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<blockquote data-quote="13COBRA" data-source="post: 16829160" data-attributes="member: 138337"><p>First off...Feras' Corvette is perhaps the fastest car I've ever seen in person. on a racetrack. The amount of power that thing can put down is incredible. Truly awesome to watch.</p><p></p><p>It was a 3-day event. Saturday was freezing in the morning and then turned to rain in the afternoon. Like an idiot, I didn't bring tire warmers or anything. I was struggling to run a 1:47 and stay on track, so frustrating. Saturday morning I was able to use the tire warmers and it helped some...but was battling a brake issue in a few corners. It was really strange, because it was the same corners every time, and they weren't even necessarily the hardest braking corners.</p><p></p><p>After bleeding the brakes multiple times we realize the pads were getting knock back. Before the 2 corners they weren't catching, were high speed corners hitting that I was all over the curbs. New pads coming this week.</p><p></p><p>No way was I going to be able to have a chance at 1st, Feras was 7 seconds faster than everyone, but I really wanted 2nd. Nicholas Gardner in his aero-d GT500 on slicks was in my way. He's an avid Gridlifer and goes to every event. Super nice dude. Well I went out in my first session and knew I needed to run a 39.0 or better to secure second. I ran a 1:38.969 and came into the pits all excited. My spotter checked pressures, came to the driver window and said "good lap, but that mustang got you by 0.035.</p><p></p><p>On Sunday you only get two sessions. By the time I got back out on track after checking pressure, they'd already thrown the checkered and I couldn't get another flyer in. We went and ate lunch, checked tire pressures, shot shit with everyone on the paddock for a couple of hours. Being the 4th fastest car on the weekend (3rd in class, 4th overall) I was due to grid 4th, right behind Gardner in his GT500. Neither Feras or Jackie Ding (that kid can freaking drive) went out, so we gridded 1 and 2. I came through 13 on the warm up lap and slowed down to gap enough space where I knew I could catch him. We went out and both ran 39s and then I decided to string two together and go for it. He started letting off so I kinda dived him on turn 3 and had to compromise the line in order to get past him at speed. I missed the apex in T6, but other than that it was a clean lap. I was watching my lap timer the whole lap and kept seeing green so I knew it was going to be a good one. When I crossed the line with a 37.9 I was pumped. Moved me into 2nd on the weekend.</p><p></p><p>Here's my fastest lap of the weekend. Probably 1.5-2 seconds slower than what I could have done if I had just trusted the brakes.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]PvkzNn6duGo[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1764298[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="13COBRA, post: 16829160, member: 138337"] First off...Feras' Corvette is perhaps the fastest car I've ever seen in person. on a racetrack. The amount of power that thing can put down is incredible. Truly awesome to watch. It was a 3-day event. Saturday was freezing in the morning and then turned to rain in the afternoon. Like an idiot, I didn't bring tire warmers or anything. I was struggling to run a 1:47 and stay on track, so frustrating. Saturday morning I was able to use the tire warmers and it helped some...but was battling a brake issue in a few corners. It was really strange, because it was the same corners every time, and they weren't even necessarily the hardest braking corners. After bleeding the brakes multiple times we realize the pads were getting knock back. Before the 2 corners they weren't catching, were high speed corners hitting that I was all over the curbs. New pads coming this week. No way was I going to be able to have a chance at 1st, Feras was 7 seconds faster than everyone, but I really wanted 2nd. Nicholas Gardner in his aero-d GT500 on slicks was in my way. He's an avid Gridlifer and goes to every event. Super nice dude. Well I went out in my first session and knew I needed to run a 39.0 or better to secure second. I ran a 1:38.969 and came into the pits all excited. My spotter checked pressures, came to the driver window and said "good lap, but that mustang got you by 0.035. On Sunday you only get two sessions. By the time I got back out on track after checking pressure, they'd already thrown the checkered and I couldn't get another flyer in. We went and ate lunch, checked tire pressures, shot shit with everyone on the paddock for a couple of hours. Being the 4th fastest car on the weekend (3rd in class, 4th overall) I was due to grid 4th, right behind Gardner in his GT500. Neither Feras or Jackie Ding (that kid can freaking drive) went out, so we gridded 1 and 2. I came through 13 on the warm up lap and slowed down to gap enough space where I knew I could catch him. We went out and both ran 39s and then I decided to string two together and go for it. He started letting off so I kinda dived him on turn 3 and had to compromise the line in order to get past him at speed. I missed the apex in T6, but other than that it was a clean lap. I was watching my lap timer the whole lap and kept seeing green so I knew it was going to be a good one. When I crossed the line with a 37.9 I was pumped. Moved me into 2nd on the weekend. Here's my fastest lap of the weekend. Probably 1.5-2 seconds slower than what I could have done if I had just trusted the brakes. [MEDIA=youtube]PvkzNn6duGo[/MEDIA] [ATTACH type="full"]1764298[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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