04-30-2013, 02:55 PM
Just had my very first two track days last week end at Watkins Glen. I had quite a bit of fun, and the car held up really well. I did not even have to fill up any oil after 8x 30min sessions, and the brakes also held up well meaning they did not even get soft. But then again it may just have been me driving too slowly <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/wink.png" class="smilie" alt="" /> The car was great on the track, balancing is great and I was pretty fast, even though I was probably in the lower 1/3 of the hp range of the students cars ... But because of the balancing, I could go through the corners faster, and the Porsche brakes were also noticably better than on most of the other cars.
Other things I noticed were: The instructors essentially have three different marques of cars: Porsche (mostly 911/GT3s), BMWs (mostly M3s and Corvettes (mostly the Z06). My instructor had a Z06 he let me ride in with him for two session and I thought I was going to die ...
The students cars are variuos marques, mainly American makes. Now those cars had great hp (the guy parked next to me had a ??? charger or something with 650hp), but there are essentially no brakes <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.png" class="smilie" alt="" /> I saw an orange Dodge go off straight in turn one who had lost his brakes. A couple of times, it started to smell funny in the car, and I got worried for a moment until I realized that it was the guy in front of me with smoldering brake pads ... There were also two 911s there (930 from the 80s, and a Carrera 4s) as well as a Cayman. The 4s owner came over to ask me what model my Porsche was, since he had never seen one.
In any case, I saw some pretty serious race cars there, and also a drop dead gorgeous red Ferrari 348 which looks exactly like the 355 I am craving for (but probably will never own).
Also, before the first session, another instructor stoped by, and it turns out he is there in his white 92' 968 He told that was not his track car but his daily driver, and that in the some years he has been coming to Watkins Glen, he had never seen another 968.
In any case, big fun, I will like to it again this year <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.png" class="smilie" alt="" />
Other things I noticed were: The instructors essentially have three different marques of cars: Porsche (mostly 911/GT3s), BMWs (mostly M3s and Corvettes (mostly the Z06). My instructor had a Z06 he let me ride in with him for two session and I thought I was going to die ...
The students cars are variuos marques, mainly American makes. Now those cars had great hp (the guy parked next to me had a ??? charger or something with 650hp), but there are essentially no brakes <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.png" class="smilie" alt="" /> I saw an orange Dodge go off straight in turn one who had lost his brakes. A couple of times, it started to smell funny in the car, and I got worried for a moment until I realized that it was the guy in front of me with smoldering brake pads ... There were also two 911s there (930 from the 80s, and a Carrera 4s) as well as a Cayman. The 4s owner came over to ask me what model my Porsche was, since he had never seen one.
In any case, I saw some pretty serious race cars there, and also a drop dead gorgeous red Ferrari 348 which looks exactly like the 355 I am craving for (but probably will never own).
Also, before the first session, another instructor stoped by, and it turns out he is there in his white 92' 968 He told that was not his track car but his daily driver, and that in the some years he has been coming to Watkins Glen, he had never seen another 968.
In any case, big fun, I will like to it again this year <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.png" class="smilie" alt="" />
