Dorkiphus.net - View Single Post - March 31 Potomac DE
View Single Post
  #180  
Old 04-03-2012, 08:51 AM
forklift's Avatar
forklift forklift is offline
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Skull Island
Posts: 1,109
forklift
Default

Great weekend as everyone said. Got to ride w/ Arob, Dr. K, Nader and Larry and all are driving very well.

As Bob and Eric pointed out the 3 of us had a few sessions where we would leap-frog in corners...one of the laps on Friday resulted in the best times of the weekend trying to keep up w/ each other (and my PB). It probably looked like NASA comp school to the flaggers and was a blast.

Haven't looked at data yet and only ran video the last session on Sat-Sun (w/ best time on Fri) but I have the G2X screen positioned so I can see the speeds in corners (my cheap trackvision/ smartycam) and it looks like the wing cost me 4-5 mph on the main straight or 132-133 now down from 136-137 even though I can now brake later. Since top speed at the end of long straights is the biggest 964 weakness in H class I'm going to have to test it w/o the wing element and see if that improves top speed w/o hurting cornering speeds....which were slightly higher this weekend in most corners from what I saw but I have more rubber now also. I'm glad the times are decent w/ a lower top speed but probably need to get the top speed up for racing so I don't get passed (as often) under braking.

Anyway, again great weekend and good seeing everyone. Special props (and thanks ) to Vicegrip for his parallel parking skills.

Congrats to the new instructors!
__________________
Jim, ex P-car: 93 RSA, G stock #222
Reply With Quote