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Noah aka “Mr Crazy” at MVP Track Time’s HPDE @ Road America

 

5am is way to early.  I’m not a morning person.  But considering I get to hustle my butt, downhill, at 140mph, into a sharp left hand corner time and time again, losing a few hours of sleep is well worth it.

Getting to the track early to go thru tech inspection you drive past row after row of race prepped Vipers, Z06s, and Porsche GT3 RSs.  Couldn’t have asked for a more perfect day.  Mid 80s temps with sunny sky.

Started the day out feeling out the track and the car and dialing in the tire pressure and as the track temps rose the tires offered more and more grip.   Really surprised at the amount of grip the skinner 275 wide NT01s on the rear offered.  Felt just as good at the 305 wide Nittos I had run before.  I was pulling faster and faster laps as the day progressed and there isn’t a greater feeling than passing up C6 Z06s and Ferrari 430 Scuderias. Fastest recorded lap time put in at 2:45.  Not bad for a stock C5 FRC. It was a great time walking around and talking to other drivers about their cars and their driving lines and styles.

 

 

SCCA event #3 and #4, aka the CenDiv’s. The weekend started out great, well almost….. 1st run out and we (Andy and Eric) knew something wasn’t right. Blown shock. Jump on the driver’s front, car didn’t move much, do that to the other side and the car bounced like a 1980 Cadillac.  We called every single place we could think of, nothing in stock anywhere.  So, the only thing left we could think of, is to drive faster!   We finished the weekend with a 1/3 finish in class, and 13th/28th overall out of 177 total entries.

Shane in his 2005 Subaru STi had some problems of his own.  The ABS started acting up for unknown reasons.  If you know STi’s very well, you know that when the ABS doesn’t work, neither does the DCCD system.  So Shane had to drive his ass off with a half-ass working AWD system and no ABS.  He took 5th in class and 64th/177 overall.

Class Results: http://www.scca-milwaukee.org/solo/2012/e6/Cendiv%20Two%20Day%20Results,%20Class.htm#A

Overall Results: http://www.scca-milwaukee.org/solo/2012/e6/Cendiv%20Two%20Day%20Results,%20PAX.htm

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