A Honda Civic in a sea of Porsches!!!!! video inside.....

[fasthonda]

hi fellas!

wow!!!  what a weekend!!!!  i LOVE LOVE LOVE the Glen!!!  

hands down my favorite track!

i really enjoyed the entire weekend;  beautiful weather, perfect track, nice folks to hang out with, and a great student to teach!   i was sorting out the Honda Civic a little bit, and it got better with every session out (i'd say it's about 80% of the way there, now).....

here is a link to a video of sunday's 3rd red-black session;  i'm starting out gridded behind Larry Herman:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...6520&hl=en

the vid is a tiny bit jumpy;  my miniDV doesn't seem to like the curbs much!  ha!

i'm babying the engine a bit;  shifting at 8k instead of 8600;  we've got a real conservative tune on it;  a bit rich, and there exist some holes in the fuel tables;  we'll work on fixing those on the dyno in the next month!!!

i planned on bringing my good wheels and tires, but due to an unfortunate mishap at VIR last friday, i only have three good, unsmashed wheels and tires!          that meant that i was running this weekend on my towing/dyno/practice set of rubber (you can hear them SCREEEEECHING in protest on the vid!   ha ha ha!).  this is their 3rd year and 11th track weekend.  they are done in!   after about 5 laps or so, those poor old tires would really pack it in and get greasy/slimy (thats why i came in early).  i think i would have been alot better on a fresh set, and they would have lasted longer into the session, too.

if you liked this vid clip, i have two others, both from saturday, which came out pretty nice.....  both are about the same length;  one i start out behind Bob T.;  the other behind Ed K./Fred B.   here they are:

1st red session on saturday starting behind Ed K. and Fred B.:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...3359&hl=en

2nd red session on saturday starting behind Bob T.:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...9717&hl=en


between the three clips, you get to see a good many of the red-black cars in their element -- running hard on the track!!!!!!!!  

i am very upset that the camera didn't start for the 1st red session on sunday;  where i was chasing larry around for several laps in heavy traffic until i started to run out of freaking gas!!!!  that would have been some neat footage to put up!!!!!

thanks again for a wonderful weekend!!

todd

PS  thanks a TON, Larry, for taking me out for a ride in your C car;  it was super AWESOME!!!!!  my aim is to someday make my Civic brake and stick like your RSA!  (and maybe have some of that wonderful top end, too)