BMW Texas Trifecta March 20-22, 2015
03-24-2015, 10:48 AM
#46
.I do have to admit, my student's bone stock 2011 M3 DCT was a hoot as well. Lots of giddy up, grip, and stop.
-Mike
03-24-2015, 11:10 PM
#47
Three Wheelin'
I see a friend of mine had a wild ride in the rain.
03-24-2015, 11:14 PM
#48
code brown
03-25-2015, 07:55 AM
#50
Phenomenal job at the two feet in and keeping it going straight to maximize the run out space. Speaking of run out space, it looks like he used 90-95% of it.
I know when driving it that day that I was very careful at brake application because I didn't want the car squirrely in that narrow chute. Makes me kind of glad my car topped out at about a 125 there too.
-Mike
03-25-2015, 08:40 AM
#52
Rennlist Member
Crikey! Love the commentary...
03-25-2015, 09:56 AM
#53
03-25-2015, 12:34 PM
#54
Drifting
Great Save. No other track I can think of is that safe w/ run off...
03-26-2015, 07:43 PM
#56
I think Ralph takes the cake for the best pucker video from last weekend in the wet. My stuff in the wet is more of a comedy of errors.
First time in a race car in the wet. Race car here means a car w/o a defroster. The session started out well enough, bagged a Corvette on the out lap in the last instructor group run on Friday and then didn't finish the lap:
The camera could see better than I could. By the time I got to T19 it was total whiteout. I drove in the pit using the open driver's window.
Saturday morning, I got a little smarter and installed a defogger:
I guess I need to go back and read those RL fog prevention threads.
Finally, I think one of the reasons it was so bad was that by Saturday afternoon I had two inches of water back in the spare tire well. What I didn't know until today, was I had a lot of water in the floor pan too. Check out the passenger side floorboard in this clip just before I catch the step out in T20:
Do they make bilge pumps for track cars?
As a side note I was using new NT-01s as wets and the performance was less than spectacular. A decent set of street tires would have done better.
-Mike
First time in a race car in the wet. Race car here means a car w/o a defroster. The session started out well enough, bagged a Corvette on the out lap in the last instructor group run on Friday and then didn't finish the lap:
The camera could see better than I could. By the time I got to T19 it was total whiteout. I drove in the pit using the open driver's window.
Saturday morning, I got a little smarter and installed a defogger:
I guess I need to go back and read those RL fog prevention threads.
Finally, I think one of the reasons it was so bad was that by Saturday afternoon I had two inches of water back in the spare tire well. What I didn't know until today, was I had a lot of water in the floor pan too. Check out the passenger side floorboard in this clip just before I catch the step out in T20:
Do they make bilge pumps for track cars?
As a side note I was using new NT-01s as wets and the performance was less than spectacular. A decent set of street tires would have done better.
-Mike
03-27-2015, 11:02 AM
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Thanks to all the volunteers.
No personal records set, but that's -- I have to tell myself -- not the only requirement for fun! I enjoyed the lack of apex pyramids in many places. The esses were even straighter...
As a side-note, that marks my 5th consecutive event at COTA with rain...
No personal records set, but that's -- I have to tell myself -- not the only requirement for fun! I enjoyed the lack of apex pyramids in many places. The esses were even straighter...
As a side-note, that marks my 5th consecutive event at COTA with rain...
