COTA, BABY!!! Woo!

ArizonaBOSS said:

COTA, BABY!!! Woo!

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Man it was so much fun. 10/10 would do a trip every year if we could

Heres a couple that are different.... charity laps at North Wilkesboro Speedway... pretty cool, casual, a change of pace.

I'll add one to the oval videos
Here's some Legends in car, good racing inside and outside passing and getting passed. A couple choose cone restarts. There is some vibration blur but it adds to the "being in the car" effect.

Once i figure out how to download my garmin vids I’ll try to post them. Seems to be more difficult than it should be…

Do ya'll take Spec Miata races run by former Mustang track day bois and current Mustang autocrossers?

Me Iikes , but then I raced Spec Miata for close to 10 years ------- intense, fun and very exact. Missed shifts, braking too early, missing your line and you get passed often. Thanks for posting and when did you start racing in these little buzz bombs Duane.

New guy here- just took my PP2 out to Thunderbolt after a 2 year hiatus from the track. Tbolt has had a repave since I last took my 135i on 200tw and 400whp. They say the new pavement is worth 2 seconds, and that is exactly how much quicker (1:30.56) I was vs my best in the BMW in 7 years. I have plenty more time to find in this car, too, and pleased that I was able to pick things up right where I left off. We did run the new devil's pass config in the morning where I recorded a 1:22.7.

Here's a few laps running 1:33s behind a GT4 (driven by a 80 year old PCA veteran) during session 5 of 6

The stang is more playful than the BMW, less pushy midcorner, and more reactive to the skinny pedal. The 135i is an open diff car with brake torque vectoring, and always fought against your inputs regardless of throttle position. The factory recaros were adequate, and CHTs stayed below 240 at a high of 75f. The rev matching didn't work in hard braking and did fuel starve below 1/3 tank as expected, but not deal breakers. Also, the vband nut on my Corsa active valved muffler tip backed out on the last session and fell out, so I need to replace a melted harness and faux diffuser. Fortunately, a flagger saw and got the tip back to me.

Oh, and I got black flagged for drifting so I'll dial back rear toe.

racer47 said:

I'll add one to the oval videos
Here's some Legends in car, good racing inside and outside passing and getting passed. A couple choose cone restarts. There is some vibration blur but it adds to the "being in the car" effect.

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Looks like the outside is the place to be? Or was it just slwoer traffic holding up the inside?


I got a new camera angle for the Muscrat. I built a mount with some PVC pipe and using a GoPro a SpecMiater guy passed off to me.



Comparing to a co-driver

Turns out I am very bad at donuts/drifting(this is my first attempt). I've owned this car 6 years and have never tried it before last weekend. We were camped out on a skid pad at Inde Motorsports Ranch, I had worn my tires down to the cords so after the track workers gave me the thumbs up I went out and embarrassed myself lol

LOL, looked like fun.

jklapko10 said:

Turns out I am very bad at donuts/drifting(this is my first attempt). I've owned this car 6 years and have never tried it before last weekend. We were camped out on a skid pad at Inde Motorsports Ranch, I had worn my tires down to the cords so after the track workers gave me the thumbs up I went out and embarrassed myself lol

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You need terrible 600 tw all season tires... that's a big part of how the Cars And Cawfee bros do it.

jklapko10 said:

Turns out I am very bad at donuts/drifting(this is my first attempt). I've owned this car 6 years and have never tried it before last weekend. We were camped out on a skid pad at Inde Motorsports Ranch, I had worn my tires down to the cords so after the track workers gave me the thumbs up I went out and embarrassed myself lol

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I think that's good for a first attempt! They say it's better to spinout than to skid out without enough power into the spin. I think all you gotta do is keep your foot on the hammer and countersteer!

We have a drift community in my neck of the woods so I figured I'd give it a try eventually too. Will probably try it in a beater first!

BackInBlack said:

I think that's good for a first attempt! They say it's better to spinout than to skid out without enough power into the spin. I think all you gotta do is keep your foot on the hammer and countersteer!

We have a drift community in my neck of the woods so I figured I'd give it a try eventually too. Will probably try it in a beater first!

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I think I was going too fast too quick and yeah, didn't keep my foot in it. Thought it would be like when we used to slide 2wd trucks in the snow as a teen but I was wrong lol

Not a new PB so I will share in this thread. After a 6 month layoff to take care of OPRC (other people's racecars) I got the 21 back on track with a fresh bullet featuring GSC-Power Division Alpha 2 Road Race cams. This set really brought the power back especially torque with a peak gain of 22 lb/ft and a minimum 10 ft/lb gain from 3700 all the way to 7100 rpm.
Here is the vid of my best lap in both in car and Garmin views. notice gear selection and how the torque saved down shifts at T3 and T5, typically 3rd gear corners.
Best Lap of the weekend at MCA 50th/SAAC 51 event Road Atlanta, Garmin view. Interesting to note is the delta against the PB reference lap set by a certain Pro hotshoe February 2025. Now he of course smoked me, but there are a few areas where I was able to maintain, or even reduce the delta at specific corners. Very instructive on where I need to improve, or basically pull up on the sub belt to wake up my balls. The slip in T11 really killed a promising lap.

Another fun one from Atlanta.

Combined Saturday and Sunday layout laps. New PB's in both directions