"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
03/18/2018 at 22:10 • Filed to: None
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"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
03/18/2018 at 22:10 • Filed to: None | 4
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What a lovely day in Texas, unfortunately it didn’t rain which might have given me an advantage considering I brought a boat. It was a fun day though learning the wonders of undefeatable stability control and terminal understeer. I am slightly kidding since it was a very enjoyable day. I like the challenge of something I am not used to and getting the chance to have more seat time chasing cones. We got 12 runs (6 on each course) so it was a long day. It was an interesting setup with two courses running parallel to each other in an attempted mirror of one another. I ran 2 full seconds different between the two though so clearly something was different to me. Some people ran about the same but most had a similar offset to me. I did not really beat too many people but such is expected with the flawless track weapon that I brought. I had fun though and that is all that counts. I had the most trouble with the christmas tree, drag racing start. Since stepping on the gas and the car actually moving was most of the delay. This lead to 1+ seconds of “reaction time” every time. When I know for sure that as long as my Miata found traction that would not happen.
Here is a video of the courses since youtube brings the wonders of laziness so that I dont have to bother ever bringing a camera:
Being 1500 miles away from my Miata is difficult but at least this Malibu got to be a Miata in spirit for a day.
ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
03/18/2018 at 23:45 |
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Cool, they did a pro solo practice! The trick with the christmas tree start is to focus past the lights and let your peripheral vision pickup the movement of the lights.
If you stare at the tree, by time you’ve seen the lights and your brain has said “hey stupid, go! It’s green!!”you’ve been sitting there for a second after the green lit. You can actually practice this at stop lights on the street. Focus past light, let your peripheral vision pick up the movement of the light from red to green, and go (very carefully) on that movement.
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Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
03/19/2018 at 09:13 |
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I think if live timing had been working during my runs, I would have had a better idea and tried to work on it. But once I had no idea how to track what was going on I spent all of my time just focusing on smooth runs and not caring about times
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
03/19/2018 at 10:16 |
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Pro solo is a little different, but a lot of fun. At the actual pro solo tour events, the two courses are actually set up with a tape measure to try to be as close to a mirror image as possible. I dug being able to look across to the other course and see where the other car was and if you were “winning.”
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Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
03/19/2018 at 10:23 |
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Yeah I figured since it was a local event that they were more interested in it being mostly similar. I knew it was different just from my course walks but it was more surprising at speed how the seemingly minor differences added up. Interesting concept though, definitely seems like I would like to try a pro solo at some point though. It made cone calls seem crazy hectic though. Any sort of miscommunication led to extreme delays since their computer didnt seem to easily track which course a car was on. And god damn people who use grey or other dark colored and tiny numbers on a dark car.