Yes! Can't wait. Ooo... reminds me gotta get hardparker parking ticket.

 

^ no pics, no care

 

^ no vid, no care.


Fast lap from Sunday. Had to lift on the straight to let the Z06 go but still managed a 19.4... If I didn't have to lift that might have been the elusive 18 second lap I was looking for.

Come at meh, biches!

 

^ no drive flat out, no care

you telling me a vette doesn't have enough power to pass your slow a$$ without you lifting. mad weak excuse son.

 

Why no drive flat-out?
Because flat spots on tires.

 

Why flatspot tires? Because drive flatout with no ABS.

 

Why no ABS? Because trying to Nguyen warm tire domination but vette need point-by.

 

3:40-4:00 I passed the Fiesta, before turn 7, because he was going really slow and let me by. I don't push my car until 2 full laps done and I usually don't drive the line then. This is why Marc and Justin were probably like WTF(as they are the only 2 cars that passed me) and on the track for 4mins already.

Now Marc having an enormous amount of experience on these tracks, he likes to bring the heat on cars in his way. It shows because he gets close to the cars/instructors in front of him and kinda swerves back and forth(telling you to move the fck over)causing some to get nervous (Justin holds back and looks for a window of opportunity or acknowledge his presence as we had no need to use point bys in red). I hate when someone is on your *** and gives you no room to slow down and pull to the side, puts me in a defend the passing line/FU mode and floor it. BUT there was no excuse for me blocking you from 4:40-5:05.. should of just let you pass. And Looking at my videos I wasn't the only idiot not driving "right" at times, but still no excuse either way. Saturday I was tracking even worse and only putting :27+, trying to figure out the damn car for the first time but watching my videos Saturday night helped me come Sunday morning to put some times down.. in fact 6 seconds faster. Anyways I had a great time with all of you guys for the second time. Again my apologies x10.


NOW the good stuff that my cam died and didn't get. BUT Marcs did

17:36 you can see me leading the pack at lightbulb, I actually passed those 3 cars between turns 3 to the lightbulb.. the last car silver 330 I had to out brake him because he blocked me since turn 5, and then again on inside at 7.. so coming out of 7 I was on his *** to make a move on lightbulb. I got him on the inside into the lightbulb late braking, then had to reposition mid apex to hit lightbulb apex cone and track out to the front. Thinking to that driver.. fck your couch That was my 1st hot lap. That was my first hot lap 1:23.9 and I swear it could of been a :20 if it were not for the 330s turn 5 and 7 hold up. Since the Focus and Mercedes I smoothly and quickly passed prior.

18:00 is the start of my 2nd hot lap with no traffic you can clearly see me pulling more speed thru turn 1 then the Mercedes and BMW.

Around 19:19 is the end of my 2nd hot lap. Putting down 1:21.6 (not bad for no ACD, st309 pads, and 245 kooks evo12s, mad excuses)

19:20 and on I was done with the session, I was taking it easy letting the car cool down after the 2 hot laps. Marc is running up on my *** for the 2nd time and you can see me taking the right lines(not the crap ones in the beginning of the vid).
THEN
20:05 during this cooling lap I lost my brakes a little pumping them(you can see me go wide in 7, which I'm always tight there and track out) the reason why I didn't take off from Marc after turn 7.. 5-6/10ths throttle. Moments later 20:19 I brake early to test brakes again into light bulb and still the same as turn 7 feeling weird but worse(I downshift to 3rd to engine brake).. after light bulb going to the front straight at the apex cone at, LICP popped off and no brakes. It's SCARY going into the pit at high speed with no brakes.. so I started to engine braking and ebrake simultaneously into the pit.

The late braking bmw330 deal and 2 hot laps is what had me coming in with smoking brakes, conveniently I blew the LICP out of lightbulb during my cool down lap and my total brakes failure at the same time. Track gods in favor of me for sure. Me 4 - Lightning 0

Thanks for the video and the fart at 28:24

 

^I dont' want to get into this debate over driving abilities. But if you dont' get on their ***, they don't let you by. The only times I give people room are in the hard braking zones...and that is to allow them and myself some room for safety reasons. What Marc is doing is not swerving, its merely letting the leading driver know he's there, and he wants to get by. It's a controlled effort to get attention. Swerving is what people do on the highways to avoid hitting things. Also, when you have to let someone pass, you stay on the line. The passing car will make the move to get off line. That was a fundamental rule taught to me by all of my instructors. We had a guy in blue move offline suddenly to let people pass, and it was very unpredictable and a little unsafe.

 

Example of getting on their azz, sort of. .. Ok guys have it, you like the line (I call it the Thai line with some Cantor mixed in)

Tired, did nothing but F off today. Bought Racerenderer software and made this here video.

I have not figured out how to overlay my Trackmaster data onto video. That is for later, also my dam camcorder seems to be broken. So I have 15 minutes of outside video that I cannot download.

Anyhow here is link to my Lap data if your interested:
http://www.mytrackmaster.com/#Sessio...XNzaW9uGMndCAw

 

^Come on old man...how the heck to you do the ProSolos and Nationals trips then?

 

Not a dig at you Nelson, don't take it that way, its just a comment in general.

I hate it when people just slow up in front of me when I'm trying to get by them, that is not the right way to execute a point by. I almost rear ended a few people doing that, its scary as hell.

 

Time for some tough love....

Totally agree with chu....I _do_ get up on people (and teach my students to do so also--as Marc). I _didn't_ get up on you because I had no effin clue what you were going to do out there. As I told you yesterday, you randomly broke while in a straight line, dove offline, and were completely unpredictable. Instructors need to be predictable...you DRIVE THE LINE. The PASSER moves offline--with a few exceptions. There was only a couple of instructors that I would have passed with out a point by, and that's because most of the instructors don't have wheel to wheel racing experience....the racers out there (that pass mid-corner) are the only ones I passed without a point.

If you get nervous by someone closing up on you, you have no business being in an advanced run group, let alone being an instructor. Part of the reason instructors are required to havee _a_lot_ of seat time before getting into the screamer seat is they need to be calm, comfortable, and have the situational awareness to keep your student from doing anything stupid--if the instructor does dumb stuff, they'll not be able to keep the student from doing dumb stuff. And, the instructor must be in control of the student and the car. You must be the authority. The only way to do that is experience.

 

I need harness bar, swaybars, coilovers, pads, tires and I'm good to go.

My strut mounts are officially broken btw.

 

Mike let me know if you need me to school your arss with racerender