Re: Slow Car Fast
Posted: Thu May 31, 2018 7:56 am
TT,
Your suggestions makes a lot of sense, but the club is quite firm in the fact that there are NO requirements for big track driving. A few smart people have taken it upon themselves I believe to somewhat limit Fontana and Big Willow for complete newbies, but a 16 year old in a GT3 RS on his birthday is welcome to join us at Buttonwillow (may need to be 18, I forget).
The spinning of a 996GT3 was easy, the 997GT3 was hard, but doable, spinning a 991GT3 is really really hard and the other 991+ cars are worse. I only know of 1-2 991+ drivers that have really tried to AX without any nannies for more than a lap or two. Know what? It is hard, much easier to fly around with the nannies and get a good time. I really doubt a single one of them could accurately explain what the nannies are, when they are on/off etc like you did in a previous post. I have not even tried to distinguish between nannies and performance enhancement devices, as they really work together, but as you stated, are technically serving different purposes.
The PDS should absolutely be a no nannie event, but "the cars are driven as they would be on the street, as this is not racing." I have been told.
Oh, well. I would absolutely love to see the 991 drivers of today have to drive your old 911 at Chuckwalla and get a sub ~2:05 in order to advance. If they could do that, then they would have shown they understand car dynamics enough to safely utilize and understand what the nannies are doing (other than power on oversteer ) and advance as drivers.
That is why I haven't been to the last few PDS's after teaching at virtually every one for 25 years. Watching the driver punch the gas with 500+ hp and smoothly pull away as the car performs perfect shifts until the corner where you point to what side of the track they should be on while they mash the brakes and crank the wheel and the car just turns to the apex and downshifts where they mash the gas and repeat. It works, but pointing left-right and knowing they don't feel the car correcting the myriad of errors isn't fun or very useful in my opinion.
Your suggestions makes a lot of sense, but the club is quite firm in the fact that there are NO requirements for big track driving. A few smart people have taken it upon themselves I believe to somewhat limit Fontana and Big Willow for complete newbies, but a 16 year old in a GT3 RS on his birthday is welcome to join us at Buttonwillow (may need to be 18, I forget).
The spinning of a 996GT3 was easy, the 997GT3 was hard, but doable, spinning a 991GT3 is really really hard and the other 991+ cars are worse. I only know of 1-2 991+ drivers that have really tried to AX without any nannies for more than a lap or two. Know what? It is hard, much easier to fly around with the nannies and get a good time. I really doubt a single one of them could accurately explain what the nannies are, when they are on/off etc like you did in a previous post. I have not even tried to distinguish between nannies and performance enhancement devices, as they really work together, but as you stated, are technically serving different purposes.
The PDS should absolutely be a no nannie event, but "the cars are driven as they would be on the street, as this is not racing." I have been told.
Oh, well. I would absolutely love to see the 991 drivers of today have to drive your old 911 at Chuckwalla and get a sub ~2:05 in order to advance. If they could do that, then they would have shown they understand car dynamics enough to safely utilize and understand what the nannies are doing (other than power on oversteer ) and advance as drivers.
That is why I haven't been to the last few PDS's after teaching at virtually every one for 25 years. Watching the driver punch the gas with 500+ hp and smoothly pull away as the car performs perfect shifts until the corner where you point to what side of the track they should be on while they mash the brakes and crank the wheel and the car just turns to the apex and downshifts where they mash the gas and repeat. It works, but pointing left-right and knowing they don't feel the car correcting the myriad of errors isn't fun or very useful in my opinion.