[CanAm]

Originally Posted by BMAN

^ so you're coming to the Glen? Awesome!

Great to meet you! Hope you enjoyed our ride

Oh, you're BMAN - great meeting you too! Didn't just enjoy our ride, it was awesome! I won't be foolish enough to try to emulate what you did, but it's still good to see how things are done at higher speed. I may be atypical in highlighting shifting, but the speed and accuracy of your heel/toe downshifting, while under perfect threshold braking, simply made my jaw drop with awe. Humbling stuff ...

If you'll be at the Glen, please save a spot to take me for another ride! Only for instructional purposes, of course.

[tdatk]

Originally Posted by Irfan

This is my first post here, and Shenandoah was my first DE with PCA. Took me about 3 sessions to get a decent grasp of the track, but after that I had a fantastic time and loved the track. Tim Atkinson was my instructor, and he was outstanding - taught me so much, and made me considerably faster than I ever could have been on my own. I drove a white Cayman (wife's) on Saturday and brown 911 cab on Sunday. Though the 911 is heavier, I think I still enjoyed the 911 more.

I enjoyed seeing many of you there, including some familiar faces from autocrosses, and I look forward to seeing many of you at Watkins Glen. I'm hooked and will be doing a lot of track days this season!

Irfan

Glad to see you found us. You did a fantastic job last weekend, made my job a lot eaiser and you were doing very well by Sunday. I look forward to seeing you at Watkins Glen.

[BMAN]

Originally Posted by Irfan

I won't be foolish enough to try to emulate what you did,

Hey, I was only following your instructor's directions Seriously, I am sorry the communicator stopped working because I really wanted to talk you through the laps we ran. I am glad you enjoyed it but I think you would have gotten more out of it if the communicator was working.

Sorry, I won't have a passenger seat at the Glen. Nor would I want anyone in the car with me.....it's a wild ride.

[CanAm]

Originally Posted by tdatk

Glad to see you found us. You did a fantastic job last weekend, made my job a lot eaiser and you were doing very well by Sunday. I look forward to seeing you at Watkins Glen.

Thanks for pointing me to this forum. Makes a lot of sense to chat with people we actually know, rather than anonymous people in the national/international forums.

Great instruction always makes the student look better ... if the student is willing to learn.

Looking forward to seeing you at WG too. Assuming BMAN won't let me ride strapped to the top of his car, maybe you can take me for an instructional ride.

BTW, I did make it to Summit main this week. Was a chance of thunderstorms, but the weather turned out to be great.

[CanAm]

Originally Posted by BMAN

Hey, I was only following your instructor's directions Seriously, I am sorry the communicator stopped working because I really wanted to talk you through the laps we ran. I am glad you enjoyed it but I think you would have gotten more out of it if the communicator was working.

Sorry, I won't have a passenger seat at the Glen. Nor would I want anyone in the car with me.....it's a wild ride.

The communicator would have been nice, but I was watching intently, and our discussion after the session was very helpful. Thanks again for the ride!

BTW, I see that you're in Baltimore. I'm just north of Baltimore.

[ausgeflippt951]

Originally Posted by Irfan

Great instruction always makes the student look better ... if the student is willing to learn.

SHHHHH! Not so loud -- dammit now my secret is out.

[tdatk]

Originally Posted by Irfan

Thanks for pointing me to this forum. Makes a lot of sense to chat with people we actually know, rather than anonymous people in the national/international forums.

Great instruction always makes the student look better ... if the student is willing to learn.

Looking forward to seeing you at WG too. Assuming BMAN won't let me ride strapped to the top of his car, maybe you can take me for an instructional ride.

BTW, I did make it to Summit main this week. Was a chance of thunderstorms, but the weather turned out to be great.

I'll be glad to take you out, might even get you as a stu again..
I think you picked up on one of the most important things about this stuff, controlling the speed demon, maintaining an open mind and focus on CONSISTENT,CONTROLLED smooth laps. It seems slow at first until your consistent lap after lap, then you notice your catching and passing other cars with half the effort it took before. Dog knows (and some of my former instructors) that I certainly could have done alot better with my focus.
See you at the Glen!

[CanAm]

Originally Posted by tdatk

I'll be glad to take you out, might even get you as a stu again..
I think you picked up on one of the most important things about this stuff, controlling the speed demon, maintaining an open mind and focus on CONSISTENT,CONTROLLED smooth laps. It seems slow at first until your consistent lap after lap, then you notice your catching and passing other cars with half the effort it took before. Dog knows (and some of my former instructors) that I certainly could have done alot better with my focus.
See you at the Glen!

"When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast." - Alain Prost

[Trak Ratt]

Originally Posted by tdatk

I'll be glad to take you out, might even get you as a stu again..
I think you picked up on one of the most important things about this stuff, controlling the speed demon, maintaining an open mind and focus on CONSISTENT,CONTROLLED smooth laps. It seems slow at first until your consistent lap after lap, then you notice your catching and passing other cars with half the effort it took before. Dog knows (and some of my former instructors) that I certainly could have done alot better with my focus.
See you at the Glen!

Jeeez, now where did you pickup that clap

[tdatk]

Originally Posted by Trak Ratt

Jeeez, now where did you pickup that clap

Some wiseass instructor once tried to drill that into my stubborn head.
See even a dog that continues to crap on the rug can still be beaten enough to learn something.