 I hadn't been to Laguna since June 2009 with Speedventures. That was in the Evo and I got serious brake fade. I'm happy SCCA will be there again on June 17-18 because I was having trouble motivating to find the limit. So I felt slow. Best time of the weekend was a 1:46.6 which is 4s off my best from the Evo. Unlike Sears and Thill, I didn't best my corner speed times by much which accounts for the crappy lap time. That time is roughly equivalent to a top Spec Miata time. I was 3-4s faster than SMs at Thill. Clearly lots of room for improvement. Part of the reason is that I purposely setup the car to understeer by the filling the rear tires with 10% less pressure than the fronts. I also softened the rear compression/rebound to 5 clicks out. Mission accomplished. Car pushed pretty much everywhere. There was also an on track incident between me and the #53 Subaru STI driven by Ron Pippen. We touched my front right to his left rear. Minor fender damage and a change in toe seems to be the only fallout. That and I got stuck in the gravel outside turn 4. Here's the video of race 1; note that I forgot to turn on the camera until after the start. Skip to 18:40 to see the incident: The only apparent damage was a slight indentation in the fender and about 3/8-1/2" of toe-in on the passenger front wheel. Luckily I brought my toe plates and could fix it relatively easily before race 2. Didn't make any other changes to the car for race 2. Video below (forgot to start the camera until after the start again): |