A Few Track Day Pics...

[Elbow]

From the Chin event this weekend. Crappy camera.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/simontibbett/ChinNov08006.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/simontibbett/ChinNov08024.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/simontibbett/ChinNov08032.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/simontibbett/ChinNov08013.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/simontibbett/ChinNov08016.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/simontibbett/ChinNov08021.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/simontibbett/ChinNov08025.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/simontibbett/ChinNov08027.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/simontibbett/ChinNov08030.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/simontibbett/ChinNov08033.jpg

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http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/simontibbett/ChinNov08046.jpg

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[WTF?]

wow amazing cars.....go i cant wait till i can affford me a lotus

[Halfwit]

nice pics.

[b16ftw]

nice...

[dkjohnson04]

looks like a blast! even in the rain!

[allen8603]

the black and the orange vette are gorgeous

[GhostSTI]

awesome cars!

[The Yousef]

is that a rollcage in the CTS-V? if so holy shit balls....

[Big Baller]

What kind of lap times where you guys turning in the rain

[OnURleft]

Simone where is my car ass?

Better yet where is my borrowed back up 4000lb, twin turbo, AWD, caged CTS-V passing rain back up vehicle?


wow amazing cars.....go i cant wait till i can affford me a lotus

I passed that Lotus in a Audi station wagon, you don't need a Lotus to do a track day!! If you wait until you can afford a Lotus or something like that before you hit the track you'll probably end up hitting the wall in car that requires that much talent to drive fast. Get my point? It's much better to learn on a momentum car or a car that will teach you and go as fast or faster then most of those expensive cars after to you acquire the skill. There's nothing like blowing buy a Gallardo in a Miata or an E30.
What you need to watch out for is those with the skill + the insane car. They are fast but 80% of the people with those cars can't drive them very fast and will never learn because they chose to learn on something like that first.


What kind of lap times where you guys turning in the rain

Our automatic toyota corolla rental car was doing 2:19's with a passenger, flat out in standing water. That sounds slow but we were passing up Carrera's, M3's, RX-7's, Vette's etc. in a damn 07' Corolla CE simply because of the tire compound and the conditions.. It was a blast.
My fathers Audi station wagon with me behind the wheel (4000lbs, automatic, 225-50-17's) was doing 2:14s-2:19's depending on the brake temps and how fast I felt like going in my dads only car. I was doing approx 109 on the back straight with a passenger, on stock pads in standing H20. On 225's there's literally no contact to stop a 4000lb car + 370lbs in passengers from 110mph in the rain. To put it in perspective if I went 110-113 the ABS would go crazy and i'd overshoot 10a or I wouldn't have enough room to stop without running into ABS.
The problem was fighting understeer in the audi as it has air suspension and no mods other than Hotckis sway bars. Once it pushed hard it hydroplained so you couldn't carry any speed through the esses or out of 5. However, you could use this to your advantage in 1-3-6-7-10a and 12 and do a hydroplaining rear end drift to get it to rotate and plant the gas on the floor.. If it had some wider tires with more traction I think I could've got in down another 3-4 seconds and run 70-85 through the esses instead of 50-70 in hydroplaining terror

The fastest car at the track out of all of those wasn't even doing any faster than 2:04 and that was on Hoosier rain tires..
40 degree's + standing water = no speed this weekend...
600+ WHP MTI vette's were doing 2:10's+ and one even went into the wall. The 3 R8's were doing no faster than 2:06 and some of the built carrera's on rain tires were only doing similar times to the stock AWD cars on street tires.

Sorry only picture someone took of the Audi that I could get uploaded. Thanks Simone even though its fuzzy as fuc. To bad you wern't there Sunday you'd a got some Audi shots running down some of the cars you posted lololo
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c67/95ltw/n770645227_4914380_8389.jpg

[FasTech]

I want to get into racing so bad. But awesome pics man.

[Elbow]

Simone where is my car ass?

Better yet where is my borrowed back up 4000lb, twin turbo, AWD, caged CTS-V passing rain back up vehicle?



I passed that Lotus in a Audi station wagon, you don't need a Lotus to do a track day!! If you wait until you can afford a Lotus or something like that before you hit the track you'll probably end up hitting the wall in car that requires that much talent to drive fast. Get my point? It's much better to learn on a momentum car or a car that will teach you and go as fast or faster then most of those expensive cars after to you acquire the skill. There's nothing like blowing buy a Gallardo in a Miata or an E30.
What you need to watch out for is those with the skill + the insane car. They are fast but 80% of the people with those cars can't drive them very fast and will never learn because they chose to learn on something like that first.



Our automatic toyota corolla rental car was doing 2:19's with a passenger, flat out in standing water. That sounds slow but we were passing up Carrera's, M3's, RX-7's, Vette's etc. in a damn 07' Corolla CE simply because of the tire compound and the conditions.. It was a blast.
My fathers Audi station wagon with me behind the wheel (4000lbs, automatic, 225-50-17's) was doing 2:14s-2:19's depending on the brake temps and how fast I felt like going in my dads only car. I was doing approx 109 on the back straight with a passenger, on stock pads in standing H20. On 225's there's literally no contact to stop a 4000lb car + 370lbs in passengers from 110mph in the rain. To put it in perspective if I went 110-113 the ABS would go crazy and i'd overshoot 10a or I wouldn't have enough room to stop without running into ABS.
The problem was fighting understeer in the audi as it has air suspension and no mods other than Hotckis sway bars. Once it pushed hard it hydroplained so you couldn't carry any speed through the esses or out of 5. However, you could use this to your advantage in 1-3-6-7-10a and 12 and do a hydroplaining rear end drift to get it to rotate and plant the gas on the floor.. If it had some wider tires with more traction I think I could've got in down another 3-4 seconds and run 70-85 through the esses instead of 50-70 in hydroplaining terror

The fastest car at the track out of all of those wasn't even doing any faster than 2:04 and that was on Hoosier rain tires..
40 degree's + standing water = no speed this weekend...
600+ WHP MTI vette's were doing 2:10's+ and one even went into the wall. The 3 R8's were doing no faster than 2:06 and some of the built carrera's on rain tires were only doing similar times to the stock AWD cars on street tires.

Sorry only picture someone took of the Audi that I could get uploaded. Thanks Simone even though its fuzzy as fuc. To bad you wern't there Sunday you'd a got some Audi shots running down some of the cars you posted lololo
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c67/95ltw/n770645227_4914380_8389.jpg

So true on everything! I can vouch for the Audi wagon being quick and stable, I rode shotgun for a few laps and we were talking the whole time. The conditions were horrible though, it was dark, heavy fog, wet, cold, ewww. lol.

Nice driving Ian :goodjob: :goodjob: :goodjob: :goodjob: :goodjob: :goodjob:

[Dwisforme05]

orange z06- :eek:

[AirMax95]

I tried to make it out, but the rain kept my ass in!

Looks like fun...maybe next time.

[Elbow]

Yeah the weather was just nasty, fog, misty all day, track was SOAKED.

[MeFryRice]

I know the owner of the black C6 Z06 pictured. He's a guinea pig for MTI Racing.

I didn't know you were there Ian, otherwise I would have said hey.