:. Racing .:. 2004/06/12 - RMC BMW CCA Summer Series
Results: Here
Writeup/Notes:
This was the first BMW event of the year I was able to do, and these are great for development, since you get 8 runs in the car. Since this was only my second time on the Kumhos, Mike and I played with tire pressures quite a lot, and I think we got to a good setting - 37/34.
Looking at the video, it's plain to see that I have plenty of improvement to do with driving. I'm still too far off the cones, especially on the RH side, and I kept overcooking the stupid turnaround at this Coors field course. This was the fastest course I've driven yet in the Corvette, since the entire back stretch of the course, I needed third gear! It wasn't until my last 2 runs that I finally did shift into third, since my recent change of moving to LFB'ing made wanting to move my foot over to the clutch...not very attractive. So, I finished those last 2 runs with my right foot. Oh yeah, and listen for the great heel-toe downshifts at the end of the last 2 runs - sounds great :)
On the upside, the car continued to feel *great* in the higher speed stuff, even though it did understeer some in the slower corners. The car transitions very well, but seems to have a basic understeer balance, which hopefully the upcoming changes will help ameliorate.
On the fun-side of things, until the 6th runs of the day, I had FTD, which I'd never done before, but Feldpusch, as always, snatched it away in fine fashion, ultimately besting my best time by 0.8 seconds. *sigh*. We were also the quickest in our respective run groups, so we got to take a drive in a promo Z4 BMW that Gebhart BMW of Boulder brought out for fun. I did a 60.2 to his 58.6 or so, so he smacked me there again too. Damn you Feldpusch! (we always have a good-natured competition...)
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Media:
- Runs on Video: (12-15MB)
- Run 1 - a clinic on how *not* to drive...
- Run 2 - better - 57.4xx
- Run 3 - better still - 57.1xx
- Run 4 - better still - 56.9xx, but dirty still
- Run 5 - no, not a dupe of run #1...
- Run 6 - 57.3xx
- Run 7 - VaROOM! slowed down RF Braking the whole run - 57.7xx
- Run 8 - 56.9 clean, best of the day, but not good enough...
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