I plead the fifth. I mean I drank a fifth. Nevermind. :happy23:





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That's what I like to see! One guy lying, and the other one swearing to it!

Definitely not smoother.......quite bumpy regardless how it may look in the pic....but definitely pics up your times.

Obviously you're not going fast enough.......:D

Actually its more obvious that you went around the cone. :sieg:

Old Auto-X habits are hard to break. :D

Going around cones is just one technique...

:tiptoe:


:D

:relax:

Bill Howell has always called me "coney"....


Oh yeah --- I've chased a few of 'em.



RE: Pic of me on "wrong" side of exit marking cone



I'm a long time skier.... My #1 rule is "don't fall down".... I find that I never get hurt if I don't fall down.... with that in mind -- I have been known to make what I refer to as a "Series of linked recoveries".

My driving style has evolved to include this same kind of thinking.... "whatever it takes" -- comes to mind. Meaning -- whatever it takes to not have Charley chewing my ass....

Guys,

I was talking to my Porsche-racing boss today about this event, and he asked me which configuration of the track you drove. Apparently there is an optional turn, which I think he said has an elevation drop to it. He's run 2:05's there, but through that turn which I think he said slows the lap times down a bit...

Just curious for comparison.

Bryan ---


"WE" run the 16 turn config -- 2.866 mile -- with "the cyclone" which is T5/T5A -- which is the elevation he's referring to.


The other track config is called "the by-pass" -- where you by-pass the cyclone....


I've heard various times (additional time) added when ruining the cyclone vs the by-pass.... anywhere from 2 to 3 seconds.

My "best time" a couple weeks ago of 2.08 is running the cyclone...

What P-Car does he run?

Yep, that's what he called it. I couldn't recall since I haven't been there.

He was impressed with the times I was mentioning from this thread, but since I wasn't sure of the course, it was hard to compare. I can brag on you guys more now. ;)

He has a green Boxster. He's been running with the PCA for years as I understand it, and he ran a 944 before that. If I recall correctly, he won the PCA Boxster division 2 or 3 years ago before he moved to Austin.

He's building a pretty cool Cayman right now. It's taken way longer than it should have, but it will be pretty slick once it's done. He's acquired some sponsorship for the car as well. While I know nothing about the Porsche world, from what he's telling me, they are doing some pretty slick and unusual work on this car.

Fast or not, you lost me at Boxster. :lol:

Ha! Yeah, not a fan either. The Cayman will be much cooler. ;)

Aren't they just like Miata's??




I'm sorry...



The Cayman -- now that's a cool car -- and frankly -- I think I'd rather have one of them than the 911....

One of 'em (full race prep) kicked my butt at an event I ran the Audi R8 in. I could not catch that little sucker!

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

Greg, could you ever get that R8 to power slide through a turn? or was there just too much traction? I'd love to try that car our (but i'm still a huge Pcar fan)(and yes i saw your tires after you ran it one/two years back)

Yes you could get it to oversteer - but you really had to toss it and then stab the juice.... then with the all wheel drive -- you just punched it and it would pull straight out of a corner. Amazing handling - but BORING as all get out to drive. Everything worked too well. I got it to understeer once -- then you just slammed the gas down hard and dialed in more turn... and the front end pulled right out of it. Just stupid easy to drive.

Car would have been fun to gut it out = cage it - take all the smog crap off - make it all loud.... but for that kind of money I can have 4 cars like I have... so why bother.

As Bad Ron says, GTFO. No way you would choose a GT3/GT3RS over a Cayman.

Agreed the Cayman is an improvement over the Boxster.

I was trying to be nice!

its just a boxster hard top. Them GT's are bad ass

Greg ... we need a new thread on "Sonoma Aug 2-3". :)

If you want to watch a guy haul some ass on Thunderhill -- and especially T6 thru T9 --- watch this guy.

There's a bunch of dead video while he sits in the pits and some more while under yellow caution -- so just skip ahead a few minutes... Patch this video into your 63" big screen -- crank the sound up and watch some driving... Yippppeeeee

A Cayman-S is plenty bad-a$$ for most folks.

A driver friend of mine told me once that if you can be fast in a 911 you can be fast in anything.