Friday- Yuk! Saturday- Eh. Sunday - Great Fun!

[jakp993]

catchacab wrote:

jakp993 wrote:

What I'm supposed to do in that situation is to dial it back to say 80%, be perfectly smooth, drive the perfect line, be conservative with traffic , etc. What you got was a 90 - 95% run with trail braking, lots of car rotation, very close conditions, and four wheel drifts.

Oooops... I obviously got caught up in the moment. Guess that can happen to the best of us. Come back & see me next year for a proper instructional ride!

Best quote of the weekend (from a BMW guy to me and Paul),

"You will never win a DE, but you can lose one."

Agreed, and I'm the guy normally saying things like that!

However, don't get me wrong. I was never into the "red mist". My best lap time in the session with Greg was a couple of seconds slower than the last run of the weekend, and I know I left at least a second on the table with that. I'll post the video when I get a chance. You'll see that I never used the extra run off in turn 10, had room left to track out in turn 9, and was conservative with my entry speed into turn 3.

I guess I should qualify my percentages. That 90 - 95% was meant as a percentage of my normal driving when I'm solo in the red group.. That's somewhat misleading, cause I never drive at 100%. I'm just not good enough to do that consistently. I always leave mistake room.

Trust me, I made sure I was in complete control all weekend. Spinning was NOT an option after my speech on Friday!!!

Jack