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03-23-2013, 12:39 PM | #45 | ||
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So was the E90 the car you had the incident with? I had a lot of trouble with turn 17 before the straight in my E92. I kept wanting to feed throttle but it wasn't wanting to go with so much steering input. |
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03-23-2013, 10:03 PM | #46 | |
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Yes, I ran out of talent in the 16/17 complex. I was applying more and more throttle entering 16. I was going pretty good and was flat in 3rd just a smidge before the apex. That didn't quite work out as well as I had intended...too much throttle and too much steering input.
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03-26-2013, 07:36 PM | #47 |
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I was there as well. Had a great time with the group except my car was overheating very easily. I could only get 2-3 hot laps before the overheating message popped on my i-Drive. I had to drive in 4-5th most of the time to manage this situation. You can see I'm driving in 5th from T10 all the way to T16 trying to cool down in the last lap of the video (~7:35). But it's all good... made me practice getting on the gas early since I had basically no torque coming out of the corners.
I let a good friend drive my car in the C group. That was his first time on track and he had a great time. Lucky him... he didn't have any problem overheating the car. The problem he ran into is that he had to go through 3 instructors on Sunday. They were all getting car sick ... should I remind him... smooth inputs Here are a few laps from that week-end. Are any of you in my video? |
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Problem was, we had just the right number of instructors so every instructor had 2 students. When one gets sick, well, then it's basically a huge juggling act.
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By the way, he absolutely loved your instruction on Saturday. You definitely left a very good impression with him. He couldn't stop telling me how good of an instructor you are. He called me a few days after getting back in town and told me the event "screwed-up" his driving... he's trying to apex turns around town and getting on the throttle coming out of the corners. I think he's hooked |
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03-27-2013, 11:42 PM | #51 |
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I had two VERY different instructors on Sat and Sun. The Sat instructor called the apex cones "reference cone" and didn't care about hitting every apex, while the Sunday instructor wanted all the apex hit. It really messed me us because I was looking at the apex so much, I wasn't looking up like I was Saturday. Both were good, but were looking for different things and I had to adjust to each one, which is cool with me.
The instructor shortage also put some guys in the A group who didn't want to be there. I have one friend who wasn't happy about that and probably won't be doing anymore CCA events, which sucks, because it's the only time I really see him, Beside, the more students, the more events we can have (if there are enough instructors). . Also, are most of you guys running DSC off or MDM? I've been pretty happy with the Euro MDM. It saved me a couple times when I got on it too much; one time was where adamranger left his mark. .
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03-28-2013, 11:57 PM | #52 | |
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Also glad I didn't have an in-car camera to capture me yelling "nooooooooooooooooooooo" as I went around. Before that happened, I'd never had to get at the yellow flag tent since I started this journey 18 years or so ago.
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03-29-2013, 04:00 PM | #53 |
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That's me in the white E92 that appears at about the 1 minute mark. You eventually pass me at the front straight. I was parked in the pits a few cars down and chated with you quite a bit regarding your KWs as that is the set-up I plan to run on my next car. You were pretty fast out there!
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I ran full DSC off both days for the first time, using the 18x10 square NT01s. It was a little different.
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To me this is not a "black or white" issue. MDM is totally fine for some and totally wrong for others. I sometime hear/read people saying that MDM is slower. From my experience, it has little effect on my lap time but also I will tell you from my experience that it "eats" up brake pads significantly faster when it is on (it's applying individual brake here and there without me really messing up anything). I was going to post a video of 2 sessions back to back with MDM on and off to show how MDM kicks in. I borrowed a data acquisition device (Aim Solo) and decided to take some data on this much debated topics Keep an eye on the Track section, I should have it up soon... |
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03-30-2013, 10:02 AM | #58 |
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Looking forward to your vid. I rarely got into the MDM (that I can tell), but I'm not driving as hard as you
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Wish I could have been there... maybe next time.
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For the peeps who have run this in both directions, which way do you like more and why?
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Clockwise I really enjoy the corkscrew down into the bowl. Then again, it's really fun going the other direction in those turns too. I enjoy uphill turns. I'm not sure I really prefer either direction over the other. They both have their highlights and their throwaway turns. |
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Probably because the corkscrew & the bowl are both downhill.
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