Track Time Videos

[Vettel-ish]

3 car monster pass drill @ Mid O. Great weekend!

 

[dragoon]

3 car monster pass drill @ Mid O. Great weekend!

FUN FUN FUN

 

[Vettel-ish]

Full race #3 video NASA Great Lakes Sunday May 26. 21 Car led its first race for a bit but I allowed slow traffic to jam me up while my competitor in the Black 911 used better racecraft to get around and hold me off. Green Camaro racing out of class would not yield, guess he was having too much fun.

MID OHIO

5/26/24 PRO CRSE TOP SPEED 135

80/75/88

59/51/77

125​

58/57/72

54/49/69

56/52/68

75/81

67​

59/68/83

93/72/82

52/52/69

1:39:17​

STEVE TOP SPEED 142

92/82/92

46/48/71

132​

74/64/74

58/51/78

67/57/63

72/86

68​

70/62/73

9876/88

64/53/69

1:35:59​

Been tracking data like this for some time. Really nice lap Steve. It shows I need to push more and carry more speed into the corners. You do a nice job of that.

 

[EF1]

Full race #3 video NASA Great Lakes Sunday May 26. 21 Car led its first race for a bit but I allowed slow traffic to jam me up while my competitor in the Black 911 used better racecraft to get around and hold me off. Green Camaro racing out of class would not yield, guess he was having too much fun.

It looks like the green camaro was friends with the Black 911. He was doing him a big favor holding you up.

 

[steveespo]

It looks like the green camaro was friends with the Black 911. He was doing him a big favor holding you up.

Hope that isn't the case. I think he just needed someone to play with because he had no one in his class near him. Honestly I probably burned the 1 gallon extra of gas trying to get around him that would have kept me at legal weight too. That's racing though.

 

[OH GT350]

Full race #3 video NASA Great Lakes Sunday May 26. 21 Car led its first race for a bit but I allowed slow traffic to jam me up while my competitor in the Black 911 used better racecraft to get around and hold me off. Green Camaro racing out of class would not yield, guess he was having too much fun.

Man, those CMC guys at times…

 

[steveespo]

Got a note from the driver of the Green Camaro in AI. He apologized saying he didn't realize that I was racing with the 911 and he would be more aware of the classes at the next race. It was nice to hear and all is forgiven. The CMC guys are mostly good to run with in Great Lakes, but as you see some just don't like to give way.
Steve

 

[dragoon]

Only time I ever had a garmin catalyst in the car. Instructor wanted to see data as this was my first time at Mid-Ohio. There was a passing drill in the beginning of session. As the regular HPDE3 started, I could not gain any momentum as my “old” track driving habits pointed other drivers by as I felt they were faster than me. I wasn’t going for any timed lap but that data is a metric that can be used for overall performance.

 

[Duane Black]

I am now an international track day guy!

Here is my first session that actually recorded. Sessions fell short for reasons.... but 7 short sessions made for a good day nonetheless.

I went out in my last session not sure I could go faster. But I did! Here is that session, with only traffic making me dip over 1:40, and the low fuel warnings making me think I should just pit and go home

If you just want the fast lap...

And then we went over to Montreal and checked out Gilles Villeneueve.

 

[JDee]

That is a very good lap at Mosport for a V6 auto. Well done! But you really need a V8 for Mosport, you're on the gas there so much. The back straight with a manual GT nets 145 mph when you pop up over the hill and under the bridge, with 3.73s you're out of revs in 5th gear. My '16 GT produced 1.33s there on AR1s. I don't know how you got that auto to survive the heat there. Lotsa cooling? I had to have cooling on the MT82 in that car on that track, can't imagine how the auto stood up to it. What tires were you on?

I raced on the Montreal GP track in 1992-93. The config was slightly different than now, but not much. It really is just 5 chicanes connected by short straights, which tends to produce bumper car racing on Lap 1 and again late in the race as the brakes disappear. By the end of lap 1 both ends of the car were severely shortened, but it survived. Thankfully, I was driving another guy's car! Not really a good drivers track, it just happens to be in the middle of almost 2 million people in a province that the federal government dumps billions of dollars into. We ran immediately before the GP, so the joint was packed, never raced in front of so many people as on that day. Bummer that you couldn't get on the track with the car even just for a slow lap.

Too bad you didn't hit Mont Tremblant when you were in the neighbourhood, it is a much better track than Montreal and it also was a Grand Prix track, you could have added 2 GP tracks to your list in one trip! Not quite as fast as Mosport but damn close and a very interesting track in the Laurentians, a great area to visit.

Another trip to hit Calabogie which is just outside Ottawa, then cross over the river to run Tremblant and then swing east to run Atlantic Motorsports Park in Nova Scotia?

 

[Duane Black]

That is a very good lap at Mosport for a V6 auto. Well done! But you really need a V8 for Mosport, you're on the gas there so much. The back straight with a manual GT nets 145 mph when you pop up over the hill and under the bridge, with 3.73s you're out of revs in 5th gear. My '16 GT produced 1.33s there on AR1s. I don't know how you got that auto to survive the heat there. Lotsa cooling? I had to have cooling on the MT82 in that car on that track, can't imagine how the auto stood up to it. What tires were you on?

