Lemming

Registration opens tomorrow (1/24) at noon on clubregistration.net for our first DE of 2013. Groups 1 and possible 2 will sell out within the first day, so don't wait.

Lemming

Groups 1 and 2 are filled with waiting lists. Still room in the upper run groups.

Edit: Group 3 is now full. Still room for a few group 4 students as well as pre-approved instructors.

Lemming

Only a few spots left in group 4 (advanced students), groups 1-3 have waiting lists.

Lemming

Looks like we will have below freezing temperatures both Friday and Saturday night. Please remember that many R-compound tires do not like to get that cold, so plan accordingly. I've also been told that some fire bottles like to freeze and crack, but I cannot find any data on their freezing temperature.

Veloce Raptor

And some full slicks will crack and/or be otherwise unusable if exposed to prolonged sub-freezing temps.

Lemming

I'm leaving my Hankooks at home, NT01s state that below 15oF is a problem, see http://www.nittotire.com/content/pdf...itionTires.pdf

DOUGLAP1

I'm wondering what to do about tires for this event also.

I have some new Hoosier A6's ready to go, and thoght they would be great in the mid 40's high temps for the day, but I am worried about the freeze cracking issue.

Now I'm thinking of leaving my A6's home, and running on Dunlop Z1 street tires, but they generally like ambient temps above 70 F.

The only other choice I have is some POS Continental SportContact 2's that came with the car from the previous owner. If I had known it was going to be this cold, I might have replaced the Conti's with some Goodrich Comp 2's that seem to work good in cold.

Heck, we might need SNOW TIRES.

Lemming

A6's would work well doing the day, it's just not the best idea to leave them sitting out at night. There will likely be people at the track with enclosed trailers that have heat, you could leave them there overnight.

Lemming

Excellent weekend, hope everyone had fun. Temperatures were cold, but the track had quite a bit of grip, turns out that they "ground" the entire track a few weeks ago.

paver

Lemming, what did they do to the track? Can you explain what "ground" means.

Lemming

They used a drum grinder to remove all bumps (breaking bumps going into T1 for instance). They then used some type of circular grinder on the entire track. That's all I know about the process.

paver

Sounds good. More grip, less bumps(not that there were many to begin with). Thanks.

Lemming

I'm guessing that if we have good weather that we will see new track records in both Grand-Am and Indy this year.