Day at the track

[Longshot270]

Worked yesterday at a local race track and got some good pictures.

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This was my favorite car out there. Got blurred a little bit on the upload :sigh:

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Not all of them looked this good but I never considered a miata to be fast until I watched them own cars 10 times their value. Imagine driving a porche or corvette and seeing a spray painted miata pass you. :smiley_roll1: This is also a picture that got blurred ont he upload.

[Longshot270]

Some more pictures...
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This is the only picture where the car is sitting still

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Some of these also got blurred by the upload

[Longshot270]

A few more...
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And again, the originals are crystal clear. :sigh:

BTW, that mustang was one of the slowest cars there...still beat the dodge challenger though but no suprise there since the blue oval is worth a few horses by itself. :hehe:

[matt7.350]

Nice! Thank You for those!

[88Racing]

Cool!
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[JWBFX4]

Good Pics :thumbs up yellow:

[ian51279]

Not all fo them looked this good but I never considered a miata to be fast until I watched them own cars 10 times their value. Imagine driving a porche or corvette and seeing a spray painted miata pass you. :smiley_roll1:

It's all about the power to weight ratio. :thumbs up yellow:

[cleatus12r]

Sweet pictures! I'd love to see a track day event.....

Better yet, I'd like to DRIVE!

[Longshot270]

The power to weight ratio is exactly the reason why. They weren't over powered and stuck to the road pretty well.

There quite a few times where I got the porches and miatas mixed up because they had body kits and stuff...didn't help I went in there not knowing the difference between the two. :doh: Luckily the friend I invited to help has been racing his entire life and could spot them out. Except he did get the viper mixed up with a corvette when it first got on the track. It was a '96 and looked brand new. That was probably my second or third favorite.

Its a fun track to drive. The times range from a minute 20 for a souped miata to a minute 48 for an F350 dually. They said the diesel race was really scary to watch. I didn't know you could make a dually do a "burn" around a turn because that is the only way to get that kind of time.

I have driven eveything from boats to trains except a car, but I got to take the owner's Audi A4 wagon around the track...Now I wish I had the extra few hundred to install a turbo, the turbo itself is just too expensive. :drool2:

[Longshot270]

Well even though I was unofficially fired (they have a friend I introduced them to working almost every weekend when I haven't had any contact with them since I posted the earlier pictures) I used my connections and power of persuasion to get back out there for an afternoon after I was done working at my new job. As for all of these pictures, I had to upload shrunken versions. These are all less than 1/4 the originals. I have more if anyone wants full sized copies, just name the car.

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Not the fastest but he definitely wasn't the slowest. Had a huge disadvantage on this road track because of the weight. Also had a front tire lock up for a little bit on a straight just before a mean broad turn. After he left a trail of smoke the people in charge started griping how trucks aren't meant for the track and such...then I figured that was one reason they didn't like me working there, my truck was big enough to use their cars as oil change ramps. :evillol:

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Audi R8, I kinda liked them until I saw one in person.

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Mustang, just like last time, was slower than it should have been.

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Yeah, I know, its a chevy car but I still liked the color/stripes/hood and also just a nice picture in general.

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This guy went off the road from a broad sweeper turn that was off-camber and still kept a car that was tailing/trying to get around from passing him. I was bummed he got the black flag but rules are rules. He was a super good driver to pull it off.

[fifity]

My old miata...

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm88/buell914/100_1437.jpg

Here are a couple shorts from the missus filming last time I was at thunderhill:

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm88/buell914/th_100_1451.jpg (http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm88/buell914/?action=view&current=100_1451.mp4)


and:

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm88/buell914/th_100_1450.jpg (http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm88/buell914/?action=view&current=100_1450.mp4)


car was fast...damn fast....250 plus hp to the wheels, around 200 ft lbs of torque, weighed 2100 lbs...big tires, big brakes...
Eventually bought a wing for it (couldn't hook the rears coming out of turns, so I had to turn the boost down to 8psi from 16 psi)
God that car was fun... Sold it to do the minis...what was I thinking? :hmmm:

[Longshot270]

Yeah, until the owner let me take his turbocharged audi A4 wagon I had never driven a car for more than 100 ft. I'd like a turbo but I wasn't impressed with how some of the cars out there handled. For a $100 I could lower my truck back to the front stock height and stiffent up the suspension but I like playing on dry dirt way more than street.

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The full sized image of this mini looks really good (like most of the others). The minis were decently quick. They had a tendency to squeal the tires on turns more but they very rarely lost control. The one in the picture also made an annoying sound like a mosquito buzzing in your ear. :lol:

Those guys would be in real trouble if I had the money, equipment and desire to build my own track car.