Had a great time at SOW last weekend. Met a great guy in a vette, who happened to be turning the fastest laptimes of the day. He decided to film several of us, just because he was a good guy and knew we'd enjoy watching it.

First video (myself - blue mini, buddy - red mini):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...25627169978963
These were 1:35 lap times counter clockwise.

Second video (xbook - DS mini)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...45396073591739

Third video (Oli - driver in the vette)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...07661689196436

Next time, Oli plans to follow closer to get better footage.

Gary

 

Thanks for the vids!

1.28 is my best on that configuration, fyi.

Great seeing Jason out there.

You guys should get Chase-Cam and record your own vids. That would be nice too.

 

1:28 is VERY impressive. I only saw 2 people below 1:30

Vette (Oli) - 1:22
Evo - 1:26

I should have been able to get into the 1:33 range, if I drived a bit cleaner lines and had better tires. I had a leak in one of my tires, so by the end of each session I was only running 10psi (made the backend a bit squirly).

I actually met you at Steve's Auto Clinic, when I got my pulley on. I believe my dad gave you his lower grill, since he bought the M7 one.

We'll have to get you out to the next one...get a better mini showing

Gary

 

as posted elsewhere, I was there with a camera (or three) and snagged one or two reasonable pics of the Mini's and a few of the other cars

this is the vette 'chase cam car'



some unknown guy in a Silver Mini



couple of really slow drivers..



vette at speed



Lotus at speed



Mini at speed (or a very, very long exposure)




another Mini at speed



The entire days worth of pics are here if someone can pass the link to 'vette guy, I m sure he can find something he likes. I have uploaded the full resolution versions of the files too - so you can make our own posters

 

Thanks MaxN. I've already passed on the link to Oli (the vette guy).

 

Very very cool. SoW was the first track I ever got on. I took my motorcycle (an SV650) out there in October of 2002. Actually, it was Halloween; one of the instructors was wearing a monkey suit (furry, not tuxedo). It's funny how well I remember that track, given that it's been over four years since I've been there, and we ran in the other direction (guess you never forget your first time!). That bowl was just fantastic, even going downhill. I hope to get back out there someday!

Congrats! Some nice video there! Gotta find out more about his telemetry setup; that's really neat.