Couple of laps around Rockingham viewed from the top of my Z. Enjoy!
Cation this is 42mb!
rockingham11/05

 

Mike... thanks for the vid... looks good!

ya know, I didn't really notice when I was on track (what few laps I got) but I'm gonna find out who put that apex cone up at turn 5 (that last right hand bend before turning left to get back on the oval.) I think the corner workers may have done that after we blew the track down or something... its a good 10-15 feet early (hard to tell with the slight fish eye of your camera.)

Also, your camera really doesn't do justice to your speed or how steep the banking is there through NASCAR 1 & 2.

 

Yeah the hieght of it takes away the speed but give a great foward view, all ready thinking the next time will position it on the hood or even mount it in the bumper. This will increase the speed sensation a good bit.
I have one more but waiting on the tape from the other Mike of me running down the Viper Should be up this weekend. I was sorry John crashed out, he and I usually give some great vids of us chasing each other.
Disclaimer : we are not racing just happen to be following each other closely

 

I envy you, I have only been able to drive this track on Forza Motorsports

 

Uh huh Marty and I know how that goes

 

The video is broken into several section, otherwise it would be just to long. Sorry we did not catch the end of it but I still feel great about it.

viper chase

btw the viper guy who was pretty cool asked if I was FI. ah no

 

The viper guy used to drive a Z.

 

nice driving, but i wouldnt really call it "running down a viper" more Like, caught up to it in traffic, with that said nice driving! and I had fun. The Z's were doing well out there, it was crappy weekend for my car, shredded my track tires on Saturday and had suspension issues, so i had to run on crappy street tires, so i cap'd my speeds on the oval at 100mph and only ran the car at @70%....still nice driving and I had fun. TZC puts on a great track event. Were you running r-compounds?

My student in green group had r-compunds, not what i would consider a great first mod, it makes you faster, but not better. But he did really well and was tearing up the green group! Nice job Conrad

 

Great vids thanks for sharing!

 

have your raised your rev limiter? It sounds like you're ringing it up there.

 

Great job Mike

 

Nice vid mike, how fast did you get up to on that track?

 

Eric1 I wish I had a video of the whole event. Remeber I had the same traffic, at the end we had two laps to each other it was obvious that I was faster threw the course while the straight he would pull an easy 15 car lenghts and I would quickly make up the 10 car lenghts threw just the Nascar turns. I was on victoracers, so better than street but not a great road race tire for a 3400lb car w/ driver. So yeah I would say I ran him down since he never shook me off.

daveh, all stock ecu, stock motor (except intake-exhaust-flywheel), stock lsd and gears. All suspension (wish I had installed the T2 springs).


mc350z, I would enter turn one about 105- 108 then wait for the suspension to uncompress to accelerate threw the corner and exit around 130 area.

Thanks Mike, we will have to sign up for VIR. All lot of the guys who came down for the bachelore party at Reobling should be there. And I will have my covered trailer by then as well. Now just need something larger to pull with.

southern_info, maybe 135-140 on the after turn one Nascar.

 

Good job Mike,(so is this whats called autocrossing???.. j/k, lol.)
I'm glad you have your Chase Bullit-Cam up and running! I just wish you had a lot more footage.
I'll have to tell Jim S. to lay his eyes on your videos as he has gotten bit by the tack bug, as well as our other TZCC members.

 

LOL Mike... Eric1h IS the driver of the Viper

Yup... sold out to the ram I guess (hmm, I probably shouldn't say anything though huh eric? )

Registration for VIR Full is already open... www.motorsportreg.com Hope to see more of you there!!

 

Very SWEET, Thanks, I really enjoyed watching.

 

Haha thats funny. I guess its time for a roll bar so I can run in the time trials in Feb.