hahaha...made you click just for the videos....hahaha....well those will be up tomorrow some time....anyways....

Thank you corner workers
Thank you NASA SE

positives

i didn't wreck
i didn't hit anyone
i started dead last on sunday with a split start and still finished 14 overall (there were 14 cars.....hehehe....jk)
GRID ON SUNDAY WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FLAGGERS AWESOME
justin getting a new "STRAIGHT UNMOLESTED CHASIS"
finally getting t12 and t1
hitting 150 (indicated) plus on the back straight, rpm's indicated 146 via a gear calculator
braking at 200 when doing 150
getting to within .3 seconds on OLD OLD OLD hoosiers and track being "SLOW"
drafting world speed challenge vettes for about 50 feet on the back straight
having same corner speed as the fast guys thanks alex and alan
cones getting thrown up at you at 115 mphs in the esses
having the fiance at the track with me
bump drafting both hunter and alex
not working on the CAR
scot showing me a new line in 12
learning from the faster guys yet again


negatives
justin and turn 1 wall getting intitmate
5 hours of the most STRESSFUL PERIOD in my life
waiting on grid in 20000000000000 degree heat
loosing 8lbs this weekend due to heat...(i was still pissing clear every 45 minutes) and i was still loosing weight
16 heat cycle hoosiers....
learning a soon to be family member isn't doing so well


again....video's will be up sometime this week.....

 

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No time like the present!

Sounds like all in all a fun weekend!

 

hum... 150 huh? yeap, going to RA next year.. we just need to do the GLEN as well

 

I'll be there again next year, this time with my head removed from my *** while driving.

 

scott showing me a new line in 12

Hope that helped. Did you get it flat on Sunday?
I was able to get it later in the day once we got that awful push out of Ewan's car.

Scott, who busted his track hybrid cherry and did get to remember how much fun it can be to carry a passenger through turn 12.

 

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Hope that helped. Did you get it flat on Sunday?
I was able to get it later in the day once we got that awful push out of Ewan's car.

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well....no....not flat.....and really there was no reason this weekend to go flat through 12....cept to catch cindy.....

 

Guess this is as good a place as any...some of you local Atlanta metro guys may have visited or heard of Balanced Performance and saw the owner of the business, Ron Delvalle, flogging his red GT2 280Z during the NASA weekend. He had a great weekend at Road Atlanta, but while he was there he got a phone call that his home was struck by lightning from the nasty storm that passed through the area. The subsequent fire quickly destroyed the home of he and his wife along with most of their personal belongings and irreplaceable personal effects. Please keep them in your thoughts.

As an aside, I don't care who you are, that's funny.

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New tires = Flat.
That more open line is actually kind of painless once you get used to waiting so late to turn in.

 

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so sorry to hear!!!!

 

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Shhh. Don't tell everybody!

Yeah 12 is sweet. My pig hooks up pretty good at turn in, then those little wavy bumps at the apex send me drifting to the track out with the center mark on my steering wheel at about straight up. Love it!

 

In my car I kind of take the shortest distance as my speed is lower and I can afford to pinch things a little.
In Ewans car I had to take that w i d e line dropping the left wheels over the white line and turning in really late. Once we got the push out of tthe Hybrid, it turned in nicely and was an easy flatfoot on old 205 Toyos.
I love grabbing 5th at track out. Reminds me of my old &lt;sniff&gt; Integra.

I think Chad kind of liked trying that line as well .

Scott, who reminds you that this pays dividends all the way down the front straight.

 

I short-shift to 5th at turn in and mat it (4.9 FD). Since it is down hill, it carries 5th pretty good. I meant to try carrying 4th all the way through 12 but I didn't. I figured I'd be bustin' the rev limiter at or before track out?

T #1 to T #7 is just wicked fast. I drop to 4th entering T #1 and carry it all the way to braking for T #7. Exit of T#5 is a little lazy, but with good entry speed and use of all the exit curbs, it pulls it ok. A fresh motor for next year should help the dead spots a little; It's down 12 - 15 hp from where it should be.

My hat's off to Parker. His first trip to Rd Atl and he didn't hit anything and cut a bunch of really good laps. If he hadn't got buried by the V8 back markers, he might have rolled a rat.

 

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Don't bother. In my GSR I was on the limiter at track out with a 4.7 FD. If I had a really good run or a draft i'd sometimes hit the limiter before completely getting off the corner, which isn't at all pleasant.
You have more revs available, but I'd think the 4.9 would nullify that.

With Ewans stock Type R drivetrain (4.4?) I was at 8K in 4th just past the flag stand. I don't imagine there'd be enough 4th gear there with a 4.9.

 

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bwahahaha

that's my bitch... don't forget!