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www.automatic.com - it's one of the plug in OBDII readers that play nicely with Harry's lap timer. Well, most of the time.
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Updated thread with results of the first day of Thunderhill. Had a very productive day - set my fastest lap in the morning. It got progressively hotter as the day went on, and while I managed to stay relatively consistent when I did not get stuck in traffic, was not able to beat this time. Lots of people in B group - 38 on the track, so I ended up running into people in the back with slower cars. Still a lot of fun, and my confidence is back now that I have matched traction.
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Got moved up into the advanced group (C) and then promptly managed to spin my car out on the cyclone at turn 5E on my first session - on the 3rd lap or so. I will post a video of it later - was a scary event because I slid down the hill sideways and then back on to the track in the opposite direction. Could have rolled the car if I had more momentum. Humble pie was eaten - and I had a nice "discussion" with the group leader when I got back into the pits. Obviously my tires must have been under inflated. /s in this case, it was too much speed coming up the cyclone and either not braking soon enough or not turning in enough, missed the berm by two feet and it took the rest of the car with it. I had been pushing the car hard through turns and letting the Potenza tires hero me through some turns that a lesser tire would not have allowed me to do. Since I run with Euro MDM it lets you slide quite a bit so that was frowned upon. Honestly wasn't trying to drift, if I hit a limit I would back off from it the next time around. Combination of that plus the spin out must have labeled me as a troublemaker. FWIW HOD is quite conservative and won't hesitate to throw you out if they think you are being unsafe. Not wanting to push the limits again, I took it easy the rest of the day. Was lucky and I don't appear to have suffered any damage in the incident. My brakes though appear to be just about done due to wear - about 3 mm of pad left. Squealing a lot louder than it used to, and I see a bunch of hairline cracks on the rotors now. No issues on the track, except possibly fade? Felt like I had to get on the brakes sooner in some spots towards the end of the day. On the way home, couple of times when I would brake at say medium pedal at low speeds, I'd hear a horrible sound that honestly sounded like I was driving on a rumble strip - except coming from my front tires. I got out and inspected the car, but didn't see anything wrong. After letting the car sit for a couple hours, I didn't experience it again. |
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I was in an interlagos blue E92. There were a couple there, but mine was the one with Apex Arc 8s.
Cool that you got bumped up to C group. I have a couple of friends that ran in C that you might have run across. One in a blue S2000 and one in a sahkir orange M4. |
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Your friend in the S2000 was very fast - not a stock car? I think we passed each other a couple times. Love the orange M4 - but didn't see him on the track.
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They didn't - they were frantically waving a yellow flag and I paused for a second to see if I should wait for a signal, and I didn't see one, and I also knew I didn't want to get t-boned so I got my car going as fast as I could.
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I wonder if it would have been safer to backup off the track from where your car ended up rather than driving up the back of T5 into the path of traffic? Just trying to figure out what I would have done in the same situation. I was also out there on Saturday. There seemed to be a ton of M3s and GT3s ...
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Finished up first session here today at Buttonwillow. Traffic in Black intermediate is pretty heavy with lots of people getting overly excited and running off the track. Haven't had a real chance to open up with the brakes yet but it feels really good so far.
Had an issue with my tire balance last night, it was vibrating the crap out of my steering wheel so I switched the front driver side wheel to the passenger side rear so I didn't have to feel it through the steering the entire way down. Rebalanced my tires this morning at the tire shop. The wobbly one I moved was WAY off balance. I'll remember to get the tires rebalanced every time I have an off track incident. |
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Also the clamps on my Macht Schnell intake didn't hold the elbow in all the way so I had to fix that this morning.
I also had the dumb add more oil issue on the way down even though I just got the damn thing changed. Added a half quart and still got the warning message the entire way down no matter how many times I reset it. I hate this thing. Told me I had more than half a quart this morning though when I started it up cold. Ahhhh! It's a wonder with all the issues I've had I didn't miss the first session. |
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