Road Course Videos

[DGatzby]

I’ll start the thread, so we can stack up videos in one thread, unless we want to highlight by track?

Anyway here is session #2 at Road America Saturday. The last lap here was my best time for a lap of the weekend. I’ll put together some other clips, but I know it is boring to watch, so I may try some clips for entertainment next. MVP hates Challengers because some ass came in a couple of years ago, entered advanced and caused a mess. Oh well, point byes are good passing practice. The Redeye was working great. Ha, at least on Saturday.

 

[vortecd]

You ready to pass the camaro and the mustang held you the camaro was gone but you caught him again

 

[Mean Cat]

Very cool , go get em boyyy !

I have no road course vids, only strait line.

 

[ChargerChallenger]

Next up Porno Videos via @Stormtrooper1320 😁. Sorry @DGatzby couldn’t resist and thank you for sharing your videos and I was truly sick to my stomach when your pride and joy malfunctioned In one of your about to be best laps.

 

[Mean Cat]

Next up Porno Videos via @Stormtrooper1320 😁. Sorry @DGatzby couldn’t resist and thank you for sharing your videos and I was truly sick to my stomach when your pride and joy malfunctioned In one of your about to be best laps.

Hmmm ?

 

[ChargerChallenger]

Hmmm ?

Ask @DGatzby to post that one if you can stomach it.

 

[Mean Cat]

Ask @DGatzby to post that one if you can stomach it.

I'll leave that to him, if he wants & has not yet, It's news to me.

 

[Mean Cat]

I did notice a strange & different exhaust sound or it was the brakes ? in that vid about 1/2 in.

 

[DGatzby]

Nothing wrong with the brakes etc. Saturday was flawless. These were laps in session #1. I’ll post another set where I ran about six laps all within one second of consistency. Sunday some electrical gremlin hiccuped. I was driving with a P0420 code that appeared minor, benign, etc. in light rain/mist. At this point my dealer has been wonderful looking at my car with 11,000 miles on it. It appeared weird, still looks weird, but first things first right? The starter was toasted! We will have a new one tomorrow and then hope we will fire it up and ask it again what is your problem? I even looked at a computer screen at the dealer yesterday, it was being a bitch. Silent treatment via diagnostic messages! So they went to the fundamentals, looked at the starter that was not doing anything even with no other indications of a problem. Me? I never hit the damn starter button until it was safely parked in Park on the side of the track. If that thing engaged in Drive, then someone needs to explain how that happened.

 

[Stormtrooper1320]

Yeah.....I watched your video....and knowing that you were rightfully torqued up......decided not to comment right away. I'm sure you have a lot of fun doing that type of racing, and it's disheartening when something bad happens. I'm sure you'll get it figured out and be back at it soon.

 

[Bowtie Guy]

Any specific rules on a track like this with reference to passing ?
Are slower cars suppose to pull down ?

 

[DGatzby]

Yeah.....I watched your video....and knowing that you were rightfully torqued up......decided not to comment right away. I'm sure you have a lot of fun doing that type of racing, and it's disheartening when something bad happens. I'm sure you'll get it figured out and be back at it soon.

Yep, what is more fun that running the living shit out of it for 15-20 min at a time. How cool is it to just stomp it, pass another and head for the next corner or do a quick roll race? And no cops anywhere!! Plus watch your own lap times to race against yourself. Of course your last personal best is not fast enough!

 

[Prange]

Thanks for the video. Road America is my favorite track. I've used that escape road at turn 5 a few times in the rain.

 

[Stormtrooper1320]

Yep, what is more fun that running the living shit out of it for 15-20 min at a time. How cool is it to just stomp it, pass another and head for the next corner or do a quick roll race? And no cops anywhere!! Plus watch your own lap times to race against yourself. Of course your last personal best is not fast enough!

I gotta tell ya.....I never imagined the brakes would get as hot as depicted in that video that @BULL posted from his test. That's incredible.

 

[Mean Cat]

You'll get it figured out @DGatzby & get back to it !

 

[Matt someone with an SRT]

Nothing wrong with the brakes etc. Saturday was flawless. These were laps in session #1. I’ll post another set where I ran about six laps all within one second of consistency. Sunday some electrical gremlin hiccuped. I was driving with a P0420 code that appeared minor, benign, etc. in light rain/mist. At this point my dealer has been wonderful looking at my car with 11,000 miles on it. It appeared weird, still looks weird, but first things first right? The starter was toasted! We will have a new one tomorrow and then hope we will fire it up and ask it again what is your problem? I even looked at a computer screen at the dealer yesterday, it was being a bitch. Silent treatment via diagnostic messages! So they went to the fundamentals, looked at the starter that was not doing anything even with no other indications of a problem. Me? I never hit the damn starter button until it was safely parked in Park on the side of the track. If that thing engaged in Drive, then someone needs to explain how that happened.

I like all your data recording metrics displayed on the video

 

[DGatzby]

I gotta tell ya.....I never imagined the brakes would get as hot as depicted in that video that @BULL posted from his test. That's incredible.

TD is a bit more aggressive with the brakes. He uses his worst case data. Which is rough! I’ll sacrifice a few seconds per lap and back out just a bit early on these RA straights. Others on Saturday noticed that also and came and said the car was amazing on acceleration and they could see I was backing out way early themselves.

Hell about 15-20 min after the race the temp gun still showed the rotors at 350 degrees. The wheels themselves were 150 degrees.

The engine just sits and says give me more fuel and spark and don’t worry about me. Now we just need some of these advanced computer systems to back off!! Can a TCM tune be in my future?

 

[DGatzby]

I gotta tell ya.....I never imagined the brakes would get as hot as depicted in that video that @BULL posted from his test. That's incredible.

That BIR turn while fast is nearly equal to what we do at the end of the RA main straight. 155-60! I have a little segment I’ll post where I about slammed into a rookie in a BMW down there Saturday.

 

[BULL]

As a generalization, the energies at BIR vs RA are roughly the same, what makes RA more demanding is that the duration is longer.


(Again, a generalization, the watts into the rotor are roughly similar, but are a longer braking event. Stick your hand into a 400F oven for a second or for 10 seconds...)

 

[TrackDay]

Any specific rules on a track like this with reference to passing ?
Are slower cars suppose to pull down ?

When a lead car gives a hand signal to allow a faster car to pass, they are SUPPOSED to come off WOT and make it easier for the faster car to pass. However, in general with our Hellcats this doesn't matter.