On Friday we went to the Mosport GP circuit for a lapping day event. Passing was only allowed when you were waved or signaled and only on the front straight, between three and four and on the back straight.
There were two groups of 26 cars with the first group being Novice/Experienced and the other being Advanced. We were in the first group. The mix of cars was interesting and included a Ford GT, GT350R race car, Shelby Cobra replica, Lambo Gallardo, Nissan GTR and a Jeep STR8. Don't laugh about the Jeep it was well driven and pretty fast.
Here is the URL for the event
http://www.frankewald.com/
My car was set up with the KDWs at 40 psi hot and the Tokico's at full hard. It ran like a charm. Driving was shared between myself, 8th track day and third at Mosport GP, and my brother, 4th track day in my car but with thousands of laps at Mosport, mainly in Porsches.
Here is the video/data view of my best lap (data logger got confused and segment time is my lap time)
Here is the description of the funny diagram on the left - "Qview™ is an innovative way to visualize the performance of a car as it drives around the track. It combines lateral acceleration, longitudinal acceleration, and speed differences into a single graphic that is easy to grasp.
Notice that we have switched to a view directly over the car, as if you are a helicopter flying and turning with it. As you scroll forward in time, the track will pass underneath you. The top of the display is the forward direction of the car. The width of each block is proportional to lateral acceleration. The length (in the direction of travel) of each block is proportional to longitudinal acceleration
The inside color is red for braking, blue for accelerating. Intense red is hard braking, intense blue hard acceleration. White means you are neither braking nor accelerating. Blocks are 0.2 seconds apart"
Here is the data/video of my brother's best lap which just happened to be when he was chasing the GTR
As mentioned in my other post this clearly shows the impact the driver has on lap times. I did however pass a Porsche Turbo.
If any of you are interested here are the three videos on my brother's afternoon session in which he passed everything on the track with him except the GTR
The Jeep SRT8 shows up near the start of this video
This one includes the GTR near the end
My next track day is also at Mosport GP on June 17 so I'll have a chance to practice some more. Hopefully I'll get the video sound problem worked out by then.