Roebling Road, Mar 25-26

[.RJ]

Late notice but there's a 'seat time' event there friday/saturday and I'm going Probably not any interest in anyone else coming along but figured I'd post it up anyways.

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[JohnC]

Late notice but there's a 'seat time' event there friday/saturday and I'm going Probably not any interest in anyone else coming along but figured I'd post it up anyways.

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Driving your "track" car right?

[.RJ]

Its not a track car. Dammit.

[.RJ]

Event recap: Had a fantastic time!

The seat-time event was well organized, laid back, on time and a very safe group of drivers. Each group got about 3.5 hrs of track time - I dont think you can beat that for the $$ as a student. Roebling isnt exactly a country club, but if you wanted to check this track out this is definately the way to go for the amount of track time you get.

The track is fairly easy to learn, but pretty damn tough to go fast at. Track map here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.roeblingroad.com/track.html">http://www.roeblingroad.com/track.html</a><!-- m --> - all the turns are big and its tough to pick up references on the track to place the car for corner entry. Turn 1 is a fast 4th gear entry, and down to 3rd gear for T2. Up to 4th gear and flat out through T3 if you have tires (i dont). T3 is slower and back down to 3rd gear, carry 3rd all the way through T7. Shift to 4th coming out of T7 and flat out through T8 - my exit speed in the sled was about 105, and i could hit about 125 down the front straight. The sled understeered pretty bad on friday then saturday I stopped being a pussy and upped my entry speed, and once i could get the car sliding a bit on entry i could throttle steer it around through the big sweepers. I would hate to drive a FWD on crappy tires around that place. Its pretty hard on tires, although my ES100's seem to hold up alright, but they would get a bit greasy.

I only had one student, an older guy in a Porsche 996 that had never been on or seen a track before. Ever. Didnt have a clue. But I had a great time. He took to instruction very well, and was going pretty fast by the end of the weekend - excellent student overall. He did have his first taaaaaaaaank slapaarruuuuuuuu and spun off into the sand in T6 the 2nd day. Overall I think the car is pretty boring - the interior is really bland, it was very quiet inside, not terribly fast (280hp?) and pretty much devoid of any evil handling characteristics. It would still push a bit on corner entry and slowly changed into a neutral/slight oversteer by corner exit. Nice car I guess... I'd rather have an 993 RS America for half the coin.

[.RJ]

Pics!

Best licence plate evAr











Radical = t3h :blort:

[Feersty]

The new SLK is so beautiful. Is that the AMG addition?

[.RJ]

V8 (and 6-piston brakes), mofo

[Mike]

radical driver = short sleeves?

[dagold]

That is just pure sexy

[.RJ]

I definately need another car now. I got all red misted and shit chasing down and rolling a E46 M3..... so much for keeping my head out of my ass with my daily driver.

[BLINGMW]

glad you survived, and rollin M3's is what it's all about. 8)

[Evan]

I got all red misted and shit chasing down and rolling a E46 M3..... so much for keeping my head out of my ass with my daily driver.

wow, what a shocker

[John]

I definately need another car now. I got all red misted and shit chasing down and rolling a E46 M3..... so much for keeping my head out of my ass with my daily driver.

Want to buy my Z?

John, who needs to sell his kidney and buy a cardboard box...

[.RJ]

Want to buy my Z?

Straight up trade for the E36 and a case o' PBR?

[John]

Once you sell that R you'll have some cash. Just throw me $10K more and we'll call it a day.