Has anyone ever listened to music during a lapping event? I was just thinking, I have never heard anyone blast by with music coming out of their window, but I have also never heard it mentioned as a no-no or a black-flaggable offense.

 

LOL That is a interesting question! I imagine it's a no brainer that's why it's not mentioned.

Of course, if you COULD listen to music, what would you listen too on the track?

 

I listen to my engine - that's sweet music

 

I happen to have very good sources that tell me a certain pair of SE-R drivers listen to music during lapping sessions... The mixes include selections from the Cardigans, Garbage, Wagner, Van Halen, and a few others...

I, of course, am too concerned with my flying elephant career to be concerned with such foolishness.

Ken

 

There was at least one entrant in the IMSA Renault Cup with us who used to listen to tunes while he was on the track...

kirk

 

What an eclectic taste!

sounds like my kind of music fan.

Will
-who listened to Megadeath in his Volvo at Summit Pt. in 1991.....

 

I don't have a stereo in my car but I have heard the sounds of Geddy Lee and Neil Peart coming from r2x's Miata.

 

I have turned the radio on for a few cool down laps

Bryan

 

Guilty as charged... Rush - Exit Stage Left

Downside of music... you don't hear the "noises" made by your car as well; tires, engine, etc. If you listen to music (which I don't suggest as a student), just be aware you are losing some valuable inputs.

 

I would never do such a thing during a fast lap/fast group because it's too distracting, but just out for touring laps in Beginner is another story. All of the following (or a mixed disc of them all) are quite nice to drive to:

Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
Phish- A Picture of Nectar
Cake- Fashion Nugget
Primus- Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Soul Coughing- Ruby Vroom

Oh yeah, if I was going to listen to something in a fast group (which I wouldn't), it would probably be some kinda crazy, high-bpm jungle techno like Dieselboy. Or more upbeat Jamaican dancehall ragamuffin, of which there are several examples. Or, possibly, in the right mindset, Rage Against the Machine.

Jon

 

Hey Jon, do you remember that guy at an autox maybe last season in the blingin beige Civic hatch who bassed out during his entire like 2 minute autox run? That was great

Indeed... Wagner and Van Halen? I'm thinking the tracks changing between "Ride of the Valkyries" and "Girl you really got me now"

I find music to be distracting, but I think that's because I tend to try and sing or drum along with whatever is coming out of the speakers. I'm just one of those musical types of people. If I WAS listening to something... it'd be one of the following:

Bush- Machinehead
Powerman 5000- Bombshell
Master of Puppets off Metallica's S&M album. (In case anyone freaks out, that is the album they played with the San Francisco Symphony.)

~Chris, who taught himself enough piano to be able to play the kickass piano opening to Van Halen's "Right Now"

PS- forgot about Rage... hmm... Guerrilla Radio I could deal with.


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I did it during a few autocross runs last year. Gives you that great 'Iron Eagle' effect. Wouldn't do it regularly though, especially not at a track event.

 

There is a local guy here, who has a race prepped 325 BMW, widebody, 400+hp M3 motor, etc, a few events last year he had the radio on full blast and STILL got FTD!

 

I find it helps me focus. I don't find it distracting at all, but for people who do find it distracting, definitely don't listen while driving.

 

No stereo in my car. Even if there was, I couldn't hear it over the engine.

 

Linkin Park is good driving music...

 

My intake noise would drown the music out...

Will
-who likes to shift at 8,599 rpm

 

used to do it all the time. I have a video of summit point; Tears for Fears in the background thanks to a mike sitting next to the speakers! Stopped doing it when I missed a bearing going bad in the motor. May start again when new motor is broken in. Not recommended to new students!!!

 

I would have to agree, Some people are distracted and relax when they listen to Music, I find that I fpocus in on what I am doing when I listen to it.

PS I would listen to
Metallica - Creeping Death
Sponge - Plowed
Pennywise - F Authority
R.A.T.M - Vietnow
Rob Zombie - Dragula
and a Cool down lap with
Van Halen - Panama

 

That would be me. Although I don't have an Wagner on my mix. Some Rush, Garbage, Rob Zombie, Halen, ZZ Top, Cardigans, yada yada yada....

With the "muffler" (wink wink) I now have, it is a bit difficult to hear music anymore.

 

The other SE-R would be me... And I'm the one with Wagner and Van Halen... my current mix also includes: BNL, Metallica, Richard Strauss, Joydrop, John Williams (the composer not the jazz musician), Engima, Enya, and Shostacovich...

And I am the same as Di and TypeRmsm, music helps me focus. It occupies the part of my mind not involved in driving that would normally wander and in and of itself become distracting.

I don't do it all the time, only when I feel I need the extra motivation to concentrate. And it's usually at such a volume that I can still hear the engine and tires. (Although more and more, my knowledge of tires is felt rather than heard...)

Andy

 

didnt you guys ever watch nsx files haha.. hole, hole, hole.. doug Hibiyashi had a sick obsession with courtney love..

need something sick and fast.. "radar love"

your more apt to barely here the Misfits over my loud asz no muffler having car.

 

I think it would be kind of distracting. If I did listen to some while racing, I would have some-

Tool- Ticks and leaches
Incubus- various songs
and H20

 

I think I would be distracted too, but if I did it would be mostly old and new punk like Minor Threat, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Fugazi, and Dag Nasty for aggression. Or alternately, some good abstract instrumental hip hop or trip hop if I needed to concentrate on being extra smooth that day, like DJ Krush, Dj Vadim or Portishead.

Ken -- whose experience only includes 2 autocross seasons and 3 laps at Waterford Hills raceway in MI with the track setup for autocross (slalom at end of straights, one lap at a time, no cage, lots of anxiety )

 

word!