Just got back from the HPDE at PMI today. For those of you who were there, you know how wonderful the day was. David and his team put on a great set of exercises in the morning, followed by "follow the leader" to learn the line, followed by progressively faster sessions, finished with 2 hours of open track. Wow, a really full and fulfilling day!

http://media.putfile.com/240Z-at-Pueblo-Motorsports

Here are 2 laps from inside my car. Sorry, forgot to roll the window up so there's a lot of wind noise at the end of the straight. For those interested, I saw a little over 110 before hitting the brakes. (I'm not sure why the image is so wide, try right-clicking and choose zoom\full screen to fix that.)

For those of you who didn't come, you missed a really special day. Hard to believe it was November in Colorado! Hope you can make the next one...

BTW, this is my first in-car video. It looked a lot faster from behind the wheel

Daniel
'73 240Z

 

Nice, I miss Colorado.

A 240Z passing a 350Z, ahhhhhhh!

 

I'll have to watch it tomorrow. Off to work. Wish I could've been there.

 

Thanks Daniel for the video. Also thanks for the heal-toe tips. I've been trying it and downshifting/upshifting at varies speed. So far the car doesn't jerk but the footwork isn't as smooth as I would like.

 

Great video Daniel! Watching it made me think of following several cars during the day and observing their line. Turning in just a little early or carrying just a smidge too much speed into a turn will cause you to miss the apex of a turn. Luckily, Z cars (of all vintage) handle so well that they can recover easily. You were certainly driving well and your video shows some of the ebb and flow of PMI. But it's always interesting to note how things like elevation changes or the perception of acceleration can never be accurately portrayed through a television or video screen! I guess you had to be there to appreciate it all...and I'm glad you were!

 

Damn, that looked like a nice day!!! I'm jealous. And for sure, video seems to make it seem alot slower, atleast we can hear the engine!

 

Wow! that 240 sound nice! Great Vid!

 

Yeah, that was my car with my wife driving, I remember that lap (she ran wide coming out of the hairpin (turn 7). Sweet video, wish you had a lap of me in front of you!

 

I'll vouch for that! I did a ride-along with Daniel and that 240 is no slouch!

Joel

 

Thanks Joel, I know I said it earlier, but it was really fun to mix the old and the new!

 

Great video! PMI looks much more entertaining than my local track (Sandia Motorsports - Albuquerque, NM). I wish I could have joined you guys. I'll definitely be at the next one.

 

With all due respect to Sandia Motorsports Park (where I still hold a lap record), PMI is much longer and has a higher overall speed. I like the variety of the course (ie. LONG straight followed by that slightly banked high speed turn 1, fast sweepers leading to a hairpin and lots of elevation changes) over the 2.2 mile layout. It also features very generous runoff areas in most turns (believe me when I say I've visited most of them at one time or another). I wouldn't want to risk that at Sandia!

 

I can make any track look exciting. ;-)

 

Awesome videos! Hopefully watching these will help me to make it through the long offseason. Post all you can...I'll watch 'em!

 

you're lucky, for some reason my work and home computer wont show the putfile.

 

bamyi, send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you a link where you can d/l the files directly.