Where Can I Find Track Maps ??

[fasthonda]

hi darren!

i've been instructing george a bit this year, and i will agree that a box stock 997 GT3 is most competent track car, 'out of the box', that i have ever been in!

george is beginning to learn 'balancing the car with the throttle';  for instance, if we enter T4 just a tiny bit too fast, and the driver can see/feel/intuit that the car is going to be wide of the apex, then george is very very slightly learning to feather the throttle, allowing the nose to bite and tightening the line up so that he can clip the apex (and back on the throttle almost immediately) and continue on to track out properly. 

i drove his GT3 briefly, and it really responds quickly (and beautifully!) to the driver's inputs.  a tiny feathering of the throttle is all it takes to make an adjustment, and then a gentle squeeze back on the throttle and the line is corrected and the driver is looking down-track to the next turn.

george is learning these kinds of 'intermediate-advanced' skills, gradually, in small steps.  as you said before, this is a FAST car;  a serious machine, and requires respect.  repetition, and practice is definitely the name of the game for learning to drive this car! 

as an instructor, i find it very easy to determine when my student is driving a bit 'digital', or jerky.  in his GT3, i can so easily feel/hear when his smoothness isnt there.  when his inputs are done correctly, the car feels very RIGHT.  when the driver's timing is off, or abrupt inputs are being made, the car lets us know!  i totally agree that as rear engined Porsches go, this one is very 'friendly'.  but, it wants to be driven correctly, and when it is not, it feels more 'nervous', and lets us KNOW!

darren, will you be coming to shenandoah?  bringing the integra, or the 996?

todd