ZephyrS4

I got very comfortable and stopped thinking about what I was doing wrong, and started getting the feel of the place. Riding in instructors' cars really puts it in perspectice how much I need to learn

earp

yup, it's nice to know more faces now too

R1ce

Learned a lot from him driving my car around for a few laps, then switching and getting some pointers for the rest of a session.

AlanL

At the same time, to drive the track that way all the time could add up to a really expensive tire habit. I would venture a guess that I could easily chew up a set of Toyo RA1's like the ones I had on it about 5 or 6 track days.

Being sideways is kinda fun, but track driving is going to be far more affordable if I back off a little from that kind of pace.

E Vader

....in the hands of a professional driver.

Hold on a minute while I change my underwear.....whew!

My only tragedy was dynomiting my Spec Stage III clutch on Saturday. I am not one to do much brand hating but, I want to be clear that this is my second Spec clutch failure in less than 6 months and I would highly recommend serious consideration of another product due to this recurrance.

I was doing +120mph on the back straight when it happened. The clutch turned into a salad of metal shards and stalled the car. The car would not restart and I was getting really hot into the breaking zone. At that point it was either hit the grass at close to 100mph or use speed scrubbin measures and whip the car around turn 11 without power assisted steering and power asisted brakes. I wagged the car left then right inoder to scrub speed while the corner worker stared at me like I was insane and then whipped it into the exiting lane at about 80-90mph, still trying to start the car and control it.

In the end Matrix was very helpfull in asisting me diagnose the problem and pointed me to metal shards that closely resemble the forks from the pessure plate from my clutch. I will be pulling the tranny this week and post pictures of the carnage.......all in all the weekend was fun and I thank the organizers.

Angular

Man, that sucks. How did you get the car home? or did you?

jeremy_matrix

Always happy to lend a hand Cable...