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First 335i Track Day Today.
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07-28-2007, 07:36 PM | #1 |
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First 335i Track Day Today.
Stock M Sport suspension with Dunlop Runflats on and on a modified roadcourse/autocross course top 5 out of 44 cars. Mostly porsche's, the only cars to beat me were a modified Z06, a C6 Z06, a 700hp 996 911, and a 996 911 turbo. The modified Z06 (C5) and the 996 911 turbo (somewhat modded) only beat my time by 3 and 2 seconds respectively. Everyone else only got within 4 seconds of my time or alot farther behind. E90 FTW. There was a vert e46 m3 that posted his fastest of 10 seconds behind me.
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07-30-2007, 03:22 PM | #3 |
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Autocross does not equal track day...
Road Race course = track day Drag Strip = track day Autocross = haulin ass in a parking lot for 55 seconds X 4.
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07-30-2007, 03:31 PM | #4 |
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Admittedly I've never taken my cars to a track or a strip, but I'm curious as to why 14 seconds x 4 at a drag strip qualifies as a track day whereas 55 seconds x 4 in a parking lot does not?
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07-30-2007, 03:48 PM | #5 |
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The drag strip is a track of sorts...the autocross course is usually a parking lot...abandoned air field...or just a bunch of unused asphalt/concrete. I competed a bunch in 2000/2001/2002 in autocross....in 2001 alone I did 17 events...X 4 or more runs each event. Its fun..but spending 3/4 of a day or all day long at an autocross for three to four 50 second runs got old after a while.
I'd much rather do a track day with 4-5 twenty-five minute sessions at a road course now.
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I'm just saying that I'd be somewhat discouraged posting on a board about my autocross experience if the response was "an autocross isn't a track day". It may happen in a parking lot, but it still takes quite a respectable level of skill - I'm sure you can agree. Sorry, I'm not trying to cause an argument - I just want the OP's post to be recognized for its content rather than its choice of terminology. Everybody has to start somewhere!
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07-30-2007, 05:47 PM | #7 |
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understood...I just question the use of the word track here. Some autocross courses you can frickin fly at...(the ones built by the corvette guys, for example). I have hit the rev limiter in third a few place before....yes, we were haulin then.
BTW, FWIW, I am really not a drag strip guy...never have been.....never will be.
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08-20-2007, 04:33 PM | #11 |
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CupAChow...been to Mather..the corvette guys love to make everything wide open and fast. I got real fast at Atwater once too...airfields rock.
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08-20-2007, 06:48 PM | #12 |
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I agree, I like Mather the best (and when I went to UCD it was close to me), but Atwater is not bad too. Who do you run the most with? American Auto-X? NASA? SCCA? I think I'll be at the American AutoX one on 9/8.
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08-20-2007, 08:11 PM | #13 |
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I just started again..and went to SCCA. I think I am gonna try a BMW one at Marina next.
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