[savowood]

Hi gang

It has been a difficult past few months. I've been reading the stories of how you guys are all out at the track, working on shaving tenths, learning about TTO, better lines through The Chute and the short straight from T5 yo T6. Meanwhile, I haven't been doing any track time at all as July and August is a bad time to be running really hard here in the hea(r)t of Texas.

This week it finally got over 100. It was about 102 this afternoon when I finally got a little time to acquaint myself with the track just south of Austin called Harris Hill Road. It's a very fun course. Today was my second time out there, but running the reverse direction. Today only about 15 minutes on track, but I've spent a total of about 30 minutes running the course, so I don't have it down as much as I'd like just yet.

The down side is, I couldn't take the Boxsera out there. The road leading up to H2R is being repaved, and there's no way I'd be able to make it over the gravel mountain. I had asked the owner of the track if he thought I could make it on Hoosiers in the P-car. He just laughed. I took the Jetta TDI Cup.

Here's video of a decent lap. It's a very fun course, although not very fast. If anyone has a Spec Boxster they'd like to bring down here, the owner wants to see how well it will perform against a Spec MX-5 (not Spec Miata).

YouTube- Harris Hill Road - Jetta TDI Cup Street Edition

YouTube- Harris Hill Road - Jetta TDI Cup Street Edition