Samurai_Blue
Yolo Whippin'
This is an entire recap of the day ill be editing in Nicks recap as well as Nick's Laptimes as this thread develops. Due to the immense size of the videos (1-2gb) and the fact that youtube is weird about video formats there will be two additional videos posted
7/31/2010 1:45am
Me and my friend Roger leave Backyard Motorsports' garage in South Sacramento and start to make the trek to Buttonwillow.
7/31/2010 5:30am
Arrival at the Buttonwillow Raceway, cant sleep at all
Drivers meeting:
Im starting to get butterflies as i hear the advanced group take off from the grid and i study the track map, I have no idea on what to expect from the track, the instructional videos from matt only show you the student line and not what the track actually feels like and how your body/car will react. \
Session 1:
As we pull out from grid to do our session to learn the line my car was acting a little odd as it was going through some uphill corners, it seemed to have quite alot of undsersteer as i was goign around the corners. When i went to pit i changed tire pressure to 40 front 31 rear as recomended by Nick and Steve.
Session 2:
This was a point by passing exercise where we would be going a little faster 60-70 a good pace. this is where i practiced braking points for corner entry and i was a bit agressive. alot of the cars in my group seemed to be having a problem with corner entry braking as they would brake in the middle of corners -___- disrupting my driving cause i was going to hit the fucktards. In pits i discovered after my download meeting that my brakes were cooked...FLM...rested the car until my 3rd session.
Session 3:
This session i was a complete dumbass and should have listened to Matt, Nick and Steve (my apologies). I left grid last because i was being given instruction on how to preserve my pad life by Steve, I left and for some reason something clicked because i took a session with Steve and wanted to try out his line. I liked his line, I liked it alot and i was comfortable with it on the first lap and I caught up with two BMW 3 series cars and we battled for a while and they pointed me by so i passed them (one was a M3). On my 4th lap my brakes were starting to go and my car wasnt cooperating in the corners as i wished it would nearly spinning a few times. On the last corner before the start finish, i heel toed to 3rd a little early which threw off my rhythem and hit the burm and began to drift to the outside of the track trying to correct it i started to steer drivers left and my back end let loose. I spun. Went off and checked the car. (video below)
Session 4: Took it alot easier and tried to learn the line and focus on my braking, not too eventful but my last few laps when i was comfortable with everythign tried to get back into a more agressive pace and it paid off brakes were preserved and well. (video soon)
Session 5:
left before session started due to fatigue and i wasnt trying to tow my car home if i did somthing stupid.
7/31/2010 1:45am
Me and my friend Roger leave Backyard Motorsports' garage in South Sacramento and start to make the trek to Buttonwillow.
7/31/2010 5:30am
Arrival at the Buttonwillow Raceway, cant sleep at all
Drivers meeting:
Im starting to get butterflies as i hear the advanced group take off from the grid and i study the track map, I have no idea on what to expect from the track, the instructional videos from matt only show you the student line and not what the track actually feels like and how your body/car will react. \
Session 1:
As we pull out from grid to do our session to learn the line my car was acting a little odd as it was going through some uphill corners, it seemed to have quite alot of undsersteer as i was goign around the corners. When i went to pit i changed tire pressure to 40 front 31 rear as recomended by Nick and Steve.
Session 2:
This was a point by passing exercise where we would be going a little faster 60-70 a good pace. this is where i practiced braking points for corner entry and i was a bit agressive. alot of the cars in my group seemed to be having a problem with corner entry braking as they would brake in the middle of corners -___- disrupting my driving cause i was going to hit the fucktards. In pits i discovered after my download meeting that my brakes were cooked...FLM...rested the car until my 3rd session.
Session 3:
This session i was a complete dumbass and should have listened to Matt, Nick and Steve (my apologies). I left grid last because i was being given instruction on how to preserve my pad life by Steve, I left and for some reason something clicked because i took a session with Steve and wanted to try out his line. I liked his line, I liked it alot and i was comfortable with it on the first lap and I caught up with two BMW 3 series cars and we battled for a while and they pointed me by so i passed them (one was a M3). On my 4th lap my brakes were starting to go and my car wasnt cooperating in the corners as i wished it would nearly spinning a few times. On the last corner before the start finish, i heel toed to 3rd a little early which threw off my rhythem and hit the burm and began to drift to the outside of the track trying to correct it i started to steer drivers left and my back end let loose. I spun. Went off and checked the car. (video below)
Session 4: Took it alot easier and tried to learn the line and focus on my braking, not too eventful but my last few laps when i was comfortable with everythign tried to get back into a more agressive pace and it paid off brakes were preserved and well. (video soon)
Session 5:
left before session started due to fatigue and i wasnt trying to tow my car home if i did somthing stupid.
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