I raced on the Montreal GP track in 1992-93. The config was slightly different than now, but not much. It really is just 5 chicanes connected by short straights, which tends to produce bumper car racing on Lap 1 and again late in the race as the brakes disappear. By the end of lap 1 both ends of the car were severely shortened, but it survived. Thankfully, I was driving another guy's car! Not really a good drivers track, it just happens to be in the middle of almost 2 million people in a province that the federal government dumps billions of dollars into. We ran immediately before the GP, so the joint was packed, never raced in front of so many people as on that day. Bummer that you couldn't get on the track with the car even just for a slow lap.

Too bad you didn't hit Mont Tremblant when you were in the neighbourhood, it is a much better track than Montreal and it also was a Grand Prix track, you could have added 2 GP tracks to your list in one trip! Not quite as fast as Mosport but damn close and a very interesting track in the Laurentians, a great area to visit.

Another trip to hit Calabogie which is just outside Ottawa, then cross over the river to run Tremblant and then swing east to run Atlantic Motorsports Park in Nova Scotia?

The video is literally me driving Gilles Villeneuve at 20 miles per hour.

Mont Tremblant isnt on my radar, but I did check and see it was having a track day the same Monday I was at Mosport. I drove by the sign of for Calaboga on the TransCanada driving to Montreal.

We took a slow lap of Montreal, then rented bikes to check it out slower. Its so much tighter than I realized. I also realized it would probably be impossible to have a standard HPDE there.....

The 6R80 came with an independent oil cooler in front of the radiator. Its got the same hood as a GT and a Boss 302 R grill to allow air cooling... its hotter in Georgia and North Carolina. VIR and Road Atlanta, hell even Roebling Road have similar average speeds and it just takes it. Slower tracks with a lot of brake zones amd short straights are the worst. Sebring is probably the toughest

 

[theamsoilguy]

Looking forward to next season already. I can add about 40hp to the car. Still dialing in the suspension and getting seat time. I can probably grab first at this track with the car. The other track I go to I will be closer to the front guys with 40hp. Motor was down a bit on power last race, I am also getting fuel cut even with a full tank in some left handers, hopefully nothing wrong that cooling the car down and fresh plugs wont fix. Corded a tire, inside front, tire temps didnt show too much camber so I have to hit the alignment rack. That was only 5 race days on that tire and the drivers tire looks great for wear. But it is a heavy car

 

[Duane Black]

Yall like autocross??

 

[racer47]

......and now for something completely different.

How about some short track racing? We are the green 47. The camera car is the current points leader (we're 4th). But this night he followed us for most of the race and got by late when we got too loose (see 4:45). The slide job on the black 11 was not appreciated by him but sorry, it was time to go @ 2:10. We ended up 4th that night out of 18 starting the feature and 25 that qualified.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

Damn, that looks like a ton of fun and though only 8 minutes I think I got tired just watching , ha. Lots of excitement and joking around , but what a hoot!

 

[racer47]

Its great racing. You only get about 2 seconds in the middle of each straight where you are not at the traction limit. The cars are well designed, bias ply tires, non adj shocks, sealed motors, with most of the setup variables of a late model. I was skeptical going in but everyone in Legends convinced me to try it. Most of the younger Nascar guys came thru Legends.

It looks less chaotic from the stands. Here is this past Saturdays feature from the track videographer. Spoiler, the mean green machine finishes 3rd after some restart shenanigans by others.

ok, I'm done. Back to your regularly scheduled hpde event.

 

[12coBoss]

Got around to uploading some videos from this last weekend. I didn't setup the Garmin right so the short course the timing was scoring me coming off turn 2, but I put my times in the comments. Then it didn't like recording the final and quickest run on the barrel race so it is cut off half way through. The full lap is on the Garmin and I can view it, but it will not export so not sure if I will be able to get the full run downloaded.

I ran this event on the used slicks from the Mustang Challenge which are Michelin 295/30/19s. I found these tires are similiar to the Eagle F1 Supercar 3R's. The quickest time was my second lap out then they seemed to go away, and that was the way they were every session, 2nd hard lap was quickest then they fall off by a couple tenths. I need to weigh them compared to the Pirelli 315/705/19, I noticed when I was putting them away on my tire rack that they felt heavier than the Pirelli's. The compound is defiantly not as sticky as the Pirelli either seeing how much debris they picked up.

I do like the shorter tire on the GT350 compared to the Pirelli, and I feel it fits my driving style better. I feel the Pirelli is to tall of a tire and I do not have the power off the corners, and the car is not as free so I do not rotate the car as well. Anyway's as a few of you asked to share some videos so the link is below.

2024 Mustang Roundup Motorsports Park Hastings

2024 Mustang Roundup Motorsports Park Hastings

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[Bill Pemberton]

Positive proof that with just a very few mods, a GT350 is a mega quick track Steed!

 

[steveespo]

Video from my friend Rob in his 2011 GT500 chasing the 21 at VIR last Friday. Good fun with old NY friend and some new NY friends.

 

[cobrarob]

Very good time Steve. Great being on track with you.