again, a very fun weekend.

 

Wow! The start was hectic, to say the least! 3 wide in turns, that must have been quite, hmm, interesting!!!

c.

 

Any time that pit out becomes race track it's interesting

 

Streak, Cool video......It was a blast racing with you guys. I watched some of my own video and it's lap 3 when my brakes begin to fail, it becomes a issue a lap or so later going thru the Jersey Devil when I try to pass on the inside and have to pump my pedal and the inside rear locks up. That's when I knew it was going to be interesting, I never get lock up with such light braking. Turn 1 for the rest of the race was a 'Pucker" moment. Ends up being a blown right front brake line.

Hope to see you in August.

 

I take avoiding action down pit lane and everyone follows....... streak you should be ashamed!

 

I was only emulating a superior driver Dan!

 

You are good at avoiding action! May post a few videos later this week.

 

Looks like a blast

I thought that line through pit out would have been good for lap 2

If I get on the other side of the curbing after 2 I'm just along for the ride.

 

Excellent racing. I was able to watch you guys that Saturday morning and I do agree that you guys had a difficult task, with all those high HP cups and rs's and blah blah blah, but you guys looked good out there. Also spoke with the driver of the martini cayman (if anyone knows him) very nice guy and was explaining how slippery the track was out there. It sure looked that way from the stands coming around the S turns

 

That may have been the slickest dry track I have ever raced on. I had 15hc Hoo's on Friday and I felt like I was on skates. Put stickers on Saturday and my best time dropped 4 seconds but the grip still felt ok at best.

I had overheating problems all weekend ( personally and the car ) but managed to have a handful of fun laps with Pete D and some other guys on Sunday before I had to back off. Can't wait to run NJMP without the Chicane next month.

 

Slick ain't the right word! The octopus was a skid pad and I have never four wheel drifted as much as when I came through the sharp left into the octopus (don't know turn numbers). My rear tires wore about twice as fast as the fronts with all the sliding around. Fun though!

 

Here is a short video of the PCA track record qualifying lap (tires did not get up to temp/pressure yet, last turn was slow) and the Saturday sprint race showing a textbook PCA passing rule issue.

Before the crash, I was willing to jump the curb to avoid Dan (always leave an out!) but he was aware and stayed wide, thanks!

 

What was the outcome of the hit at the end?

 

The white car was not allowed to race Sunday but not sure if he is on probation, PCA officials were looking for this video on Sunday and I just sent it to Bryan.