Chuckwalla TT last weekend

[rshon]

O.K., here's a few clips from last weekend (sorry Mark, but my camera was out of tape when you looped it coming out of 14...).

http://youtu.be/ZW9dEwDtOr8

Fun, technical track in the middle of nowhere. I think a lot of us left some time on the table, so we gotta go back (when it's cooler)...

[Don Middleton]

... R6's with ~ 50 heat cycles...

Wow, R6's with 50 heat cycles. Is that a record? Did you send that into Guinness?

Seriously, it sounds like I need to work on my "smooth".

...it was probably closer to 40 cycles, but included a couple of cup races, not just time trials....

Thanks for that...I probably still need to enroll in Jad's "The Total Tire Care Solution to Fast Times" school, but I don't feel so bad now.

[ChuckS]

If you can't afford Jad's school, I may have one for you on tires!

[c4s4pcs]

Russell -

It was fun driving with you last weekend. I appreciate the driver's eye view of your spin, after having enjoyed the real time view. Maintaining the spin to "pan" the shot of my car was a nice touch.

Big Willow in September...

[Don Middleton]

If you can't afford Jad's school, I may have one for you on tires!

We've heard. The Sharp School of Tire Management , where one learns that...
1) When you can see the cord of the first ply, you still have 50% life left, and
2) Where tire life is measured in wear cycles, not heat cycles - the tread rubber is your first wear cycle, cords of each inner belt each give you an additional wear cycle.

[ChuckS]

Don, Your Diploma is in the mail!

[JivenJim]

Chuck I have some poorly worn 888's with a tad of cord. Can you show me how to pass tech and get some more laps outta them dogs. I am thinking shoe polish. (did I say that out loud)

[ChuckS]

Sorry Jim, I draw the line at R888's. One has to maintain SOME values!

[Cajundaddy]

http://youtu.be/ZW9dEwDtOr8

Ha! nice vignettes. You gotta love Billy. His subtle yet direct Black Flag station method. I had a similar frequency of BF visits this weekend at BW with PCA-GGR albeit a noticeably less subtle approach . I must have really cooked my tires Sunday AM cause the car wanted to go off track in the PM. Either that or it was just a series of unforced driver errors. Hmmm.

[mrondeau]

O.K., here's a few clips from last weekend (sorry Mark, but my camera was out of tape when you looped it coming out of 14...).

http://youtu.be/ZW9dEwDtOr8

Fun, technical track in the middle of nowhere. I think a lot of us left some time on the table, so we gotta go back (when it's cooler)...

Russell, That was a lot of fun. Thanks for posting the video. It's not very often that I get to play with the horsepower cars like that. The only other time I had that much fun playing was with all the 944s at SOW.

[ChuckS]

Dave,
I'll bet you were on Toyo R888's. If so, it proves my point about them!

[Cajundaddy]

Dave,
I'll bet you were on Toyo R888's. If so, it proves my point about them!

Nope, on their cousins: Nitto NT-01s. Thinking about it now I usually carefully heat cycle my new tires and let them rest for 48hrs but I did not do so with this set of rears. I essentially just scrubbed them on the Fwy to Chuckwalla and ran them all weekend. I think I will be more diligent about heat cycling my comp tires from now on.

[ronaldtrotter]

Jim, A magic marker does wonders hiding cord!

[rshon]

p.p.s. The Time Trial results for Chuckwalla were not reported correctly to Zone 8. They are using the CC classes, not the A/B/C classes...

[Robert]

p.p.s. The Time Trial results for Chuckwalla were not reported correctly to Zone 8. They are using the CC classes, not the A/B/C classes...

Fixed.