WHAT A BLAST!! My first race track day & a new world record...(longish)
09-08-2002, 12:46 PM
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WHAT A BLAST!! My first race track day & a new world record...(longish)
Wow!
Yesterday the team of german tuner Thorsten Wimmer had invited to a race track day on the (closed exclusively for that event) Hockenheim Ring Formula 1 GP course. It was designated as a TT event, but there were (being his customers) quite some Audi S3s and RS4s, a few BMWs (Z3 M coupes), and quite some Porsches (street-911s and some Porsche GT race cars).
Oh, and there were (officially) 138 TTs. Guess that's the new record, right?
Driving around the course was absolutely great for a first-timer like me. Too bad that my tires and front brake pads and discs were only around 300 miles old. After yesterday they're around 4,300 miles old
I tried to wait with the exchange until after Hockenheim, but 4 weeks ago one of my pads was completely gone (and my rear right tire was a slick). Still, with the new tires 10 laps on the track and the back end of my 225 slid like hell. Sheesh, sometimes you gotta have to pay for the fun )
It was an all day event, and I drove 3 times for a total of around 25 laps - I didn't manage to count the laps or even measure lap time - mostly I watched revs It was really cool, hadn't imagine that race track driving is *that* mucho fun.
During the event, no major casualties have been seen (which I think was really a surprise given the number of cars of which around 30 were on the track at a single point in time. The only (very minor) drawback was that due to the presence of some racecars (amongst them two 550+HP GT Porsches) you always had to watch your rear mirros very closely - but if you saw one of those two white hellofa911s in the rear mirror they had passed you anyhow in a blink of an eye, so no prob. The fun stuff with the other 911s was to annoy them when they tried to overtake inside a curve - hit on the gas in the middle of the curve and your AWD zooming you out of the curve into the straight gives them a hard time until they're on the straight again, too - hehe)
One time during the event we got around 90 of the TTs line up in the grid on the start/finish lane - expect some cool pics later...
The evening was an organized dinner/tour through the near Heidelberg castle with access to areas which are normally not open to the public. The day ended with a great firework atop Heidelberg and the castle. Absolutely a great day.
After yesterday, consider me a race track fan! 8P
Cheers,
Kai
Yesterday the team of german tuner Thorsten Wimmer had invited to a race track day on the (closed exclusively for that event) Hockenheim Ring Formula 1 GP course. It was designated as a TT event, but there were (being his customers) quite some Audi S3s and RS4s, a few BMWs (Z3 M coupes), and quite some Porsches (street-911s and some Porsche GT race cars).
Oh, and there were (officially) 138 TTs. Guess that's the new record, right?
Driving around the course was absolutely great for a first-timer like me. Too bad that my tires and front brake pads and discs were only around 300 miles old. After yesterday they're around 4,300 miles old
I tried to wait with the exchange until after Hockenheim, but 4 weeks ago one of my pads was completely gone (and my rear right tire was a slick). Still, with the new tires 10 laps on the track and the back end of my 225 slid like hell. Sheesh, sometimes you gotta have to pay for the fun )It was an all day event, and I drove 3 times for a total of around 25 laps - I didn't manage to count the laps or even measure lap time - mostly I watched revs
It was really cool, hadn't imagine that race track driving is *that* mucho fun.During the event, no major casualties have been seen (which I think was really a surprise given the number of cars of which around 30 were on the track at a single point in time. The only (very minor) drawback was that due to the presence of some racecars (amongst them two 550+HP GT Porsches) you always had to watch your rear mirros very closely - but if you saw one of those two white hellofa911s in the rear mirror they had passed you anyhow in a blink of an eye, so no prob. The fun stuff with the other 911s was to annoy them when they tried to overtake inside a curve - hit on the gas in the middle of the curve and your AWD zooming you out of the curve into the straight gives them a hard time until they're on the straight again, too - hehe
)One time during the event we got around 90 of the TTs line up in the grid on the start/finish lane - expect some cool pics later...
The evening was an organized dinner/tour through the near Heidelberg castle with access to areas which are normally not open to the public. The day ended with a great firework atop Heidelberg and the castle. Absolutely a great day.
After yesterday, consider me a race track fan! 8P
Cheers,
Kai
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