03-30-2009, 08:00 AM
This weekend has been an absolute blast!!
The NASA comp school is excellent, we did the school in the rain at VIR during which I learnt a ton of stuff.
The school consisted of 5 50minute classroom sessions including a written test, 4 40 minute track sessions and we had to do at least 2 sessions in a flag station during the course of the rest of the weekend provided we passed comp school.
There were 66 cars in Saturdays race which I did on R-6's, big mistake as it started raining again while we were on false grid. However I finished 2nd in class. In qualifying I finished 8th in the field.
Sundays race was the best, it was a 40 minute sprint. I did not qualify well and had to make up time, however I pushed a little too hard in Turn 1 on the 2nd lap and went into the pasture [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img] . It took me about 35 seconds to get back on track, however I was happy to go off as this was 1st ever off track experience and was happy that it did not bother me at all.
I did however drive at 10/10th's the rest of the race which was 13 laps total. I finished 19th overall out of 70 cars and had the 3rd fastest lap, I was a 1/2 second of the fastest which I was very happy with as I had to pass a ton of cras as almost the whole field had passed me when I went off.
I did manage to finish 1st in class though, there were 4 cars in my class the other 3 all were 944 turbo's.
Bad news is that my video card ran out half way through lap 2, I'm really pissed about that as there would have been a great clip of 6 spec miata's going though the uphill esses like crazed roaches [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] .
I ran in the 944Cup series, great group of guy's and very well run by Dave Derecola, good work Dave!!!
A huge thanks goes to Will and John at Precision Motorsports racing, they did a fantastic job setting up the car.
BTW we ran the car at 3205lbs (after race weight) and it dynoed at 222whp, 208 lbs torque at the track dyno. I was running on 93 octane. People at the track were very impressed with PMR's work. I owe John big time as he worked on the car from 7am last tuesday till 10pm at night to make sure it was ready. Will was great, he stayed too and really made sure all was ready, he really knows how to build a race car out of a 968.
The NASA comp school is excellent, we did the school in the rain at VIR during which I learnt a ton of stuff.
The school consisted of 5 50minute classroom sessions including a written test, 4 40 minute track sessions and we had to do at least 2 sessions in a flag station during the course of the rest of the weekend provided we passed comp school.
There were 66 cars in Saturdays race which I did on R-6's, big mistake as it started raining again while we were on false grid. However I finished 2nd in class. In qualifying I finished 8th in the field.
Sundays race was the best, it was a 40 minute sprint. I did not qualify well and had to make up time, however I pushed a little too hard in Turn 1 on the 2nd lap and went into the pasture [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img] . It took me about 35 seconds to get back on track, however I was happy to go off as this was 1st ever off track experience and was happy that it did not bother me at all.
I did however drive at 10/10th's the rest of the race which was 13 laps total. I finished 19th overall out of 70 cars and had the 3rd fastest lap, I was a 1/2 second of the fastest which I was very happy with as I had to pass a ton of cras as almost the whole field had passed me when I went off.
I did manage to finish 1st in class though, there were 4 cars in my class the other 3 all were 944 turbo's.
Bad news is that my video card ran out half way through lap 2, I'm really pissed about that as there would have been a great clip of 6 spec miata's going though the uphill esses like crazed roaches [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] .
I ran in the 944Cup series, great group of guy's and very well run by Dave Derecola, good work Dave!!!
A huge thanks goes to Will and John at Precision Motorsports racing, they did a fantastic job setting up the car.
BTW we ran the car at 3205lbs (after race weight) and it dynoed at 222whp, 208 lbs torque at the track dyno. I was running on 93 octane. People at the track were very impressed with PMR's work. I owe John big time as he worked on the car from 7am last tuesday till 10pm at night to make sure it was ready. Will was great, he stayed too and really made sure all was ready, he really knows how to build a race car out of a 968.
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2009, 08:10 AM by garylimey.)
