Couple interesting notes from track

cossie1600

#1 Watch for the brakes. While the car stops, but pedal response is awful with the ABS and the occasional ice mode. The problem is worse for me as I ran XP10 pads on street tires (too aggressive), be careful selecting your brakes and tires as the first session was terrifying for me. I tried my best to bed them on the street, but it is nearly impossible to do it properly. I still never got comfortable with them, I need to get better tires or back it down to XP8.

#2 Fuel Starvation. My car started fuel starving after a long sweeping turn on a 12 degree bank, it happened after burning 8 gallons off from full. Car averaged 6.2mpg on the track

#3 Gears are GREAT in this car, you should be able to do most track with just 3rd or 4th and the occasional 5th on the big tracks. I am not sure if you need 2nd unless it is below 45mph.

#4 Car is very easy to drive, it does everything you want, nothing special or hard about it. The aero seems to be very good too as it never danced around on me like the Corvette.

#5 I have a 25R oil cooler, I was running 160F cruising to the track at 60 degree temp. At 70 degree temp at the track, I averaged 220-230F. It got up to 240 when I started beating on it hard. I wonder if this could be an issue on a hotter day? Surprisingly, the under hood temp was very low. The engine oil was just hot.

#6 Throttle response is better at the track (since i am above 4500 most of the time), but it is still weak compare to the 350 in terms of feel.