Let me tell you guys... Ataru074 was King of MSR on Saturday. He made that track his bish his second lap!!! LOL

 

Sweet! Wish I had the cojones to take my Nismo on the track, but not without insurance. Don't want to pay on a potential heap of bent metal for the next few years. I'm thinking Autocross though might be more my speed and risk level. That's for sharing more laps, always inspiring!

What are you using for your telemetry?

 

nice driving

 

I'm using a performance box ( the cheap brother of the drift box)

 

You have way more of a chance screwing up your NISMO on the street around other cars than on the track.

 

+1!!! Plus when you attend a HPDE event you learn your driving limits. Cause I promise you'll never reach the car's limits.

 

I have to quote solo and Robert.
on the track you have 4 kind of risk factor:

1) yourself and your ego. this one is the MOST DANGEROUS one. being overconfident is the most stupid thing to do on a race track. there are really few odds you'll be the next F1 world champion... but decently quick lap times will come if you spend enough time on the track using your head. but know this from the beginning. you don't have any idea about how to drive. PERIOD. it's like having sex, exactly the same way. no matter how many xxx movies you have seen and how many times you played with yourself... isn't the same thing. experience makes a lot of difference. and even if you have some sort of talent... you need to work hard to have results.
2) overlooking on the maintenance of the car. everything happens faster there and with more stress for the car. a little noise from a wheel bearing on the street could become a catastrophic failure on the track... a lightly stripped wheel stud or bolt that is fine on the road is dangerous on the track... and so on. if you "feel" something is wrong.. probably it is.
3) stress, dehidratation and concentration: drink a lot.. chill out.. and when on the track watch the damn corner station and the flags. isn't an option. those guys might be trying to tell you if there is something wrong / dangerous on the track (and that could be even yourself)
4) **** happens.

 

 

Nice one Ataru074!



What pads were you running btw?

 

ferodo DS3000.
they had 2 days at TWS... and about .1" of total wear... I obliterated the front ones in 7 sessions.

looks like MSR is "quite" hard on brakes.

btw. my rotor temp after a hot session and one 3 minutes cool down lap was about 270F. no fading at all.

 

Is anyone running Hawk pads? Thats what I run on the racecar with no fade issues at all. Rotor temps get hot.. Never temped them after the race but they tend to glow red after about 45-50 laps and stay that was for the rest of the race 150-200 laps.

 

FWIK some people use the hawk DT "something" and the blue...
I'm on street tires and I really like the DS3000.
I'll probably switch to some carbotech xp12 as I'll go for R compounds.

 

I'd like to hear your review on carbotechs. I've been really happy with the PFC01's, and right now I'm trying the new PFC06's (happy so far). You might check them out.

 

Totally agree, but that's why you have car insurance. On the track when $hit happens, that's on your tab (unless you have track insurance).

 

where did you get the PFC06's ?

 

http://store.zeckhausen.com/catalog/ Where I get all my pads.

 

holy smoke... quite expensive. O_o

 

Wow, that's some awesome driving. Love the drive by vids.