Phlash, I did not get on the brake hard enough and accelerate through the turn. That's my story and I sticking with it. But, I'd love to get your take on it.

 

I, by all means, am no track ho or certified track freak such as TA or STF...what do I think? I can't really tell how much or how long you were in/on the brakes, but if you crank the sound I don't hear any throttle in that turn......my take, because I've done that same thing, is stay in the throttle, even a little, to keep the rear planted........just my .02.......use at your own risk.......

Sidebar: The video brace seems to work great! You are a lot smoother than the last time I saw you drive at TGPR....way to go!!

 

nice vid SIlver----
Better understanding now of " slow in--fast out?" On that type of turn? Happens fast doesnt it? It is invaluable to experience that so you know how the car handles in that type of slide.
You are running stock shocks aren't you. Rear end does get a little dancy under high speed hard braking with the oems. But you may just had done as you said "too hot!"
Looks like a fun hard braking track--check your intake this week--see if any blow back is in there. WElcome to the coil club!
Olddragger

 

OK. My turn to chime in. First of all, thanks for the kind words Rob, STF and BigPine. It was a perfect weekend except for my "brain fart" on Sunday morning; y'all were kind enough not to mention it. If anyone sees a video of a blue RX-8 doing a dramatic spin in turn 10 at about 100 mph, it wasn't me. I apparently left my body for a short time. When I returned to my body, I found myself in the grass facing the wrong way. It was a little bit embarrassing, but provided a good lesson.

Rob was a great instructor. He and his wife Ravelle are terrific people to hang with. I'll definitely keep in touch for other events.

Big Pine, you crack me up! Your G-meter would make me dizzy.

The Mustang Club that put on the event was first class. Everything ran like clockwork. No session ran more than 5 minutes late. We got lots of track time!

I'll definitely sign up for this one next year!

 

Thanks Phlash, I agree with you and OD. I was hot coming in because I didn't brake hard enough and like you said I was not on the gas. After that incident I never had that problem again in that turn and I started hitting the brakes later and harder and on the gas much better. It was a good thing it happened and I did learn from it.

Edited another one last night and will get it posted this evening when I get home. I still need to finalize and compress it.

 

That, my good friend, is what these events are all about! Keep up the good work!

 

Video #2: RX-8 vs Mustang

It took a while but it was my sweetest victory all weekend. Then I set my sites on an Audi. Too much fun it is! I used music on this one instead of the actual audio because my audio in the car got turned off somehow.

EDIT:
I deleted the music and left it without audio after the sound went off. The music was obnoxous! No sound is better than sucky music.

 

This is Driver's Education, not racing!

 

Well, I didn't time it!

 

Video #3: Start in back

I asked to bring up the rear to see if I could pass through the crowd. So I had to deal with slow traffic. A fast Mustang passed me but after a brief two-wheel encounter with the dirt that earned him a pull-in. I didn't see him again.

 

I'm compressing my last session now. I started on the lead position. This is a complete 20 min. session with no edits. As we were pulling out on the track, I told Rob, my instructor, I was going to dial it back and just make sure I didn't screw anything up but what I actually wound up doing was making my best laps of the weekend. I will have it uploaded this evening.

Edit:
Stupid spelling of my instructor corrected!

 

Ray? Is this video from your Road Atlanta event?

 

Ah, no... (ducks under the table) Not shure why I miss typed your name... sorry!

That's Rob!

 

OK, I believe this will be the last one. I have to get some other things done around the house.

EDIT:
Video is temporarly down. I need to re-compress it. Seems to have a glitch at 2 min.

EDIT II:
I'm moving the link to a later post.

 

ok I am waiting to see this vid---agggghhhhh!
OD

 

It's compressing right now. Then I will have to upload it.

 

Video #4, Full session: From the Front of the Pack

Pretty boring unless you want to learn the course.

 

More photos from our gracious photographer, Thanks Ravelle!

 

More...

 

another couple:

 

I took me a while, but I'll be posting the video soon. It's getting approved on google video as we speak. I am the driver that taped Kurt Bob's car spin through the kink at CMP

EDIT
RX-8 spin

 

not only is that what I believe to be the only video of kurtbob, but a scary one at that. That looked insane. Is there any chance you have that file a little less compressed, I would notmind having a copy of it, somehow.

 

Hi Stimpy! Enjoyed talking with you at CMP. I wish you could have seen your face when you came by our EZ-Up and was telling me about the vid and the spin. your eyes were WIDE open and you had a huge $#!t eating grin on your face like you had just won the lottery. I loved it!

It's interesting, the video does not really show the speed at which he was going when he made that exit of the track. I think we are talking over 103 MPH. His instructor was the same as mine and after that spin, Rob kept telling me ever time we entered the kink, "On the gas!" which is the same thing your instructor was telling you so you would not let up and do the same thing Kurt did. Actually that turned out to be a good lesson for us all. (Pay attention guys that are driving with NASA next month.)

Thanks for posting.

 

I had a lot of fun that weekend. That event was very well organized.

I am going again tomorrow for 1 day with Turn 1 Motorsports.

Same here, I was glad to see some other cars out there besides mustangs

I can encode it in MPEG-2. I can put it up on my server (slow), you should be able to get it if you are patient enough. I'll let you know as soon as it is up there.

 

Thanks, great shot!