Oregon Raceway Park
 

I went down to Oregon Raceway Park on Friday for a track day. It is the best track in the Northwest region right now. It's like driving a roller coaster ride.

Here is a video of my last session.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FCr7wdrCz8

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Lookin good. What's the setup on your crx? I'd love to pay that track a visit one day. How long was the drive down?

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Beautiful track and footage! Nice driving. :)

What did you use to get the data on the video?

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no longer a crx.......
k24 eg

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hmmmmm.....can i borrow your car in 3 years? we will be having a family reunion in oregon in 2014....might have to come out and get on track!

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Cant wait to make it out there!

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looks like a very fun track.

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Wow, it looks like it's an hour or so past the Tri-Cities. Possibly closer to me than Pacific Raceways, and with out going over Snoqualmie Pass

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Looks awesome

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Wow that track looks really fun.

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Several of the owners of the track are Conference racers so they really wanted to lay down something challenging. They all had a dream of owning their own race track and none of them are uber wealthy so while ORP doesn't have all the amenities of a PIR or Laguna Seca, it definitely offers some of the most challenging corners around.

Just some stats:
1: A left to right 14 degree banked "half pipe"
2: 16 corners
3: Over 400 feet of elevation change.
4: Tons of safe runoff room

Here's what a race looks like from earlier this season:

http://www.vimeo.com/24504375

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rice_classic: Got any advice that you can maybe see from the vid? I'm still using what you taught me earlier this year at PR when you were my instructor.

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Track looks awsome. Im in Vancouver, Wa. and might have to pay this track a visit. PGP is also a nice little technical track.

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You're lines at ORP look great, keep doing what you're doing.

A couple things

1: Use a bit more curb in T2
2: try a little LFB between T3 and T4
3: You're good at T7 but pay attention to T8. You're giving up 1 second there. Go a little wider up the hill. Watch your vid and my vid side by side and you'll see the difference. I didn't learn how important that tiny difference is until I watched the video of 2 competitors who both set faster times. I adapted to the change and dropped a second doing a 1:58.xx during the race.

I gotta say though, I'd be comfortable racing next to you and hope that happens some day.

BTW: I raced at Mission Raceways for the first time this year and boy, that's a track that is hard on cars and brutal, absolutely hateful to brakes.

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ya, some said this is the hardest track on brake on the west coast