Found out what "Lifting" means, the hard way at Blackhawk Farms Raceway

[RACER X #99]

Originally Posted by DAVID GAGNARD

Check with the track about instructions and such. Sign up for an HDPE day/days school, if need be, do the track day in your wife's car. Most any car will do as the basics apply to the proper driving techniques regardless of what kind of car your driving.

David

Right on Dave, one day instruction in your everyday driver will teach you more than 30 days of driving by yourself.

That's why you see inexperienced Cobra drivers getting blown away by experienced drivers in their 4 banger mini cars.

[John McMahon]

Originally Posted by RACER X #99

Right on Dave, one day instruction in your everyday driver will teach you more than 30 days of driving by yourself.

That's why you see inexperienced Cobra drivers getting blown away by experienced drivers in their 4 banger mini cars.

Very True....and don't forget when Fez rented that Dodge Neon and burned the tires up at Beaverun!

It ain't so much about the car...it's about driving ability and technique!

[DAVID GAGNARD]

True story,Doug was there to confirm this....
At our local road course track,there is a "lapping day",(practise/test,tune) the day before each of the 6 races in our series. it is open to anyone.They generally break it down to 4 run groups. the first two being street cars and the last 2 run groups being race cars.
I was there testing before the race and there was a guy that drove his daily driver,2/dr. Honda Accord there with his wife.They came from at least a hundred miles away, it was his second time ever on the track. His car was about a year old and other than some good tires and brake pads, it was showroom stock.....
I noticed he was running very well and someone was timing his laps and I was impressed,so I watched him as he was not in my run group.After the noon break, I loaded up my car and was watching the others before I left. The Accord was flying around the track and he passed a Z06 right in front of everyone much to the dismay of the Vette driver.
Next session out, I was timing him and not only did he pass the same Vette, within 10 laps he LAPPED IT!!!!!!!!!!when the session was over, the Vette driver came off the track never slowed down and headed out the front gate home!!!!!!!!!
No way should the Accord have passed the Z06, it had huge tires and brakes and more than enough HP to run circles around all the street legal cars there that day.

Smooth driver,nimble car will beat huge horse power/poor driving all day long!!!!!!!!!!!

David