Well finally I got the chance to take my turbo car to Road Atlanta; it was my first even with the BMW-CCA, but I was stunt on how well organized everything was, and how good the weekend played out.
This was a DE only and as a DE the main objective is safety first and then learn how to drive, so I wasn’t going to go all ball’s out with out some key elements such as:
• Have not been in the “new” RA (they chance the course a bit).
• I didn’t have good tires until Sunday
• The TRM suspension was un-tuned
• In front of my instructor’s eyes, I was another rich guy with a 500WHP car with a dead wish.
• Being placed in group D made it really hard to try to go fast since other students were just starting out.
The good news is that the car went thru the weekend without issues, just traction issues and my wideband oxygen sensor went bad.
It took a lot to gain the trust of my instructor, but by the end of the weekend after we faced situations like: people driving really slow in front of me, people driving way off line, cars braking down, and me refusing to pass in some occasions due to safety; he finally came around and allowed me to put the car where I though it was happy, where I felt it was safe but fast.
My quickest lap was 1min 46sec, they are placing me on B for next even maybe then I’ll have a little more room to get a good rhythm going and get into the 1:30s and once I make it to group A I can jump from the RA-1s to hoosier’s, and really put some power to the ground. :evil2
BTW Sat. I was on all season tires, but for Sun. I bought some used RA-1s (lucky me a friend had them in her garage).
Well, here are the videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sepmmNWdCLU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUKi2p6BRro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfriPHTX7DM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFF3wfm6ErY
If you like them please rate them....
Thanks,
Rafa





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