So... What's the deal? 8/22/16 official TCG twistie day?

[SinisterSHO]

Yes I sure as hell do! I'm scared to hell of this thing at the rate I'm driving it right there!

I do not even come close to using even close to what the car has in braking potential.

I was just talking about this with my buddy over the weekend. We have similar setups on our SHOs, mine is a little lighter and he's a little more experienced. He is far more confident in his tires than I am (we both run r compounds) but I am far more confident in my brakes. He ends up having more speed thru the turns, but I go deeper (that's what she said) in the turns.

You have a PR vid I could watch on ABCC full? Any feedback on my lines?

I'll watch it again when I haven't been drinking and I do have a video I'll see if I can upload. I would say the biggest thing I had to learn in to use the whole track. When you come out of a turn, you should go as far out as possible. You basically want to make the track as much of a straight line as you can.

From what i watched, I would just stay in the throttle longer. I don't have enough experience to not push the car or myself as hard as I want. Very few turns at a few tracks will I coast. Full throttle in the straights, squeeze brakes, part throttle thru turns. You could still brake at the 4 or 5 marker, but accelerating to the turn will help you get more confident in your brakes.

 

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Deng, those are good laps for beginner with an instructor though.

 

[sickmint79]

lol it's silly how i'm watching you take like turns casually at the same speeds i'm like fighting through, or how easily and quickly you get to 100 and more on the straight when i'm fighting to just break into triple digits

 

[sickmint79]

this is jeff kumler's lines, green m3 there often:

 

[Eagle]

lol it's silly how i'm watching you take like turns casually at the same speeds i'm like fighting through, or how easily and quickly you get to 100 and more on the straight when i'm fighting to just break into triple digits

The Z is insanely capable at ABCC and it'd be even better with a serious set of tires mounted. The Pilot Sports can only handle so much, but they do pretty decent once they're warm.

As for coasting in the turns, you can hear the tires are basically silent in many of the turns I make in my PR video... so you know I'm not pushing the car at all. Its got so much more in it as it sits that I just can't tap because I'm fearful of fucking up and sending it off track.

 

[sickmint79]

this is old and i'm a little faster now, i'm not sure i even hit 100 in this vid though in the same places you are getting to it like a joke. fastest not that fast lap of this session at 12m5s

 

[SinisterSHO]

The Z is insanely capable at ABCC and it'd be even better with a serious set of tires mounted. The Pilot Sports can only handle so much, but they do pretty decent once they're warm.

As for coasting in the turns, you can hear the tires are basically silent in many of the turns I make in my PR video... so you know I'm not pushing the car at all. Its got so much more in it as it sits that I just can't tap because I'm fearful of fucking up and sending it off track.

Can't say I would drive that car as well as my SHO, due to the value alone.

 

[Intel]

The Z is insanely capable at ABCC and it'd be even better with a serious set of tires mounted. The Pilot Sports can only handle so much, but they do pretty decent once they're warm.

As for coasting in the turns, you can hear the tires are basically silent in many of the turns... so you know I'm not pushing the car at all. Its got so much more in it as it sits that I just can't tap because I'm fearful of fucking up and sending it off track.

I was going to say I am taking at least 2-3 of those turns 5-10 mph faster in my 3 but I sort of have to as I have 20 percent of your hp. I also have like 1/10th the money into it if I do something dumb.

There are other people with way more experience but I would just try picking 1-2 turns to improve on each session. Just realize once you start doing better at them they will alter your other turns as you will end up carrying more speed into them.

I am on Bridgestone Sport 760's 380tw so they are basically screaming through most every corner no matter what I do. I am going to keep on running them as so far they point out very quickly when I am driving like an ass and grease up and lose traction. Once I cleaned up my lines they gripped a lot longer and didn't get as greasy. RS-2's will replace them sometime soon.

Have a set of mazdaspeed3 brake calipers/rotors sitting on the bench I snagged at the junkyard just trying to decide if I should change them or not before this. The EBC yellows on stock calipers ran fine just don't like the feel of them. Lot more pad choices for the Mazdaspeed3.

I really need to update the "build" thread for it for the 3 people who will read it

 

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That will come with time, I was scared one time about that too. If you saw how crazy I was driving at WMHM for the .02 I needed to get first in my class you'd see my lack of regard of human life. I had NFG.

 

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That ^^^ reply was way late

 

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Where the f*ck is [MENTION=750]RICH17[/MENTION] and that vagina [MENTION=239]Turk[/MENTION]

 

[sickmint79]

[MENTION=1180]blueoval4life[/MENTION] bring out dat fist
[MENTION=3307]IceCreamAssassin[/MENTION] bring out dat brz, couple others already there

 

[SinisterSHO]

That will come with time, I was scared one time about that too. If you saw how crazy I was driving at WMHM for the .02 I needed to get first in my class you'd see my lack of regard of human life. I had NFG.

I was doing this in 2010 at Waterford hills trying to catch my buddy. People watching pointed it out to me afterwards, too.

 

[Diavolo]

Do you have to have any experience to do this? I'd love to take the 335 out but have never been to a track before that wasn't straight.

 

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If you sign up in beginner you'll have an instructor and everything to get you out there and learning.

 

[syP]

Do you have to have any experience to do this? I'd love to take the 335 out but have never been to a track before that wasn't straight.

do what I did.. when that "extreme experience" comes back to the Autobahn, sign up for it.

I learned on a 458 Italia, instructor let me go full dick after he saw me do one lap and was competent. Passed a GTR on one of the straights when we "werent technically supposed to"

I chuckled.

 

[bimmer4life]

@blueoval4life bring out dat fist
@IceCreamAssassin bring out dat brz, couple others already there

I am seriously thinking about it. Checking to see if I can make the dates work.

 

[Eagle]

It's an amazingly good time. Can't even explain it unless you've experienced it before.

 

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I'm super pumped with how much interest we have on TCG!

 

[chris101]

Surprisingly enough we don't have much video of ABCC Full but here is what I could find (sorry its 5 years old):

 

[Eagle]

So in watching other's lines, I can see that my last instructor didn't give me the best advice in all turns.

I had used different lines, similar to what are in folks videos here, and he changed them up on me.

Either way, I think I have a decent nose for what good lines are. I just hope that I have enough awareness to deal with any extra speed that I might have without a passenger and hopefully less traffic on the track with me in intermediate.

 

[RICH17]

Who's got a set of 16 tires cheap?

 

[chris101]

^ why do you need 16 tires for 1 track day?

 

[Yaj Yak]

(16")

 

[chris101]

So in watching other's lines, I can see that my last instructor didn't give me the best advice in all turns.

I had used different lines, similar to what are in folks videos here, and he changed them up on me.

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Who was your last instructor and was this person a BMW Driver by chance?