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

 

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?

 

Beautiful track and footage! Nice driving.

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

 

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

 

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!

 

Cant wait to make it out there!

 

looks like a very fun track.

 

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

 

Looks awesome

 

Wow that track looks really fun.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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