John McM

As said before the FB Universe members choose to inhabit is fully controllable and FB pisses all over RL for usability. I like both sites but hands down FB is better for posting photos and videos, plus has a wider membership e.g. The 964 Group has 14,000+ members.

Looks like the 20th for the paddock gymkhana in BB, at least based on FB posts.

pcarplayer

More fodder for the haters. It was a pretty dumb place to be driving the way he was. It could have ended up so much worse and i think he got away pretty lucky

kiwi 911

^^^ Doesn't look to be actually going that quick looses it very early on the turn in??

Must have been going into the corner way too hot.........

kiwi 911

Porsche 929:

Macca

Definitely too hot. He's no Chris Harris behind the wheel.

Looks like 20th is a popular date!!

John McM

Yes, it seems to be. Obviously I have no car to take to the track so HD is out. I can drive the Cayenne to the Farm and meet the drive your Porsche Day theme, but it's not quite the same is it?

I don't think Herman will be back on the road until late October at this rate. This weekend I will do the control arm bushes. To be honest I still can't see why Dan called them out. I guess I will find out when I have the arms off.

996tnz

Yep, he looks to have been too focused on nailing that corner rather than looking far and well enough down the road to pick up that concrete coloured truck blocking his lane, with that concrete wall as a background behind it.

My take on it is that on finally seeing that parked truck and the opposing traffic he gives her a touch of brakes (or at least a sudden lift of the accelerator) just before the apex of that last turn and the back starts to step out as you'd expect. He looks to catch it with some (possibly too gradual?) countersteer but that carries him out too wide into the opposing lane and he ends up being pretty much forced to turn back in towards his own lane and brake before he's caught it properly, firing it into that final spin.

Without that touch of braking at the apex the car would almost certainly have made the turn in its own lane, though the usual and advised gentle roll on of acceleration needed for it to do that properly would then leave him limit braking to try to pull up before the truck, or more likely give that photographer a bit of a code brown moment as he cut right of the truck after scrubbing off most of his speed.

Driving slower and/or reading the road better further ahead would have avoided this of course but once he finally saw that situation, apart from avoiding the touch of brakes (or lift off the accelerator) at the apex I'm not sure most of us would have done much better at that speed once the rear came loose. At least the transporter took the other half of the final hit and not the Mercedes SL pagoda.

John McM

The FB commentary also focuses on the use of slicks on the road and the lack of traction on painted lines.

pcarplayer

He should have noticed the big **** truck parked there given it was his

Macca

If it were wet plausible. But it was dry and R comps stick fine to center line paint in the dry. He over cooked it, possibly also miss judged the length of corner simple as that...

Red 964 C2 on TM looks great. Assumes no prior accident history Id say a good buy for someone. Like the sport seats and personally impartial to lighter interiors in these small cars. Mileage at 198K km not far above other 964 in the group most of which seem to be averaging around 150k km these days etc Its good some money has been spent on the car over the last 20 years, however there is no doubt that any **** enthusiast will find abother 10K plus to get it just the way they wish it to be. Id imagine the auction will be well subscribed and id expect the car to go between 55-65K?

pcarplayer

On another note. Monkey Harris needs cash

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=401656&ty=h

pcarplayer

On another note. Monkey Harris needs cash

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=401656&ty=h

kiwi 911

^^^ I really enjoy his videos and personally think he should have replaced Jeremy Clarkson??

pcarplayer

I love his stuff. He says he personally likes the format hes doing at the moment. I suppose he has creative control and isn't editorialized

Here some (many) pix from the 2015 Porsche Werks Reunion (xpost for those not on FB). I' getting a real hankering for an outlaw 356

http://www.sportscardigest.com/porsc...rt-and-photos/

996tnz

Yes - based on that vid and a quick google of car 277 they look to be Hoosier R6s, DOT rated semi-slicks with two circumferential grooves that rate close to Hankook Z221s for grip. Not recommended or approved for normal road use in most states despite their DOT rating, but still a brilliant tire to have under you in the dry.

The car didn't touch those rippled yellow lines until the rear had already let go with classic 911 lift off oversteer but they would've made tidy and quick recovery harder.

Looking at it again, the compression at the apex of the outside front that I first thought came from braking/lift-off may just have been some extra weight transfer resulting from clipping the apex a bit too tight and hitting a bump on the inside with the rear wheels (ie a jump drift).