Track: Laguna
Seca
Event: Touring
Car Club
Date: 12-16/12-17/00
Temp: low 50's hitting mid 60's.
Best Lap Time: 1:46.20. Done with Long Acre Hot Lap timer
w/an in car display. (new toy!)
Summary:
What you're about to see below is me
learning to drive my car again. The front has been replaced, the
chassis has been stiffened and a 5pt harness was added. The harness
was an immediate difference and I don't think I could recommend this
enough for the avid open tracker. No longer do I get out of the car
and grab my left knee in agony. My grip on the steering wheel
loosened up a lot as well. Both of these made for feeling the car
and attempting to be smooth, much more enjoyable.
As a result of me not being used to the
harness, I managed to miss shift into third many times. I don't
think I ended up converting any. I wanted to put together a nice
.mpg of them all but my editing software sucks on Win2k Advanced
Server. Anywho....the tranny took some serious abuse and I'm not
sure it's got much left in it. Look for it in Broken
Parts in the next month or two.
Rob and I are set to run Jan 13th @
LSIR again with TCC. I'm going to have some new Yok A032R's and I
think Rob's going to running his first event on R's. Hopefully!
Enjoy the footage!
e-mail me if a link doesn't work: slib
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| A lap with Rob during the
first session. |
Rob-Slib
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Rob-Slib-High
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| I don't recommend doing this
at your next track event. |
Slib-D1-S1-hands.mpg
1.3mb |
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| Race prepped M3 from T2-T5 |
Slib-M3
3.6mb |
Slib-M3-High
7.2mb |
| Passing a NSX and regaining
ground lost on the Red C5 |
Slib-NSX-RedVette
6.4mb |
Slib-NSX-RedVette-High
12.3mb |
| Some might think that I'd
have a hard time loosing traction....I don't. |
Slib-T11
1mb |
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| A few people kept saying
that this was a Z06 but I think it's a C5. |
Slib-RedC5
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Slib-RedC5-High
16.2mb |
| Smile.....You're on TVR
Camera! |
Smile
7.9mb |
Smile-High
16mb |
| Here's how a nice red Viper
GTS does on the straights. I'm just glad he took it easy through the
corners. |
Slib-Viper
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Slib-Viper-High
8.2mb |
| This includes footage of the
ONE Supra that was out representing. Rick with his 400 RWHP puts it
to use during the T4-T5 passing zone. I follow Rick for a while and
end up passing a great looking NSX at the end. |
Slib-Supra-Rick
11.3mb |
Slib-Supra-Rick-High
22.5mb |
| Rick had made it through
this traffic and I had to make my move in the passing zone that I
disliked. |
Slib-T5
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| This is Scott and his 400HP
AWD Turbo Carrera. I felt lucky running on R compound tires. We were
turning 1:48 lap times during this session |
Slib-Scott
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Slib-Scott-High
9.8mb |
| Waiting for Scott (behind
me) and me, Rick takes off around a miata to lead us around a lap. |
Slib-Rick-Scott
8.4mb |
Slib-Rick-Scott-High
16.3mb |
| A stock Gold GT lets us go
by. |
Slib-GoldGT
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Slib-GoldGT-High
4.6mb |
| The fourth Session was only
10 minutes long. Here's a SS that is NOT stock.....watch the C5 in
front of him. |
Slib-SS-C5
2.6mb |
Slib-SS-C5-High
5.2mb |
| Waiting to enter the track
on Sunday. |
Slib-Sunday
Start 4.4mb |
Slib-Sunday
Start-High 8.7mb |
| The second lap and I'm
already trying to hit T6 with too much throttle. |
Slib-T6
1mb |
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| Third lap and I didn't learn
a damn thing from the last one. This was my last attempt to take the
corner with that much throttle. I need to spend some more time
learning where to turn in and how the car is going to handle before
I try this again. |
Slib-T6-Not
Learning 1.2.mb |
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| The end of the last session
pulling into the paddock. See if you can spot the Nissan Skyline. |
Slib-The
paddock 4mb |
Slib-The
Paddock-High 7.9mb |
| This is from T11 to T2.
Watch for the Z06 coming onto the track. Beautiful car. |
Slib-M3-Z06
1.3mb |
Slib-M3-Z06-High
2.6mb |
| This was my quickest lap for
the weekend. I picked up a 1:46.20 with the lap timer. It's not even
a clean lap....which is sad. |
Slib-Rick-146-L
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Slib-Rick-146-High
15.5mb |