Attended the Trackcross yesterday and had a blast. It was a weird feeling being at track speeds. I had forgotten how fast it actually was and how much time I still left on the table due to just being timid on how hard I pushed the car.
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Overall, I didn't get a great feel on what the car wants to do. Tires really did not get up to temp, but the car still had tons of grip everywhere. It was hard to get the car to do anything unless I aggressively trail braked and had sloppy inputs like my 4th run in the morning sessions. I kept adding more and more throttle, without modulation, and earlier after turn in. The car just pointed and went with no issues. The car will rotate and can be throttle steered nicely if needed on tighter turns, but still has a slight bit of understeer on tighter turns, I think?? Maybe once the tires get up to temp and I learn to trail brake better the car will be just fine, but it was nice not having nasty oversteer like I did before.
Morning runs where we didn't get a time:
My fastest run was going to be my last, felt great in person and looked even better in video, unfortunately the 370z wrecked pretty gnarly like after the finish and I still ran a 64 after letting off and braking to slow after turn 8 when I saw the flag. Regardless, I started at a 64? and I gradually got faster by almost one second per run in the afternoon to a time of 61.4. For sure had some time left on the table with a better driver.
I also added the halos on the seat to get used to it. Yeah, for sure felt more confined and cut off vision. It was interesting looking over to my passenger side mirror, but driver's said and rear were fine. I wonder how it will be on track. Good thing I decided to run DE2 next weekend or I'd probably poo myself.
Afternoon runs:
Things to do this week:
Overall, I didn't get a great feel on what the car wants to do. Tires really did not get up to temp, but the car still had tons of grip everywhere. It was hard to get the car to do anything unless I aggressively trail braked and had sloppy inputs like my 4th run in the morning sessions. I kept adding more and more throttle, without modulation, and earlier after turn in. The car just pointed and went with no issues. The car will rotate and can be throttle steered nicely if needed on tighter turns, but still has a slight bit of understeer on tighter turns, I think?? Maybe once the tires get up to temp and I learn to trail brake better the car will be just fine, but it was nice not having nasty oversteer like I did before.
Morning runs where we didn't get a time:
My fastest run was going to be my last, felt great in person and looked even better in video, unfortunately the 370z wrecked pretty gnarly like after the finish and I still ran a 64 after letting off and braking to slow after turn 8 when I saw the flag. Regardless, I started at a 64? and I gradually got faster by almost one second per run in the afternoon to a time of 61.4. For sure had some time left on the table with a better driver.
I also added the halos on the seat to get used to it. Yeah, for sure felt more confined and cut off vision. It was interesting looking over to my passenger side mirror, but driver's said and rear were fine. I wonder how it will be on track. Good thing I decided to run DE2 next weekend or I'd probably poo myself.
Afternoon runs:
Things to do this week:
- Inspect car especially the lines
- Possibly lower the rear and get the car-realigned (still trying to decide if I want to do this yet)
- ??? Trying to think of other things