Chuckwalla Valley Raceway February 18th and 19th

[cloud9]

Let's see if this works...tagging the limiter on both the front and back straights

http://youtu.be/NAHKP7lqDBg

Great lap Grant! Your line was excellent.

 

[jnathan68]

Nice shots there! Got any more??

I have a few. Only a few cars running when I was taking pics. I will edit a few more and post later.

 

[cloud9]

Gary
Are those Konig wheels hub centric or do the use the studs to center and carry the vehicle gravity loads? If they do, more evidence on why hub centric wheels are the way to go for racing. If not then Ford studs are too cheap for track work.
Steve

I'm not sure Steve. I looked but couldn't see any spacers or rings but like Grant said there were center caps on them too. A comment was made that the lugs were breaking on the cars that came back from a certain suspension shop which indicated it was probably due to being overtorqued with a gun. I was told they are not an Enkei wheel, just distributed by them.

I ran stock studs on my GT500 with Enkei wheels and r-comp tires for three years and never broke a wheel stud. I had one break on the Boss last year when torquing the wheel in the paddock. I have to assume they switched suppliers and the new studs aren't up to track duty.

 

[jnathan68]

Video of a few laps from an early afternoon session on Monday...last lap in series is cleanest.

[youtube]http://youtu.be/yV9DJEz0Uiw[/youtube]

 

[VoodooBoss]

That was me in the academy car you passed in the beginning. You were smooth and fast out there.

Even though I hadn't met most of you I feel like I know you through the forum. This was like a private track day with your friends and I had a blast! 8)

 

[moto]

Here is a nice clean lap following Drew around. I am slowly working on others...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR5hOOcP2Ek[/youtube]

 

[Fat Boss]

OK cliff's notes--great weekend, great people, I will post more later after work.

Finally got around to figuring out how to view my laps in Harry's Lap Timer. My last session on Tuesday, I cranked out a couple 2:06 flats and a couple high 2:05s. Here is the video from my fastest lap! I will post up a bunch more videos featuring some great runs with (Moto)Viper, CaptDistraction, and our buddy w/ the FR500S "sometime later" this week.

This video only took about 3 mins to compile with Harry's Lap Timer app on my iPhone, awesome time saver. Normally I'm editing video for an hour in Sony Vegas and overlaying data from Trackmaster just to get a few laps output!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDGWJRiFPQE&hd=1

Edit: I dunno why the embed isn't working but the link should work.

I'll buy a round of beers if you post up how to use Harry's...

Way to represent the RR out there! I watched everyone's vids- looks like you all had some fun. Makes me wanna go next year.

 

[Grant 302]

Video of a few laps from an early afternoon session on Monday...last lap in series is cleanest.

Nice..Looks like a 2:06 or so. Thanks for including my blue rolling chicane in that clip!

Ron's video shows me what it's like to stay in 4th on the front and back straights and not hit the limiter. Jason, Ron and I were all running the same tires...

Great lap Grant! Your line was excellent.

Thanks...I thought it was pretty clean. I headed in on the next lap because it felt good. Kept thinking that until I read this:

I rode with Mickey late Tuesday and he used a low line through the bowl. The pavement down low has unbelievable grip. Coming out of 12 stay right and enter the bowl low. Light on the brakes and then flat foot it early. Your car will stick and your exit speed will increase.

I had this nagging feeling that lower would be better there...but I studied and memorized that map. Must be the line for higher HP cars. I was thinking with that big a radius *and* the banking that the inside line had to be faster. Looks like I was afraid of 'launching' for no good reason.

 

[VoodooBoss]

I had this nagging feeling that lower would be better there...but I studied and memorized that map. Must be the line for higher HP cars. I was thinking with that big a radius *and* the banking that the inside line had to be faster. Looks like I was afraid of 'launching' for no good reason.

I also kept wanting to go low too but we were told that wasn't the line. One of Mickey's points about staying low is that if you do lose it you have a lot more track to save you. He said going off backwards in the bowl is not good.

 

[SoCalBoss]

Sounds like everybody had a great time. How much track time did you guys get? Hopefully, I can join y'all next time...

 

[ls110]

Guys - Thanks for posting all the pics and vids! A year is too long to get back there and try some of the different lines discussed. Definitely want to do this again next year. Great track, great group of guys, and a much needed break from the Minnesota cold. We need to get Mickey to show up early at that track next year and we will probably get better maintenance support.

 

[Keavdog]

Sounds like everybody had a great time. How much track time did you guys get? Hopefully, I can join y'all next time...

It was an open track all day - so you ran as much as you wanted from 9 - 5. It was fantastic.

 

[captdistraction]

I had an absolute blast. I was very timid about coming out with the car being in a questionable state, but it kept asking for more.

I hadn't gone through anything yet to try to find a fast lap, nor do I want to know as you guys are all very, very fast and smooth drivers. Here's a video from Tuesday:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL66WL3BW3c[/youtube]

It was a great time with a great group of drivers, I'll just be better prepared next time for the cold. I'll try to have some edited video and pictures up soon. The car ran fantastic on the way home, I feel like it had to have gotten about 2mpg better mileage and felt much smoother on the way back (probably placebo, but I did change the tune, oil viscosity, and a few other things).

 

[cloud9]

I echo Chris and Drew's sentiments on the quality of driving. Everyone was moving so quickly that it felt like you were by yourself out there. The only rolling chicane I saw had an import badge

 

[ArizonaBOSS]

Here are those two crazy Road America crashes we were talking about by the hot pit wall, if you guys haven't seen them already:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9cuY8IRuww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtDrmcqWl0s

 

[VoodooBoss]

I echo Chris and Drew's sentiments on the quality of driving. Everyone was moving so quickly that it felt like you were by yourself out there. The only rolling chicane I saw had an import badge

LOL. Hey give the super senior credit for getting the GTR to the track! That guy had to be at least 70.

 

[cloud9]

Here are those two crazy Road America crashes we were talking about by the hot pit wall, if you guys haven't seen them already:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9cuY8IRuww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtDrmcqWl0s

You had to remind me as I get ready to go back in June . You were right that was turn 1where he jumped the fence. The one in Canada Corner wouldn't have been as bad if he didn't have enough brake to start the turn. Going straight off there's a massive sand trap to at least slow you down.

 

[cloud9]

Here are those two crazy Road America crashes we were talking about by the hot pit wall, if you guys haven't seen them already:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9cuY8IRuww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtDrmcqWl0s

Oh and thanks for picking a wreck from the corner in my sig pic

 

[steveespo]

I would seriously like to join this group next winter and drive a great California track or 2. Looked like a great turnout and a lot of fun.
Steve

 

[Bill Pemberton]

Any thought of getting 15-20 of us together and going to Miller. Five years ago 18 of us went there and had a riot, and of course we used the school cars. Got to run the East and West course, and finally the full course.

Would be a riot to go with an entire group of Boss fanatics. We ran there three days, though a two day event would be great too.