DJM Posted 27September, 2015 Report Share Posted 27September, 2015 driver dynamics track day today. Car ran perfectly all day. Video below is early in the day still finding braking points and right gear. Great day, left mid afternoon after 5 sessions. JimTT was there with a bunch of guys in Lambos, Maclaren 650S, M4 etc. also a 996 GT3, a couple of 991s, 997 Turco, Cayman S & GTS. I got to chase Maclaren and Lambo during passenger laps, they both had enough mumbo to out drag me down the straight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue964 Posted 27September, 2015 Report Share Posted 27September, 2015 love the in car video...very cool. you know how to drive that gt2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9er Posted 28September, 2015 Report Share Posted 28September, 2015 Good to see it up and running well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DS911 Posted 28September, 2015 Report Share Posted 28September, 2015 That's a good lap - you obviously know how to get around that circuit.I was at the Driver Dynamics day on the 19th of Sep but was the only Porsche there. The one this weekend looks like a very good collection of cars.Thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Posted 28September, 2015 Author Report Share Posted 28September, 2015 Thanks for the compliments. I took an instructor out in one session. The key learning was to brake later and MUCH HARDER which is hard to train your brain to do. Need big coconuts to do that consistently, charging into the kink at the end of the back straight at 230+ Is hairy enough without staying flat for longer and braking later.My best was a 1:21. Fast enough for me but I see peter Fitzgerald did 1:14 (!) at PCV Sandown recently in a clients 997 GT2 (which I believe has over 700hp). Given V8 Supercars are 1:09 or so that's incredible for a road car. No doubt ny car can go several seconds faster in the right hands.Great fun though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poli84 Posted 29September, 2015 Report Share Posted 29September, 2015 Great video, looks like you had fun.I'm keen to get back on the track and take my 964 out for the first time. If anyone plans on doing another Driver Dynamics soon, let me know and i'd love to join. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Posted 29September, 2015 Author Report Share Posted 29September, 2015 There's a combined cars & coffee and driver dynamics track day at Sandown coming up - could be very cool but it's on 20 December which is not ideal as I assume, like me, most people are pretty hectic at that time of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DS911 Posted 29September, 2015 Report Share Posted 29September, 2015 There's one on Nov 28 that I'll be going to. Would be great to see some other Porsche's there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Posted 30October, 2015 Author Report Share Posted 30October, 2015 Maserati club track day. Perfect sunny conditions. Plenty of track time due to low entries.car ran perfectly again but is down a bit on boost so speeds were much less than last time out. Eg. 240 vs 265 main straight, 1:49-1:50 is best I could do compared to 1:47 last time in my first tentative venture on track in the GT2. Need to get Fitzgerald to turn up the wick....Audi brought 2 brand new R8 LMS race cars in 2 B double transporters and I found myself driving around looking in the mirrors for Garth Tander and other pro drivers appearing out of nowhere and blasting past. Shame the phone ran out of battery so I didn't get video. Just awesome. Cars were having their first shakedown in preparation for Bathurst 12 hour (Lowndes and Tamder will be driving apparently). The crew reckon they can do mid 1:20s..... Also a Ferrari 458 GT3 doing 1.33s. Chased a 458 Speciale and he was jusssst faster, happy with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1q2w3e4r Posted 30October, 2015 Report Share Posted 30October, 2015 Looks like great fun! The Racelogics are good huh, is that what allows the superimposing over the video? So it uses the GPS location and speed i take it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Posted 30October, 2015 Author Report Share Posted 30October, 2015 I downloaded Harry's lap timer, $24.99 from App Store. Camzilla mount on the roll cage for iPhone 6 and use Harry's to record video & data. It uses the iPhone GPS to collect data and then it's a simple exercise, click a button to overlay data on the video. Couldn't be simpler or cheaper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Posted 30October, 2015 Author Report Share Posted 30October, 2015 Pretty daunting when a pro driver is closing fast in one of these slick shod aero monsters....! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted 30October, 2015 Report Share Posted 30October, 2015 That R8 is insane .................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Posted 30October, 2015 Author Report Share Posted 30October, 2015 Garth Tander looking on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Posted 31October, 2015 Author Report Share Posted 31October, 2015 maclaren with no. Plates LOL458....Perfection mark 1 Escort. with 285hp cosworth BDG on ITBs in 840kg chassis. Where's trev mcrev? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tit Posted 31October, 2015 Report Share Posted 31October, 2015 Yum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
333pg333 Posted 1July, 2016 Report Share Posted 1July, 2016 Nice going and looks like you're getting a good handle on a big heavy fast car. What tyres are you on? Surprised they don't enforce gloves?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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