NASA Event @ Summit Point April 9 & 10

ResIpsa

It was a great weekend at Summit Point. The weather was about perfect for the cars (overcast and chilly) but the track was a little slick. Luckily, the sun cleared for my last glorious session.

And my brakes… With the CarboTech XP/10 front and XP/8 rear, Castrol SRF fluid, and brake ducts I could brake late and hard all session without even a hint of fade. Even my instructor was impressed.

I guess I jinxed myself with that “beating up on mustangs” quip in my first post… There were some seriously fast Mustangs in HPDE 2. I had to give a lot of point byes to a crazy SVT Cobra and another seriously crazy Shelby. The Shelby pulled harder on me in the back straight than the Z06 in the group.

One sad note was an overzealous driver in group 1 who may have totaled his car. He went too fast into turn 2, got his outside wheels in the dirt, overcorrected without easing off the throttle, and when he finally got all four wheels on the track shot like a pinball into the inside wall.

What was he driving?

A brand new ZR1

__________________
The Reed Law Firm; Michael Fasano VA Attorney and Counselor at Law: A Virginia Traffic, Criminal, and Family Lawyer.https://reedlawva.com/

spinhead

Man that scares me. I'm going to Track Daze at summit point in may, and I'm debating whether to blow the money on hpde insurance. I almost had myself convinced that I'd be alright without it, then I see this...

__________________
Consequences will never be the same.

MightyBobo

Take it from someone who HAS cracked up at the track, on his first time out: if its bothering you that much, and you have the cash for it (I didnt at the time, sadly), then just get it. Its reasonably priced I believe, and compared to the $4200 in damage I had to pay (and that was CHEAP), it would have been worth it.

__________________
I don't own a car anymore.