Renting Track for a day..
05-23-2006, 07:45 AM
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hell yeah, i cant wait. my hoosiers came in yest. and i will drop them off to get mounted today. i was going to buy some lightweight 18s to throw them on but i think i have too much crap at my house already. time to do some cleaning out. after going through those corners in NC on crappy tires. pulling >.84 Gs through some corners, i am ready!!!! i am thinking i could pull close to 1.2s with some good tires. i will see. our cars just stick to the ground through corners with minimal roll.....
05-23-2006, 08:41 AM
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You are close on your guess, I was hitting 140 mph at the end of the striaght.
Originally Posted by beddow
Glad to here you both had a great time!Roebling Road is a great track and no one should ever pass up an opportunity to go there if they enjoy road racing.The front straight coming out of that fast final turn (can't remember how many turns 12-13 I think) will really put your brakes to the test entering turn 1.MoodDude must have been seeing around 135mph at the end of that straight.Me and Jeremy went up to the Zdayz at the Dragon over the weekend so we were in some twisties as well but slow traffic stinks I only had a few times to run some corners pretty hard but within safe limits.I'm looking forward to June 3rd guy's it has come around rather quickly.
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05-23-2006, 11:10 AM
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I was in the mid 120's. That straight isn't the fun part. That's where I relax, shake out my hands, look around, breathe, make sure the gauges are good, etc. Going into Turn 1 at 90+, passing on turn 3, and going into turn 4 at 70+ is the real deal. They have another Roebling event in September with NASA. You should go.
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05-23-2006, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by TrackHoRX8
I was in the mid 120's. That straight isn't the fun part. That's where I relax, shake out my hands, look around, breathe, make sure the gauges are good, etc. Going into Turn 1 at 90+, passing on turn 3, and going into turn 4 at 70+ is the real deal. They have another Roebling event in September with NASA. You should go.
05-23-2006, 01:03 PM
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Yes, it's a C5. He was coming out of the last turn onto the straight and lost the rear end. Instead of just driving off track to the field, he tried to catch it and it put him head first into the wall on the right of the straight. He walked away and was physically fine. A 944 also got into a situation during a race in heavy traffic, locked up tires, went off track and flipped it. He was also ok. That was a fully raceprepped race car though.
I'm running Kuhmo V710's on a fully stock RX-8. The green 08 RX-8 in the last picture.
I'm sure people will be able to come watch. I will ask if they will let me ride with a few people to show them the line and talk them through the track to teach as much as possible.
I'm running Kuhmo V710's on a fully stock RX-8. The green 08 RX-8 in the last picture.
I'm sure people will be able to come watch. I will ask if they will let me ride with a few people to show them the line and talk them through the track to teach as much as possible.
05-23-2006, 03:14 PM
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Only 10 more days before we hit the Track!
Long range forcast calls for 89/69 and Scattered T-Storms.
My Tires - Cup's, and my car is the black Z in the picture above passing every Porsche's and BMW's a@@ that weekend, even the Porsche Turbo's!
Long range forcast calls for 89/69 and Scattered T-Storms.
My Tires - Cup's, and my car is the black Z in the picture above passing every Porsche's and BMW's a@@ that weekend, even the Porsche Turbo's!
05-23-2006, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by cj350
Are friends allowed to come and watch this event??? I would like to have a few friends take video ad pics while I am on the track
05-23-2006, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by TrackHoRX8
Yes, it's a C5. He was coming out of the last turn onto the straight and lost the rear end. Instead of just driving off track to the field, he tried to catch it and it put him head first into the wall on the right of the straight. He walked away and was physically fine. A 944 also got into a situation during a race in heavy traffic, locked up tires, went off track and flipped it. He was also ok. That was a fully raceprepped race car though.
I'm running Kuhmo V710's on a fully stock RX-8. The green 08 RX-8 in the last picture.
I'm sure people will be able to come watch. I will ask if they will let me ride with a few people to show them the line and talk them through the track to teach as much as possible.
I'm running Kuhmo V710's on a fully stock RX-8. The green 08 RX-8 in the last picture.
I'm sure people will be able to come watch. I will ask if they will let me ride with a few people to show them the line and talk them through the track to teach as much as possible.
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05-23-2006, 08:44 PM
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Since it isn't too long of a track, we can also walk it during a break or lunch and we can talk about each other's lines, set up, and track out. There are different lines for horsepower cars and momentum cars. I bet we'll learn a heck of a lot just from that talk.
05-24-2006, 03:33 PM
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Hey guys, Levent's friend and mine that races, Jeff Gordon (not the famous NASCAR Racer, but he races the same cars) said that he actually has a race 28 miles away from us on the night of June 3rd. I will probably go over to watch him if any of you guys are interested. I will also try to talk him about coming over to our track first and helping people with questions and have him look at the tire temps people are running.
Question - does anyone have a canopy or something to create some shade during the event? We really will need it to cool off between each session!
Question - does anyone have a canopy or something to create some shade during the event? We really will need it to cool off between each session!