Maybe i saw him the only time he was drifting but he was definitely trying to drift doing that weight transfer shit before the corners that drifters do - I can’t remember what it’s called
there is no reaason to shoot outside briefly before a turn when you’re gripping.
starting a drift before the apex is pretty tricky unless you’re attempting to do it.
Also, the other funky move he pulled that I didn’t go in to detail was that he spun out ahead of me after the carosel (sp?) and instead of taking it easy and getting off the track so i could pass I had to hit the brakes because he thought it would be a good idea to start doing smokey donuts in the middle of the track.
Anyway, I believe he was spoken to about it and I never saw any issues from him after that.
You definitely need an alignment or something man, I was in a stock SR w/ sidemount, stock brakes and mismatched street tires when Varun was driving (fobwall’s car w/ advan 3 spokes) and he dialed you two guys in the skylines in pretty easily you’ve got all of the goodies on the car to have a beat so i imagine after some suspension/alignment tuning you would be crazzzyy fast out there.
Hey Jammin, I’m glad to hear Varun had no trouble running us down while we were stuck in traffic Dave’s GTR is plenty fast with an open track in front.
hah, I may not remember the situation exactly but I believe all 3 of us passed a few cars and although he didn’t pass you guys he stayed right on dave’s ass the whole time.
haha, i need to stop talking shit im going to get varun in trouble haha
no seriously though, it would be awesome to see some actual heads up competition for once. we should put a few heads together and put together an elimination time attack lapping day with a larger volume of participants and lower entry fee with some small prizes, etc. that would be a great time.
Haha you guys always testing…did I have the 4-ways on? Vassago can bang a gear and his SR20/RPS13 had lots of trouble AND THAT THING WAS HOOKED-UP SON!
Those RE-01Rs I dunno? They are really nice on the street, spirited driving but at the track they were protesting after some laps, howling and understeering. The NITTO R-comps are unstoppable.
I’m bringing a stopwatch Aug 6, hopefully a volunteer can get some clean laps…I think the open wheelers do 1:09:00?
EDIT: You know what was a big surprise though, the Purple Civic Coupe & the Golf 1.8T.
dip i was talking to some of the boys about this… that would be totally fun to do.
damn 1:09 is fast, on the june day walter was doing 1:22 or so timed by a stop watch on his ka-t w/ t25, sidemount, poopy mismatched street tires, etc.
i timed a bunch of the faster cars and he was the fastest i timed but i never got to time a good lap of the red 944 without him hitting traffic somewhere along the way.
properly organized with 40 people lined up you could have probably at least 4 guys going at a time without any concern of them getting held up by the guy in front of them unless someone stops for one reason or another.
that means 20 seconds between each start, i doubt even the fastest guy vs. the slowest could gain 20 seconds in one lap right?
thats less than 17 minutes to go through a lineup of 50 people which is 14 laps per person unless they have difficulties and dont get right back in the line. This is assuming you run 4 hours straight. So if you show up early you would likely get a bunch more runs than the people who show up a bit late when the line is short you’d get them much more often. As people blow up their cars or dont jump back in line you would also get several more. Realistically if you have a smooth day of constant driving and show up on time you probably get 20+ laps.
but, in order for dip to bring in the same money every only needs to pay $45 instead of $70 since theres more people. (unless there are costs such as insurance which would go up as well, i dont know anything about that stuff). This is based on the last day of 32 participants * $70/each.
hell, make it $50 and the top 5 guys could win their admission back @ $50/each.
I kind of like this idea, but I don’t think we should do it all day. The idea of running only one or two laps at a time does not appeal to me. Part of the challenge is driving your car in such a way as to be able to run 20 laps without burning up your car or loosing focus. I think we should set it up so that we all do 2 timed laps each, preferably later in the day. That way we have some time to free lap and work on our setup. Thats what a lapping day is all about
you’ve got all of the goodies on the car to have a beat so i imagine after some suspension/alignment tuning you would be crazzzyy fast out there.
Dave’s GTR is plenty fast with an open track in front.