05-20-2007, 09:35 PM
great weekend! i love shenandoah. it was especially nice since the track was fairly clear. like everyone else has said, it was really just a good time with good weather, shootin the shit with everyone and it was relatively incident free. my beginner student was completely green, never been on track before. he was lost his first session but really picked up the line quickly. it was sorta hard to work with him because he had a jetta TDI that was autotragic. it was kinda cool though because he told me he was running 70% biodiesel. my intermediate student had a nice R32 and had been at VIR last year once. i was actually very impressed by the car. it didnt really feel terribly heavy, but that V6 had a lot of power coming out of turns.
there were two sessions where i'd go out to follow chad and check his car for fuel leaks. that thing was spilling a ton out of the passenger side. he seemed to be frustrated by it the second time, so he decided to peg it in the bowl. i was treated to a nice light show by his exhaust rubbing the entire way through the bowl sending sparks everywhere. i'm surprised the spilled fuel didnt catch.
as andy eluded to, i was coming out of the bowl and going through the corkscrew when i saw a white grocery bag floating across the track. at that point, it was too late to swerve around it. i went right through it and didnt see it fly in my rearview mirror, so i was a bit frustrated thinking it got caught in my front grill and was blocking air flow to the radiator. every turn after that is a left hander. after little bend and then big bend, i was little white bits of plastic flying in my rearview, so i was a bit concerned as to what it was caught on. turns out the first right hander (aka the cut through) showed me that it was completely wrapped around my left front tire. i showed off my mad dorifto and tanksrapper skills and continued on with ol' balls collins behind me. after that session, we were packin up and as mike was changing back to his street tires, he found lots of white plastic that i had shed on track.
fuck, i wanna go back to shenandoah like now.
there were two sessions where i'd go out to follow chad and check his car for fuel leaks. that thing was spilling a ton out of the passenger side. he seemed to be frustrated by it the second time, so he decided to peg it in the bowl. i was treated to a nice light show by his exhaust rubbing the entire way through the bowl sending sparks everywhere. i'm surprised the spilled fuel didnt catch.
as andy eluded to, i was coming out of the bowl and going through the corkscrew when i saw a white grocery bag floating across the track. at that point, it was too late to swerve around it. i went right through it and didnt see it fly in my rearview mirror, so i was a bit frustrated thinking it got caught in my front grill and was blocking air flow to the radiator. every turn after that is a left hander. after little bend and then big bend, i was little white bits of plastic flying in my rearview, so i was a bit concerned as to what it was caught on. turns out the first right hander (aka the cut through) showed me that it was completely wrapped around my left front tire. i showed off my mad dorifto and tanksrapper skills and continued on with ol' balls collins behind me. after that session, we were packin up and as mike was changing back to his street tires, he found lots of white plastic that i had shed on track.
fuck, i wanna go back to shenandoah like now.
1994 Ford Ranger
2004 Honda S2000
2007 BMW X3
2004 Honda S2000
2007 BMW X3