It's a Camaro, therefore, not an Evo. Sorry. Either way, this is the end of the first session at our COTA test with the Stevenson Motorsport Camaro GS.R. Car literally rolled off the trailer like this. We went a few seconds faster by the end of the day and made the car use the track a bit more efficiently. Regardless, the engineering and tech teams at Stevenson do a phenomenal job making a car that is within range of a win so early in a weekend.

This track is amazing. It's just busy enough to keep you interested without be obnoxious. The surface is pretty green still, but by the race in March I'm sure it'll have some seasoning.

Sorry about the poor quality. Edited quickly to post before the other drivers did. FIRST!

Enjoy.


...okay, I don't know why this crappy forum won't embed the youtube media. Tried with media embedding on and off. Whatever. Here's the link:

 

Very nice. I wish I lived closer to Austin, would love to get out there for a few laps myself.

 

COTA had a Cadillac "experience" type event the weekend before that I got to go to, and now I pretty much know that I need to drive this track as much as possible. It's that good (and it's also like, right there ). Sooooo much fun, though. MOAR!

FYI, OP--I think the Statesman had a pic of your helmet in their album.

 

The track really is THAT good. I had a blast. Who's the Statesman, and why are they photographing my lid?!

Bonus material:

Later in the same day, car was better, as was my driving. Better quality video too. I do make a couple mistakes, but I never post my fast laps, obviously. You'll also notice the car runs out of gas toward the end-- we were testing fuel mileage. The automatic reserve was turned off so we didn't get any false empties. Enjoy, again!

 

I'm so jealous, that track looks amazing, and there is very little chance I will ever make it out there to experience it. Cool stuff though, thanks for posting.

 

Since when are you guys running a 125cc engine? Thanks for the video!

 

Nice shifting. Track looks like a lot of fun

 

Statesman = Austin's newspaper. Yo' hat is famous? Haha.

Love the lap videos!

 

Where do you rank the track among your favorites Matt?

 

Aaaaaaah, that makes sense. A couple reporters were hanging out in the trailer the first day. Good people. Actually, about 99% of the people I met in Austin were super friendly.

If emotion is left out of it, I would actually rate this one as one of my favorites. Laguna is always going to be pretty much at the top, as is Sonoma, but this place is on a whole new level.

 

Ill be there in Feb with mvp. I clocked a 2:22 so I'm assuming qualifying will end up in the 2:20 or 2:19 range since it's practice and not your best laps.

 

I was going to mention there's an early year lapping event scheduled; and it's ALREADY sold out.

Thanks Matt... very neat.

 

At the beginning of Nov it was announced that SCCA will be racing there on the weekend of March 7-10. A couple weeks ago they released their new Majors tour schedule and its on there. Im hoping to see some of the fastest SMs at that race.