So a bunch of us rent out Dunnville Autodrome every few weeks / approx once a month or so during the summer. For those who haven't heard of it, it's in Southern Ontario, Canada and is described on trackpedia as "A compact technical track inside an airfield 10 turns in 2.2kms or 1.375 miles."



I'd actually never timed my car there before as I just go up for the fun of it and to test the car (that's where I discovered the Crank Position sensor had backed out after the engine swap, doh) but I figured, why not During our "practice" sessions earlier I actually ran an even better time, 1:12.8 WITH TRAFFIC but my tires were nearly done by the end of the day when we were officially timing (ricer excuse, I know lol).

This last event we did a somewhat informal "Time Trial" (but with a track that short and our timing system's software we limited it to one car on at a time). Format was warmup-lap around the outside, flying start, 2 hot laps, cooldown - we ran the track in the more technical clockwise direction.

Anyway, I took first and am quite proud of that - even beat an Audi R8 driven by Bill Comat who's an instructor for UCR PCA and won the last weekend's NASA GTS1 (and took 2nd in 944 Cup too).

Here's the results and a few pics:

Waiting to start:



Took one of the firefighters out who'd never been on track at speed:



Back on the throttle for T1:



Mmmm R8, so sexy:


Later, after the timing was over Mike and I did the "AP1 v AP2 Challenge" - he beat me by almost a second in the AP2 but what I was happy about was that my times were within 1/100th between the two cars despite alignment and tire differences... 1:17.6-7 (street tires / both cars bone stock). I felt much more comfortable in the AP2 with the UK-Spec alignment vs the AP1, which kept trying to kill me lol - even though the AP2 had far worse tires - and I liked the higher redline in the AP1 despite its relative lack of torque.


Catching Mike in T4-5:


Passing Mike after Carousel:


Don't laugh too hard at my result in my buddy's M5 haha, I took it out for fun at the end and messed up the downshift to 3rd BADLY and locked the rears, it wasn't as disastrous as it looked, I kept it (barely) on track... and yes, I NEED A NEW BUMPER, sigh...

 

damn... you're one hell of a driver to beat an R8 with someone that know's what they're doing behind the wheel!

what do you have done to your Z?

 

Exceptional driving!

 

Thanks guys! The Z is nicely setup, namely DA Konis, 350evo a-arms, good alignment (at least to my butt-g-meter), 265 Pilot Sport Cups, and basically a stock engine with breathing mods. Nothing over the top, in fact I keep taking mods OFF and finding more speed because its less to think/worry about

 

Dave is that with our old motor? Congratulations. I think everyone has crank sensor problems at one time or another. Looks like a fun track, would be a blast with a kart.

 

Yup that's your old motor, I still need to get it re-tuned since I'm on a crappy technosquare flash. We're gonna do some formula dodges up there either end of this year / early next, I agree it'd be fun in karts