Interesting but with concrete and blasted rock walls for run-off. Don’t want to make a mistake there....
Maybe someday...

 

Yeah, let's see if your Mini can quarry some granite. The piles of rock in the paddock didn't escape my attention.

 

When it first opened, rocks near the track were a problem and that's why I didn't go back for a few years. But they've cleaned it up pretty well with curbing and the runoff areas, to the extent they exist, are now seeded. If you make a serious mistake, the more likely scenario is that you smack a tire wall.

 

Tire walls must be new-ish...
I would like to try the clockwise direction. I was not a fan of the counterclockwise direction.

I think Patroons will be doing a 2 day event there in the fall. That might be a possibility.

 

OK, I am on the books for a day with SCDA at LRP on the 17th! Woo Hoo!
I signed up for Advanced run group.
I’ll target to be there at or before 7:30 am

 

Do you think Palmer influenced the design of the slot car track I built a few years ago?

 

 

Very cool. Mk I Cortina is one of my favorite Fords besides Mk I Escort BDA2000.

 

I wonder if they have plans to pave the rest of the paddock......

 

That would be nice. The last time I was there I picked up a stone shard in a tire that went through the soft rubber and into the cord. I lost a new tire with that one...

 

]I just started this thread. Any idea what's going on?
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...n-my-dash.html

 

So, you want to know how to drive the chicane at LRP:

And probably the best 2 videos showing how to get around LRP:
Who better than Sam Posey to walk you through how to do it right:

Or Skip Barber (you know, the guy who owns the track) with some great shots of a MINI Cooper out on the track and a few cars exiting the track inappropriately -


I’ll be there next Monday and they will do the chicane in the last session. Weather looks iffy, so it will be rain tires, which happen to be the same as the dry tires -

 

And Liam Dwyer instructing Jeff Gordon around LRP -

So much fun, and so quick...

 

I did the chicane with SCDA once before. It was years ago. I'll look to see if I have footage. I remember it being a ton of fun and asking Ian why we don't do it more often.

 

gkp - great to see you today. Sounded like you had a good day.

The Turn 3 flagger came over and asked the “Na Na Na” Vette guy and me if we did the chicane and what did we think of it. I said that we had and it was definitely different and it added an interesting level of complexity and technicality to the track. I would have to run the track with the chicane a few more times to form a more definitive opinion. For now I will say that it was a nice option and the quick lefts and rights were fun.

As for braking, I found I could brake later than I originally thought and that if I carried a fair amount of trail braking into the turn-in the car would turn nicely. Of course that killed all of my momentum and I was too low in 3rd to pull well in the first part of the chicane. 2nd might have been faster initially but the shift to 3rd would have taken away some of that gain; but I didn’t try it. As it was, I was shifting out of 3rd, into 4th at the exit of the chicane, then would lift slightly going into west bend. Funny thing was that I then reverted to my old habit of braking for the downhill turn.

A good day all in all...

 

I started out by shifting down to second for the chicane and kept running out of revs before the top of the hill. Shifting to third at the top of the hill sucked because it left me in third-or-fourth quandary for West Bend. For the final three or four laps I did the chicane in third and it worked out much better and gave me time to get into fourth for West Bend. In any case, a good day. My MINI is running well these days. If they do the chicane again they should do it for at least two sessions. It took me the entire session to come close to a braking/shifting strategy so never really "attacked" the chicane.

 

For the last session I pointed a camera out the rear window. This is one of my last runs up the chicane when I was just starting to feel comfortable. You can hear me nipping the curbs.

 

For the last session I pointed a camera out the rear window. This is one of my last runs up the chicane when I was just starting to feel comfortable. You can hear me nipping the curbs.
SORRY FOR THE DOUBLE POST. TRIED TO IMBED VIDEO AND IT DIDN'T WORK. HOW DO I DELETE THIS SECOND POST?

 

Great video!

Just leave the second post. Now that it is annotated, everyone knows it was a double.

 

Gkp - Got any track days coming up?

I plan to be their on the 19th to see the IMSA cars do practice and quals.

 

I have tickets for the 20th. As for track days, none in July — I have to look at the schedule for August and beyond.

 

There is a 2 day Patroons event late August that I am looking at. I should probably sign up in the near future as it may fill up... Ooops...

Enjoy the races!

 

Hey, the C8 Corvette is to be released on 7/18...
What is the chance that it will be at LRP on the 19th or 20th?
Keep you eyes out for it if you are there. I sure plan to watch for it when I am there on the 19th.

 

Looks like the C8 reveal will be out in Orange County, CA....in a blimp hanger.

 

WHAT!

So no one can see it?

Once again Chevy marketing people are doing a bang up job of marketing their cars... NOT!

They don’t advertise their cars, so no one knows they make cars. Duh - they make the Siverado - wait, that’s a PU. And they wonder why they are not selling any cars. They have the perfect venue for making the C8 reveal, a race track with the Corvettes it is replacing, where there is a ton of money and car people to impress and yet they go and stick it in a hanger.... Clearly, those are not the people they are trying to impress. Maybe they’ll get Ken Block to do some donuts with it, fill the hanger with tire smoke and they can post it on YouTube...