Summit Point October 15-16th

[.RJ]

Aw come on....instructors Farked up their own sessions both days.

I didnt say it was nasa's fault.

[bimmerboodle]

Hey hey hey...
So Maeng says I'm now "one of us" I had a great weekend! The guy who was supposed to be my instructor got into a bad wreck on his first session, and I ended up with a really cool instructor. He's British, and he was great- yelling "beautiful! beautiful!" as we drifted through the carousel. I learned a lot, and managed to avoid the red mist, unlike some in our group... not mentioning any New Yorkers...
And, it was awesome when I dropped my instructor off and went back out solo for my last 4 laps. I was really nervous, but it was a blast being out by myself. w00t. So, with my first hit on the GFCP behind me... I also can't believe we've got until February for the next NASA event.
Avesome event, and it was great to see everyone.

You were doing great Sunday afternoon... was at station 4 and wishin' I was drivin'

[bimmerboodle]

Aw come on....instructors Farked up their own sessions both days.

I didnt say it was nasa's fault.

boy that was fast

[Mike]

Aw come on....instructors Farked up their own sessions both days.

I didnt say it was nasa's fault.

boy that was fast

that is how we do.

oh yeah, passing and being passed in the carousel is f'ing fun!

[bimmerboodle]

Listening to channel 3 and hearing them make fun of RJ

Hah! What did they say

Sorry, we can't tell you!

[bimmerboodle]

This showed up at tech Friday night:

This spun in 1 and hit the tires in 8 then got put away in favor of previous "Bad Ass" camaro.
The owner told me the throttle cable was fugged somehow and was sticking.

[.RJ]

oh yeah, passing and being passed in the carousel is f'ing fun!

Passing down the chute and in T10 is more better fun

[Chris]

Passing in T10 is more better fun

especially in group 1 hock:

[Evan]

oh yeah, passing and being passed in the carousel is f'ing fun!

Passing down the chute and in T10 is more better fun

passing without point-bys is more more betterer fun!

[Sijray21]

i never really got to respond to driving this weekend, but i felt like it was a GREAT weekend for being on track. The HPDE 2 group was fantastic, no trains and no real assholes. There were an incredible amount of incidents throughout saturday and a few on sunday - a lot more than usual. I felt like i finally got the braking down for the teg and the xp-10s that are equipped.

Scariest part of the weekend: Coming in to turn 1 (a 117mph and damn near bumping the rev limiter in 4th gear) and coming in too hot, spinning on track, over correcting, swinging around and facing traffic coming into 1....hock:... It didn't really shake me up at all, but my instructor was kinda queezy. I went off 3 times this weekend joining team green and got the full trust of my instructor by the end of the session on sunday. The other two off's were at 5 and were controlled - realizing that i was coming into hot (trying to compress brake zones all weekend).

[Mike]

oh yeah, passing and being passed in the carousel is f'ing fun!

Passing down the chute and in T10 is more better fun

mmm i dunno... i did both this weekend... passing in corners is fun, period.

[Mike]

oh yeah, passing and being passed in the carousel is f'ing fun!

Passing down the chute and in T10 is more better fun

passing without point-bys is more more betterer fun!

maybe you'll get to do it some day

[Dragon]

maybe you'll get to do it some day

OOOOH BURN!!! :twisted:

[navin]

Well I guess I could give a writeup of how my first track weekend went. Simply put, it was greaaaaat!

The perfect weather, people, and nothing going wrong with the car all added up for a great weeekend. It was a real pleasure sharing the track with Chris, Andy, John, Jess, and I believe Lindsay (s13 240). It was quite obvious that the MM group did not have their heads up their ass's like certain people in our classroom. I was a little worried in the class when some people were over analyzing everything and talking like they are F1 drivers.

I thought the classroom sessions were pretty helpful, Bob Okenford (?) really did a good job of explain certain things and really got me to calm my nerves.. Just wish people didn't think it was story time so we could have learned more..

Now about the driving, a bit nervous (actaully a whole chit load) and after meeting my instructor I was a bit timid. My instructor was Rick Poage (i believe thats his last name), owns a C4 Vette. I really have no clue why I was worried by this, but I was. Once we got on the track, after the 1st session he really got my nerves calmed and really worked with me to get apex's and tracking out.

After the first day I was feeling pretty good, my instructor really helped me out and kind of talked me up a little. Dont know if he was really being serious or just trying to calm me down, but whatever it helped!

Day 2 was just as fun, after a rough 1st session I was really starting to get consistent of nailing the apex's and tracking out. We practiced some late braking and going into Turn 4 "flat". I think I even suprised my instructor with a lil' Heel-Toe action

Last session got solo'd, which was a bit nerve wrecking but interesting. Got some really open space on the track and tried to work on braking differently w/o the added weight and correcting myself on mistakes w/o an instructor in the car. 120 MPH down the backstraight is money

I couldn't ask for more!

some other highlights/cliffnotes of my weekend..

- almost yacking after getting a ride with my instructor
- of course Vixens, schoolgirl chick was sooo money
- getting a point by from a supercharged Cobra

big ups to MM members, thanks for helping out the track n00b with my dumb questions. Workers, cant do it without you and your room

[Jeff]

I wanna get into an HPDE ASAP. What do they go though in the class room sessions?

[Mike]

What do they go though in the class room sessions?

what to do, what not to do.

navin,
dan unkefer.

[Andy]

navin,
dan unkefer.

Unk was money. I thought he was going to bombard us with all this info, but he was just trying to calm us down. The NewYorker and the Boxster driver were another story. Fake ass F1 drivers asking all of the most dumbest unrelated questions. They really cut into the learning time during classroom.

HPDE rocked. Can't wait for VIR

[Jeff]

navin,
dan unkefer.

Unk was money. I thought he was going to bombard us with all this info, but he was just trying to calm us down. The NewYorker and the Boxster driver were another story. Fake ass F1 drivers asking all of the most dumbest unrelated questions. They really cut into the learning time during classroom.

HPDE rocked. Can't wait for VIR

What all did they ask? I assume they were tryin to act like they knew so much?

[Sijray21]

any one have pictures of the black #45 teg in hpde 2?

[Andy]

any one have pictures of the black #45 teg in hpde 2?

Yeah. I remember that car. He was driving around with this hot ass asian chick