May 26th-27th New Jersey M.P. (Thunderbolt Course)
today was my first time at NJMP Thunderbolt, and it was with the chicane.
Previous setup was -2 front camber, -1.5 rear, stock bushings.
Since then i put on pfadt poly bushings, removed like 80 pounds of carpet and
passenger seat and got a more
aggressive alignment (-3
front, -1.6/1.8 rear), swapped hawk blues on autozone rotors to dtc 70 front /
60 rear on DBA front 2 piece rotors.
stayed the same:
T1 sways, rear set to softest.
275 A6's.
I think it was 88 degrees outside.
Car was very loose on corner entry.
I was running in the competition mode but in my last session, I turned it off
and still spun.
I spun in every session. Was very loose. I have lots of video to analyze but I
was very unhappy. Doing it again tomorrow.
Ben had some good advise and he said to ditch the T1 bar and put in a stock z06
bar. Sounds like a good place to start. I'd rather have a car that understeers.
Cold air pressure in rear was like 23 and hot was 28.
front cold was 25 and hot was 30.
Front felt fine.
| Saturday | 26-May | Overall Results | |||||
| Pos | No. | Name | Overall BestTm | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 1 | 13 | Peter McIntosh II | 01:28.3 | 01:28.3 | |||
| 4 | 99 | Benjamin Lesnak | 01:31.3 | 01:31.7 | 01:31.3 | 01:34.4 | |
| 5 | 61 | John Robbins | 01:31.3 | 01:33.0 | 01:32.5 | 02:27.0 | 01:31.3 |
| 7 | 270 | Glen Crawford | 01:32.6 | 01:34.6 | 01:32.6 | ||
| 8 | 13 | Edgar Cabrera | 01:33.6 | 01:34.3 | 01:34.0 | 01:33.7 | 01:33.6 |
| 9 | 11 | Scott Mandel | 01:33.9 | 01:35.3 | 01:34.8 | 01:34.7 | 01:33.9 |
| 11 | 21 | Thai Diep | 01:34.6 | 01:34.6 | 01:35.7 | 01:37.4 | 01:34.6 |
| I came in 2nd in class | |||||||
| Sunday | 27-May | Overall Results | |||||
| Pos | No. | Name | Overall BestTm | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 |
| 1 | 442 | Michael Fuchswanz | 01:30.5 | 01:30.5 | |||
| 2 | 99 | Benjamin Lesnak | 01:30.9 | 01:30.9 | |||
| 3 | 97 | Randy Petschauer | 01:31.4 | 01:31.4 | 01:31.4 | 01:31.8 | 01:31.4 |
| 4 | 61 | John Robbins | 01:31.7 | 01:31.7 | 01:31.9 | ||
| 5 | 99 | Benjamin Lesnak | 01:32.2 | 01:32.2 | |||
| 6 | 13 | Edgar Cabrera | 01:33.0 | 01:33.0 | 01:34.7 | 01:33.3 | 01:35.3 |
| 12 | 11 | Scott Mandel | 01:35.4 | 01:35.5 | 01:35.4 | 01:37.3 | 01:37.3 |
| I came in 3rd in class |
This shows Ben (gray, 2, outside lap) carrying more speed in
the right turn after the chicane (6th turn after long straight). He was in blue
speed zone (80+ mph) the whole turn but I slowed (blue into yellow back into
blue) so i have to work on that.
this is my best from saturday (1:33) with TCS versus my last run on sunday with no TCS (1:37). big difference but i was spooked and taking it easy to figure out the car. I see two big differences that slowed me on sunday. Turn 8 (right) i took it a lot slower on sunday (inside lap has more blue). And also i got a higher speed sooner on saturday because I was more aggressive on the last turn before the long straight (it got into the green section sooner):
Compilation Video of my spins; not proud of it. Alignment was all off:
6/10/12 Update (click here for June 9-10 NARRA event @ NJMP Thunderbolt):
My alignment was wrong for this event and i had 1/8 rear toe out.
We fixed it to 1/8 toe in in the rear and I went back to the track this weekend
and it was awesome.
Shaved 1.5 seconds off my time, didn't use traction control all weekend. I was
more consistent and no offs even though I drove harder. Came in 2nd both days
behind Ben and won 2 tires for the weekend.
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