"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
04/15/2019 at 08:48 • Filed to: None
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"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
04/15/2019 at 08:48 • Filed to: None | 2
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half day racing school in freaking RADICALS (more after video)
Its at Atlanta Motorsports Park, and this will be my first experience outside of karts on a proper racetrack. And what an experience it’ll be. Just the description has my hyped.
“This half day experience is designed to give you a taste of what it’s like to be a race car driver while enjoying the thrill of driving a Radical SR1 race car. You get to suit up like a pro with full-face helmet and racing suit, and learn the fundamentals of driving a race car. To reinforce our classroom session, and prepare you for the experience of a lifetime, we follow up with live demonstrations and practice laps in our street cars as well as time in high tech racing simulators.
Drive a real 182 bhp Radical SR1 race car, 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds
Two 15 minute track sessions in a Radical SR1
No prior experience necessary
Suit and helmet provided.
You’ll be strapped into a real 182 bhp Radical SR1 racecar, capable of accelerating from 0-60mph in 3.5 seconds and reaching 140mph in the draft. These high precision cars can pull up to 2g’s in the corners and stop on a dime. The reclining seat position, open cockpit provides you with the unique experience and a birds-eye-view of exactly what the pros see when they are battling it out, head-to-head on TV.”
Holy... I’m either gonna have fun or die having fun but it’s definitely going to be an eye opener
vondon302
> Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner
04/15/2019 at 09:09 |
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Radical!
How much does that run? Radical seat time can't be cheap.
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Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner
> vondon302
04/15/2019 at 09:17 |
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a half day experience with two 15 minute sessions and lots of sim/classroom/learning the track is $550. full day is $1500. God knows how much the 3 day school is
ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner
04/15/2019 at 10:26 |
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That will be seriously fun. It will change your paradigm for what you thought was possible in four wheels and seat. Are the sessions lead-follow, or are they actually turning you loose?
NYankee1927
> Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner
04/15/2019 at 10:27 |
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That is going to be a blast. I am trying so hard to make my way back to single seaters. Hopefully they give you free reign and not just lead follow
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Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
04/15/2019 at 10:40 |
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hopefully they turn us loose and then analyze our driving. but you never know
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner
04/15/2019 at 11:10 |
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The answer to that question probably lies in the answer to this one: are you liable for damage to the car?
Generally, in these types of track programs the only way folks are truly turned loose is if they’re held personally liable for the car. More commonly (think things like the AMG driving academy and others like it), they don’t hold folks liable for damage (I imagine it’s easier to get more paying customers when they’re not on the hook for a 10 0K car) , but the track sessions will be much more tightly controlled. Lead-follow with something like 1-4 students of similar skill per instructor is a really great instruction method, and it also allows the pace to be controlled and matched to the capabilities of the students. The instructor will be driving by their mirrors, and you can really tell when you’re approaching the limits of the students behind you and adjust the pace accordingly.
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Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
04/15/2019 at 11:27 |
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yeah you are liable but idc its gonna be hella fun
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner
04/15/2019 at 12:00 |
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Cool. That should be even more fun. Thinking about it from the instruction perspective (I used to do a lot of track instructing back in the day), I can see an argument here that the capabilities of the car are so far beyond what most folks who aren’t racer s have ever experienced that most students are going to be having the time of their lives and still not really probing the limits of what the car is capable of.
Combine that with what I would imagine to be a pretty conservative set up on the car (set the ride height higher, spring it softer, keep the rear toe conservative, set the rear sway bar adjuster on the softer side of things) with running something like a 200TW tire (F alken A ze ni s 615's or similar that tend to be much more forgiving at and past the limit than race rubber ) could yield something fairly docile at the limit.
You’re going to have a blast! If there is something out there better than playing with racecars, I don’t need it. I want to give you a 50/50 chance you start looking for a Spec Miata/used IT car and a tow vehicle afterward .
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Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
04/15/2019 at 12:02 |
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i got a tow vehicle (see the second half of my name) and i’ve been browsing used racing car websites for years now
Mini’s are pretty cheap race cars hmmmmmmmmmm