Well we arrived at the hotel just after 10 pm last night, after conversing with some follow one lappers, and figuring out we needed to set the alarm for 5:45 we had heads on the pillow around 11. Last as I was falling off to sleep, my youngest daughter sent me a text about Bin Laden but we figured we’d catch up on news Monday morning. After a great night’s sleep, showered, dressed, checked out and breakfast at the hotel buffet, we headed to the track, about a 30 minute drive.
This track is the first of all to follow of new to us tracks.
After Summit Point in the schedule, neither Dave nor Greg has been to these tracks before.
So unlike Summit Point where we all ready knew the track and how to drive it well, all the remaining tracks are totally unknown to us.
So here’s the routine, study the track map, read the turn by turn descriptions and view u-tube videos, all these over and over again.
These are things you can do during the transits.
The other very important thing is to arrive early and walk (we scooter, good workout too) the track, look at all the turns in person, paying attention to rubber marks left on the track from use, analyze spin marks form other’s mistakes, but most importantly, recall all the descriptions and videos we saw and develop your own approach to how your going to learn the track at speed in one lap and race 3 and of course, keep the car upright, shinny and straight when you finish.
It’s a lot to ask.
Greg ran the first session in the morning.
During one of the runs after Greg, a Porsche dumped it’s coolant on the pit straight all the way through turn 8.
They shut the track down for 1.5 hours cleaning up the mess.
Porsche’s are not intended to have coolant anyway.
So we had a nice leisurely track snack bar lunch, yummy and free time to catch up on a few things.
Remember it’s all about the sleep.
Dave will run the second session around 1 pm.
Then pack up and transit to the BMW Performance Center Test Track at the US BMW Factory in
Spartanburg, SC
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