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Old 06-13-2009, 06:37 PM
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Good luck with the run John. Try to get some video footage of it if you can. I'm sure I'm nott the only one who would love to see that.
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Thanks, The Sebring deal is mostly to get accustomed to all the new stuff (and I always wanted to run there!) so I'm going to start slow and work my way up a little at a time. We get 4 - 25 minute sessions per day on track and I signed up for 2 days so thats almost 4 hours on track. 3.7 miles is long so it'll take a while to get comfortable with the track.

I finally just bought a Go Pro video camera and rollbar mount. I'm going to try to test it during the week and if all goes well I'll try it on track. The only video I've ever had is a really short clip a buddy took at Road Atlanta several years ago. Here it is

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Old 06-13-2009, 10:11 PM
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The car looked good from what little I saw. Now we need full laps. MANY full laps .
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Old 06-23-2009, 08:31 PM
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The tech inspectors at the Sebring event were impressed with all the safety stuff while still retaining a somewhat stock dash, rear seat etc. Passed tech with flying colors!

Car ran well all weekend. Only problem was the belts shifted in one of the front tires at the end of my 3rd session on Sat and caused a bulge in one of the tires. I'd previously hit a square edge in a highway work zone really hard and that was right where the bulge was. So I guess once the tires got some serious track heat in them the belts shifted. I got new front tires at a local tire shop in town Sun morning and was back on track for the rest of the day. I got checked out and moved up into a higher group so now I can run solo! The lack of a 200 lb instructor almost makes up for the additional weight of the cage.

I go alone so I don't have any pics of the car on track, just ones I took in the pits. If I can figure out the you tube thing I'll post a vid from the go-pro. Here's a link to the pics I took this weekend http://s240.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Sebring%2009/

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Old 08-31-2009, 09:49 AM
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WOW - Aweseome work.
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Wow turned out great!
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This thing is awesome. Let me know when you bring it up to Barber Motorsports Park so I can check it out up close and personal like .

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