My E90 M3 Dedicated Track build (with pix!)

[fsmtnbiker]

What's the swaybar setup f/r on your car?

Sounds like a challenging weekend. My boss and a couple coworkers were out there Friday. I agree that the track seems especially slow right now, hopefully the rain will clean it up a little and bring back some pace.

[dogbone]

Originally Posted by fsmtnbiker

What's the swaybar setup f/r on your car?

Sounds like a challenging weekend. My boss and a couple coworkers were out there Friday. I agree that the track seems especially slow right now, hopefully the rain will clean it up a little and bring back some pace.

RD Sport sway bar (the green bar). I believe it's set on the middle hole of the three holes. I would have to look to confirm that.

Stock rear sway bar.

Ah, too bad they didn't come over and say hi. What were they driving?

[derbo]

Originally Posted by dogbone

As I keep turning the weekend over in my mind, I keep remembering other small details. I had totally forgotten about this little tidbit until now:

On Friday, after another frustrating session on track, I was cooling the car down by driving it around the paddock slowly. I was in a more remote section of the paddock and there was a guy with an F80 M3 pitted there. As I'm going by slowly, he waves me down. I stop. He asked, "Are you 7SpeedM?" (which is my YouTube channel). I said yes. He was very nice. He said he had watched my videos a lot to learn tracks and stuff. And then he said something funny. (English is not his native language.) He was remarking something about how he thought it was funny or interesting how my pinky fingers lift off the steering wheel sometimes when I'm in corners. And he sort of imitated it with his hand. hahahahahaha And he's right! I do that sometimes when cornering! I laughed pretty hard. I guess people are watching all kinds of stuff in my videos......

Anyway, it was good to have a laugh during a frustrating day---even if it was at my pinky's expense.

Nothing wrong with that.

[dogbone]

Originally Posted by derbo

Nothing wrong with that.

I guess I’m in good company!!

[roastbeef]

I always thought it was just your loose hands.

[dogbone]

For anyone who’s curious to check it out this weekend, GTA will be streaming the time attack live on YouTube. You can see it here:

http://www.globaltimeattack.com/live

And the live timing results will be on RaceHero.

hehe there’s a lot of horsepower here this weekend.....and it ain’t under my hood!!

Today is a practice day. Hoping to work on my braking zones and clean that up.

Weather for the whole weekend looks incredible. Sunny and high 64° everyday.

[ThunderMoose]

Originally Posted by dogbone

For anyone who’s curious to check it out this weekend, GTA will be streaming the time attack live on YouTube. You can see it here:

http://www.globaltimeattack.com/live

And the live timing results will be on RaceHero.

hehe there’s a lot of horsepower here this weekend.....and it ain’t under my hood!!

Today is a practice day. Hoping to work on my braking zones and clean that up.

Weather for the whole weekend looks incredible. Sunny and high 64° everyday.

As always, I'll be rooting for you!

[OG Shark]

Good luck!!!

What setup are you going with for the event?

[SYT_Shadow]

Good luck!

[tsk94]

Best of luck!

[derbo]

Have fun man! I hope to catch some videos.

[dogbone]

Originally Posted by OG Shark

Good luck!!!

What setup are you going with for the event?

Got some Yoko Soft compounds. 280/650/18front, 300/650/18rear.

I’m going with the stiffer spring setup. I’m not convinced I’m faster with it. But I’m giving it my best shot tomorrow.

Practiced today on scrubs. It’s frustrating driving all day on mediocre tires when you’re staring at several sets of new tires.....the weather was great. I wanted to put good tires on soooo badly.

Anyway, the shifting was once again perfect today. Not a single mis-shift all day. Incredible.

[dogbone]

And thanks for the well-wishes everyone!

[rhyary]

Be fast!

[DRLane]

Hit em straight Gabe!

Oh sorry, meant drive at the limit! 👍🏼

[dogbone]

According to the schedule posted this AM, I am in Driving Group 1. I will be running today at PST 8:30AM, 10:10AM, 1:05PM and 3:15PM. (As long as I stay in Group 1. They reset the groups after lunch so it could change for the last two sessions if I move from Group 1.)

The sessions are long—-25 minutes (!). I am considering going out on the warm up lap and then pitting immediately and waiting 15 minutes for the track traffic to die down. And then go out. Honestly, I don’t understand why the sessions are so long. They should make more groups and run shorter sessions to reduce traffic......anyway.....we’ll see. I’ll be making a last second decision on that.

[fsmtnbiker]

Good luck today! Curious to see what kind of time you can find out there.

[rhyary]

I am on the live stream, missed your first session. Looking forward to your 10:10 session

[MisterClutch888]

Represent! Good luck~

[kyippee]

Have fun out there! A friend is running there too, S2000 #420.

Lots of fast lap times in that first session you were in

[derbo]

Day 1 video

[rhyary]

Watching Gabe,
It looks to me his car does not have enough damping and rebound is too fast.

When he goes thru the bus stop, and the bumps his car is moving too much up and down.

I wonder what Gabe will say