Lapping Session - Race City

[JPO]

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Bummed to hear about these track woes cause I am scheduled for an allen berg road car course in July. A guy at work with an open wheeled race car said there have been bits of track flying up all over the place.

[RSS]

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Who is the guy with the open wheel car?

First race for me this season is June 4-5 hopefully they do some paving before then.

[JPO]

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Who is the guy with the open wheel car?

First race for me this season is June 4-5 hopefully they do some paving before then.

His name is Steve Ross and he races in the WCMA Formula car Series.

[RONDAL]

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the track isn't THAT bad in a road car, but in the formula cars i cant even imagine what some of the lines are like. its almost gotta be like motoX when the ruts get so bad you have to get off the racing line to maintain a stable car

[RSS]

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Well you should have seen my bruises after the track day both knees both elbows and my back i was sore for a couple days.

JPO if you could tell Steve to drive slowly the first event so i won't look so slow it would be greatly appreciated.

[JPO]

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Well you should have seen my bruises after the track day both knees both elbows and my back i was sore for a couple days.

JPO if you could tell Steve to drive slowly the first event so i won't look so slow it would be greatly appreciated.

Lol. I'll ask him but I'm not sure it'll do much good.

[RONDAL]

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Well you should have seen my bruises after the track day both knees both elbows and my back i was sore for a couple days.

JPO if you could tell Steve to drive slowly the first event so i won't look so slow it would be greatly appreciated.

i could only see you coming out onto the straight before the chicane where that shallow dip was, and even there you looked like you were grounding out.

any damage to the bottom of the car?

[RSS]

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We put rub strips on the bottom of the car for that exact purpose but that reminds me I should check those before the first race.

[JPO]

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OP how was it? Lots of fun I assume.

[RSS]

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OP how was it? Lots of fun I assume.

Was this directed at me?

[JPO]

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Nope. To the OP.

[RONDAL]

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Was this directed at me?

When are you next heading down Roger?

[RSS]

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I will be in Calgary May long to get the car prepped as we have cancelled our trip to Knox mountain then after that it's June 4-5 for the race

[Deuce]

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Thoughts on Day 1 of the event:
- Anyone who hasn't been to a track event at least once with their car needs to go. For me personally, I had no idea that the .:R would corner and stop as well as it does. Of course, 40 psi and a set of KW V2's doesn't hurt.
- The track isn't exactly "smooth" pavement but agreed, for a road car it's liveable .
- My 5 hot laps with the instructor in his Red BMW 3-series were ridiculous. If I wasn't being choked by the seatbelt, I was thinking to myself... "Where does he keep the barf bags?" . Man... he could really hustle that thing around the track.
- Them Jeep SRT8's can really move. Not sure if the Black one was "100% stock" or not but holy crap... that thing pulled like a freight train down the front stretch.

Overall, it was a blast. Can't wait for Day 2 tonight. The .:R loves the 1-2-3 after the straightaway and 12 or whatever the last corner is before the beginning of the straight. I had a couple of Mustang GT's behind me for a number of laps and although they would close the gap on the straight, I would lose them on 1-2-3. They would then play catch-up all the way to about 11. However, I could always launch out of 12 on to the straight much cleaner and create a gap again down the stretch with more speed intially. I would usually see about 180 on the straight before corner 1 started to scare the sh*t out of me and I would get on the brakes really early. Still trying to master the heel & toe downshifting which is doable quite consistently when I'm calm and decelerating off of a Deerfoot exit ramp. However, on the race track with cars behind, in front, corners coming flying up, drver instructor going "go, go, go, GO!"... is entirely a different story! Oh well... practise!

PS. My good friend Rick was out taking a few shots so here's a pic for clicks. If I can get a few more... will post them up as well.

Cheers all.

[JPO]

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Thoughts on Day 1 of the event:
- Anyone who hasn't been to a track event at least once with their car needs to go. For me personally, I had no idea that the .:R would corner and stop as well as it does. Of course, 40 psi and a set of KW V2's doesn't hurt.
- The track isn't exactly "smooth" pavement but agreed, for a road car it's liveable .
- My 5 hot laps with the instructor in his Red BMW 3-series were ridiculous. If I wasn't being choked by the seatbelt, I was thinking to myself... "Where does he keep the barf bags?" . Man... he could really hustle that thing around the track.
- Them Jeep SRT8's can really move. Not sure if the Black one was "100% stock" or not but holy crap... that thing pulled like a freight train down the front stretch.

Overall, it was a blast. Can't wait for Day 2 tonight. The .:R loves the 1-2-3 after the straightaway and 12 or whatever the last corner is before the beginning of the straight. I had a couple of Mustang GT's behind me for a number of laps and although they would close the gap on the straight, I would lose them on 1-2-3. They would then play catch-up all the way to about 11. However, I could always launch out of 12 on to the straight much cleaner and create a gap again down the stretch with more speed intially. I would usually see about 180 on the straight before corner 1 started to scare the sh*t out of me and I would get on the brakes really early. Still trying to master the heel & toe downshifting which is doable quite consistently when I'm calm and decelerating off of a Deerfoot exit ramp. However, on the race track with cars behind, in front, corners coming flying up, drver instructor going "go, go, go, GO!"... is entirely a different story! Oh well... practise!

PS. My good friend Rick was out taking a few shots so here's a pic for clicks. If I can get a few more... will post them up as well.

Cheers all.

Sweet, I am really looking forward to getting out, hopefully the S4 surprises to the upside like your R.