Mark on Sunday 1st session

[kilgojr]

As title says, Mark's fast lap on Sunday's first session. Cut it down to only the fast lap because it got R-rated after this lap when the S2000 lost his wastegate, and then Mark hit it on the next lap which was showing faster on the lap tracker.

I forsee a Bloopers reel coming out with the post wastegate destruction video.

Mark ran a 1:49.0 on this session, ended the weekend in the 1:48's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOJEBxG62-0

[HPEVOX]

New it was Mark. Always doing that flat hand/fingertip driving with his right hand when he turns left. NASCAR trick?

[bimmertech]

New it was Mark. Always doing that flat hand/fingertip driving with his right hand when he turns left. NASCAR trick?

Now I'm curious to see how you drive.

[HPEVOX]

Now I'm curious to see how you drive.

Underhand, one handed, at 12 o'clock position. LOL. I just remember him doing it on the AMP video too.

[chuck schultz]

As somebody who's driven forklifts for most of my life, I'm always nervous when I see thumbs wrapped around the steering wheel. It's a good way to hurt/break a thumb when on uneven surfaces, such as when crossing railroad tracks, or driving on ramps or dock plates.

This experience, as well as that from driving a tractor-trailer, has also taught me that lifting off the throttle suddenly only causes the vehicle to slow down gradually - a really bad habit on track. ;^)

[kilgojr]

As somebody who's driven forklifts for most of my life, I'm always nervous when I see thumbs wrapped around the steering wheel. It's a good way to hurt/break a thumb when on uneven surfaces, such as when crossing railroad tracks, or driving on ramps or dock plates.

This experience, as well as that from driving a tractor-trailer, has also taught me that lifting off the throttle suddenly only causes the vehicle to slow down gradually - a really bad habit on track. ;^)

Good thing we don't race on loading docks.
You've never been in this car before Chuck. Between the cam, engine compression, gearing and aero load...when you lift off the throttle, you slow down real fast. And we don't carry 50,000 lbs on a trailer trying to push us in to the corner. Thank God for that!!!
This is part of the reason why there was only a 1:48 in the car. The car was understeering real bad this weekend on corner exit. There is only so much we could do, other then lift off the throttle, to get the thing to exit well. Bigger wheels are on tap, which will help the grip department. Hopefully there will be very little lifting at TGPR.

[chuck schultz]

I can think of at least four occasions where my "training" at work has bitten me with trailing-throttle oversteer.

1. In my Fiero, at a TGPR Solo II event (yeah, I really meant Solo II, it was that long ago.)

2. In Barry's pizza delivery car during worker laps at TGPR, clockwise, headed for the sweeper.

3. In the Ford GT (Escort, that is) at Barber turn 6, during my first Barber track day, because I saw EV doing a pickup before I saw Evan's yellow flag.

4. In the same car, at turn 12 at Road Atlanta, when a car ahead of me blew up and covered the front straight with a dense, black cloud. Somehow, I didn't hit anything. The 2-feet-in maneuver actually worked, taking me in a straight line, rather than continuing to arc into the concrete drivers' right.

I've also spun the Camaro at Road Atlanta's 10A, but that was a decision to steer rather than to go into the gravel when the cold brakes were ineffective on the out lap. I think that spin and go saved the session for everybody, since, if I'd gone into the gravel, a black flag would've been in order.

[jatow]

Wastegate departure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5JVTw68gTE

Rear view lap, Mark I think this is the lap you hit the debris. You were reeling me in and disappeared at 15-16:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcLAd0BRb1Q