Me and my friends decided to end the week with a nice relaxing member track day at autobahn country club full course. At 11PM the night before, my friends convinced me to take my S2000 (originally, my intent was to track my ITR exclusively since I had never tracked it yet...but I ended up taking both cars). I met up at my friend's shop to prep the car at 6AM. At that point, I was at about 6-7 hours of sleep for the whole weekend. Ugh.

So...I did the brakes...and looked at the brake fluid. Garbage. I hadn't changed it since like...a few track days and about a year of street driving it was garbage. But...I thought F it. I had a fresh set of carbotechs on there. How bad could it be?

The vid shows that I lose my brakes lol. I wasn't in danger of crashing...but the pedal continuously going to the floor doesn't inspire confidence. I also never got a good run in with the S2000. So my lap times were un-impressive. With all the traffic interruptions and stuff..I ran a 2:58-2:59ish lap (not shown in vid). The brake issue also meant that I didn't wanna take the S2000 out on any more sessions. So...I shoulda changed that stupid fluid.

Here's the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbwGIKMhV0s

***I put 3:02 lap in the wrong part of the video. The lap prior to that one was a 3:02 lap, IIRC. Not that 3:02 is anything to shout about, btw.

Got lots of clean laps in my ITR, though.

 

Nice vid! Bet it was fun though! Is that a green mohawk on your helmet? lol

 

still rocking the green hawk! I wanna take mine to autobahn.

 

lol at the death grip the passenger has on the oh **** grip

 

nice. looked like a day full of fun.

 

oh i wanna go ! what tires are you on ?

 

what organization did you go with? looking for organization that doesn't require hardtops

 

It was a member day. Membership requirements at Autobahn: $35,000 initiation. Then $4000 per year. After that, there are no rules lol.

None of the HPDEs that I've been to require a hard top. There was one that would require a roll bar, harnesses, and arm tethers (wtf?!). It depends on the track also. BMW usually use the broom stick rule for convertibles. But since autobahn doesn't have that requirement, there is no BMW club broomstick convertible rule at autobahn.

I've only been turned away ONCE for not having an aftermarket roll bar. Usually, the S2000 stock roll hoops are good enough.

 

So buy a set of good brake pads, a helmet, and some good tires and go. Doesn't take anything else.

I'm on Dunlop Z1 starspecs (street tires). 225/45/17F and 265/40/17R

 

I'm sure we'll go again a few times...I'll holla. I'm going to Gingerman for WMHM in 3 weeks.

 

nice vid!

 

Thanks.