In-Car at Willow Springs + Off-track dirt action...Thanks Ice Mode...

[M.Bonanni]

So here's the short version of the story behind this video. It's nearly 8 months old and I never intended to do anything with it, but the other day I decided I wanted to start teaching myself the basics of video editing so I pulled this footage up and the end result is this video.

This is video from the last time I will ever track my 370Z...at least until I can get another daily driver and turn the Z into a dedicated track car. Why? This was the single most frustrating day I have ever had at a race track. After battling with the lovely ice mode issues most of us are plagued with, I went to this event with the primary goal of testing the last few ideas I had to combat the issue. None of them even remotely worked which left me with zero confidence in the brakes. Determined to salvage the day I just tried to push on and log seat time even though I was losing seconds a lap braking super early with less pedal pressure than I use during normal street driving. Late in the day I decided to start trying to carry a tad more speed and that's when the ABS bit me in the *** and tried to straighten the car out while the track was turning. The ABS and I had a small fight and the ABS ended up winning and the left side tires got in the dirt between turns 8 and 9 and there was no saving it from there. Fortunately it ended up being an uneventful off-track excursion as it could have been MUCH worse at this area of the track.

Although I wasn't happy with the car or the lap time, I still ended up getting 2nd in TT-S so I guess I can't be that bummed.