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Looks like the 20th should be a good day at LRP if anyone is interested. A little chilly though 🥶 and an even colder ride to get there. Have fun if you do go.
Last edited by Eddie07S; Nov 17, 2020 at 09:03 AM.
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Agreed, it looks like the R comps should come up to temp by the afternoon. Mine are stored in the basement, and the MINI is in hibernation mode, covered in the garage with battery tender, multiple mouse traps set, and a box full of dryer sheets stuffed throughout!
My gray MINI is, likewise, in the garage and on a battery tender. Tires are in the basement. It, however, will rotate in and out to share driving duties with the other MINIs on the good days this winter. The Jeep is in the shop as I type this, in prep for the major winter duties.
This is pretty close to what I have (picture off the internet). Mine is a 2006, 2.4L, 4 cyl, 6 speed, black, hardtop with the same roof racks as on here. At 155ish HP it is pretty gutless but it goes in the snow and can climb the side of that building (if I were so inclined.... )
2006 Wrangler TJ (not a Rubicon, though)
Had a bunch of work done... Rebuild the front axle, new front brakes including calipers, new shocks all the way around, $$$$. But at least I wasn’t dealing with all of the rust.
If you have not run the NASCAR course, do it. It is quite a bit different from the long course. It has 3 long straights which all have about the same top speed, so brakes take even more of a beating. Going into T10 is a lot different as the approach will be about 30 mph faster, which makes that turn and T11 really interesting. However, that course is a bit like a longer version of LRP, with only one real left turn.
So I can drive 45 minutes to Lime Rock, or drive 4 hours to WGI to drive mostly the same track? Hmmm...
I didn’t exactly want to say that (or did I... )
If they do it as a “one day full and one day NASCAR” then I would say it is worth going. But, really, one goes to WGI for the full track, so a full event of the NASCAR course will be a bit Meh, especially in a MINI where high Hp cars will greatly overshadow them. There will be 3 straights where a MINI will get eaten up and spit out by those cars and nothing to equalize the Hp difference as there is in the full track.
Great minds think alike! 😉 Looks like their standard 2-day event, with one day on the NASCAR circuit and one on the full layout. There may still be snow on the ground in the Finger Lakes during the first week of May. Ask me how I know 😳
Ya, I know... As me how I know...
Actually, I just missed one of those times with a late April snow event and have since moved my first trip there to June as a result.
I did do 2 days on the NASCAR loop in an event when they were paving the track a few years back. I was given an opportunity to drive a couple of NASCAR stock trucks at that event and didn’t want to pass that up. Turned out that I was also able to be out on the track in my MINI with a couple of Porsche 962 race car. No comparison...
To help carry everyone through these winter months, I thought a few videos of track days from this past season would help. In August I took my JCW to WGI for its inaugural track day run. 3 days of open track hosted by BMWCCA GVC chapter...
It was a great group, but most of the cars were much faster than the JCW. I did go out with that Lotus that shows up in the end of the video. He and I were pretty well matched. Not sure where that video is, if I took any at that time. Friday was a “get aquatinted with the car” day. So, no video from that day. Saturday and Sunday I was feeling much better about the car.
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