The only time I have seen mercedes out there was when a few came by on their way out for a drive. The mercedes club wants you to get a membership to join their track days, but the key is that it's a multiclub track day. As long as you're a member of any of the local clubs you don't need a mercedes membership. I doubt they even check that you're a member. Bob will collect the money for the sessions anyway, whatever will help pay for the day for the multi car club rental, it's all the same.

 

I would be up for crashing the Mercedes club event. It would be great to have one more time out, providing the weather cooperates.

 

David,
The Z is in the shop today . Nissan is looking over my tranny problem. Depending on what they say or do I would definitely be interested. I had a great time on Saturday in spite of the tranny issue. I improved my line in several spots, including turn 3, turn 8/9 and the house turn. Too bad the place is closing just when I'm getting it dialed in. A last last hurrah would be fun.
Yes, I think crashing the Merc day with 6 - 10 Z's would be good.

 

Check this gif someone made for my sig.

http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images...rrelslides.gif

 

Darrel-

I saw that "off" and the GIF doesn't show how far you drove off course! In my estimation, you went off near the top on T1 and almost drove in the weeds to the start of T2! Keep those tires on the black stuff...

 

Yes, I was pretty far off course. I could have tried to keep it on the black top, but I knew the G was right behind me and didn't want to do a 180 right in front of him. So I continued in the weeds untill I knew the track was clear to get back out.

If you look at the gif, there are a couple of pics added at the beginning. Check the trees. The actual sequence starts just as I kicked up the dirt.

zluster/sam did a great job taking all the pics. Unlike the z club, that never posts pics on the web site.

 

Anyone going to take in the last couple of days at 2nd creek Oct 29 and 30th? Multi car club has it, but is pretty much open for all the local clubs.

 

Darrel- I'm planning on going to one last day at SCR on Saturday the 29th. Of course, we'll have to see what the weather does and if it's crazy crowded. Is there any place to sign up in advance, or is it FCFS?

 

Judging from past multi car club days, over crowding wasn't an issue. But since it is the last weekend for 2nd creek that might change. I can probably call Bob to get contact info for the person running the event. I'm not sure if it will be open to motorcycles or not either.

I might have someone coming in from albqq as well. He didn't make the dealership track day. Art knows him.

 

I'm interested in SCR on the 29th, as well. Darrel - keep us posted on what the sign-up procedures are.

 

I'll still have weekends off, count me in if this happens.
Will

 

Bad news, I talked to the 2nd creek track manager. The schedule shown on the 2nd creek web site is wrong. There is a mini truck race event scheduled for the 29th and 30th.

 

Darrel- Does this mean that the multicar club event is planned for another weekend? Or is anybody else up for just taking a weekday and paying the rental fee?

We've gotta do it before the end of October!

 

What about that date that the Mercedes club had 2nd Creek booked and we were talking of crashing that event. Is that still happening?

Mudd

 

The mulit car club is the mercedes club. The schedule is wrong. This weekend it's the scca solo trials, next weekend the porshe club has it for both days. The 29th and 30th the mini trucks are there. There might be an open track day next friday. The porsche club rarely has anyone coming in early for their events. I can check with Bob for that day.

 

On another note. The news we have all been waiting for. http://www.camplaps.org/


more news same web page I didn't see it earlier.

http://www.camplaps.org/News.asp

I thought this was a new article, but it was written the week of the denver grand prix. So I guess we're not sure if it is a sure thing or not.

 

Today was a good day at SCR- both Resolute and I had good runs on the way to second places in B Stock and B Stock Prepared, respectively. The first day of the Colorado Time Trials National saw us running the track in the counter-clockwise configuration. In that particular layout, my favorite section was racing up the front straight to 'The Boot' section; with heavy braking from 90+ MPH and a heel and toe downshift to second gear. From there you could rotate the Z through a double apex turn and squeeze on the power as the car literally flew down the exit! I think the clockwise configuration is a bit quicker, from a lap time perspective, but we'll see after Sunday's event. I won't be able to make it, but Will is hard onto the throttle. After his consistent runs today, I'm sure he'll represent the marque well.

 

I came in second both days. I ran a 1'22".333 clockwise on Sunday. The RX-8 ran a 1'20".363 on Sunday, exactly 2 seconds too slow. The R-compounds made my lack of a LSD very well known, and I peglegged every time coming out of Spectator. All in all though, I was pleased with my time. Maybe with some wider V710's, a LSD, some Koni yellows, a cat back, and a tweaked suspension alignment to pull as much negative camber as possible- basically all the mods the RX-8 had- and I can be competitive next year
Dave you missed the drama on Sunday, one car caught fire and another is totalled. It was a crazy day at the track for sure. A Miata had a power steering fluid leak that was smoking up a storm when it got blown on the exhaust, so the driver was black flagged off the racing line to prevent it from getting too slippery. Instead, she went off course and caught the dry grass on fire. It was put out without major damage. The last heat of the day, a driver got too much power on in his Z06, and was also coming too fast into turn one. He apparently oversteered his car to get back on line, but then panicked and let off the throttle and instantly snap-steered around and off the track into a concrete barrier. The ambulance picked him up and his car was towed. Two wheels were snapped off at the hup, and his car was ruined. The impact was hard enough to move the concrete barricade. He was reported to be fine and unhurt at the drivers meeting. What a way to send the track out.
Will

 

Oops! Sorry to hear about the flames and carnage on Sunday. Here I was thinking that the Time Trials program got away from any big shunts over the past three years. Did the Z06 pilot go into the runoffs area at the end of the main straight? I can't think of any areas near T1 where a concrete barrier would be in direct line of contact with a spinning car.

On a separate note- you did very well on both days of the National Time Trial weekend. Your Z kept a veteran driver in a developed car honest. You also learned how to focus on turning clean, fast laps in a competitive environment. Good work!

 

Thanks for the compliments.
The vette came into turn one too hot off the front straight and began to understeer. He then poured the power on in mid turn, while on the brakes still, and got the back end to come around, and might have been ok- but on the exit of the turn he was set up in a pretty nice drift, and rather than being smooth and letting the back end settle down, possibly just fishtailing onto the back straight, he instead let off the gas abruptly and instantly had the rear snap around. You could see the weight transfer to the front as soon as he did it and he lost what little control he had left. The vette snapped around and went off backwards at the end of turn one towards the divider between the front and back straights, and right next to spectator. He spun into the wall right next to spectator and moved that barricade. One minute he was drifting it, the next he was spining it, if you blinked you would have missed it. Thankfully, he was ok.
They were worried about Kamikaze, so they coned it reduce speeds through there by eliminating several feet of track on each apex. This forced darn near everyone to have to brake coming into Kamikaze rather than going flat out, but nobody expected a wreck at turn one.
Will