This past Fri and Sat (27-28) the Music City Mustang Club hosted their spring track day at Nashville Superspeedway. They do a spring and fall event and any profits they make are donated to local charities. The get some area track rats to help run the event and experienced drivers can volunteer to corner work. You corner work some sessions and get to run a few at no cost. It's a good deal, helps them make some money for charity, get some cheap track time.

End of the day, members of the club go out to corner stations and they have a 'workers' session. This is a 30 minute throwdown as most of us working corners know each other well and almost all of us are DE3/4/Instructor types. I got some vid from the Friday afternoon session, but a lot of folks left early. I didn't bring my camera Saturday, which sucks because a group of 5 of us went out together and really had a great go of it. I'm hoping one of the other guys had video running.

Here's the vid of the Friday session of me mostly running by myself. My star-specs are shot. Brutal understeer on this track. I drove it pretty hard and used it as prep time for driving a loose car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg0GdlfA2P8

New tires are coming before going back to RA with NASA in June.

For the Sat workers session Brian in his S2K went out in front as the rabbit. He'll be running TTC at RA in June (his first TT event). Here's a vid he made Friday of a couple of laps. He's hard to chase down on a tight track like NSS.

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

 

How'd the new trans feel?

Decided on if you are going to semi r-comps?

 

Trans worked great, second outing on it. The Carbonetic Twin is the bomb.

Decisions, decisions. Many possible routes:

More Star-Specs, long lasting, communicate well at their limits, good performance. But I am consisitently able to push their limits now without much effort.

RS3's, lots of good stuff showing up on these, possibly slightly better grip than star-specs, cheaper, longevity and wear are questions.

NT01's, an obvious step up, very little more cost over StarSpecs, longevity?

R888's, probably not, higher cost than the NT01's but by all accounts no better.

Am I the only one who analyses this kind of thing to death? I hate making bad decisions and spending money poorly. Longevity matters because I am still very much someone who needs lots of seat time, so high dollar tires that don't last are not for me at this point. But I also would like to step up from the performance range of the star-specs.

 

NT01s got 8-10ish events on them before heat cycling out. I had tread left in them, but hardened near their end.

RS3s are still ESP tires (same classing as Z1*). I'd say thats more of a lateral move.

 

That's where the Star-Specs are at. Tread left, but they are blue and have lost noticable grip.