2nd Track Day in my 1LE: Gingerman
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This is the 2nd of 3 tracks I consider "Home" / have many miles on that I want to run the car completely stock at before I make any changes or upgrades
I went to Gingerman to instruct yesterday and ran the 1LE on stock tires, pads, suspension...so on again. (has Motul 600 fluid) As a point of reference, Gingerman is my "home" track as we have family property 4 miles from the track so I have a few miles on it: (about 35 to 40,000 :drool: ) My student again was Becky D from Rodgers in her white ZL1, which surprisingly did not melt during its first outing in the rain! There was one other ZL1 there (the red one) edit: that is a member here as well (Crangie). Thank you to him for providing the video of him chasing me around a few post below. Becky did very well, but I will let her share her lap times and experience if she wishes. Thoughts/notes:
I ran in Group 2 as I am still getting a feel for the car. Some mentionables from my group were a stock Boss 302, Corvette GS: Race seats, Race tires, Corvette Z06: race tires, cam, headers, Stock ZL1, Mustang Bullet, Mustang Race car: gutted , cage, suspension, race tires,Spec Miata, RX8 Driver experience is unknown in all, but without exaggeration I had no issues with catching and passing or walking away from all of the above (and others) Reality caught me when a BMW 3 series race car slowly caught me.....but his rear wing was higher than the roof line and wider than the car so I figured that was OK :) Note about the BOSS 302 (because I was going to by one before the 1LE package came out) I passed him in my first session and tried to talk with him....he really was not interested in talking with me :noidea: . In the second session I followed him out and then let him have a lap to warm up his tires. After he turned up the wick I noticed (just as magazines had stated) the rear of the car was not planted and he was fighting as it was dancing around.....After about a 1/2 lap of me knocking on his backdoor he let be by and by the end of the session he was at least 1/2 track (1 mile) behind) Lap Times: Fastest Lap: 1:47.34 (long course) Full tank of gas and with a passenger (Becky D) I backed it with other 47s and some 48s. I was slower in the second session with less fuel, no passenger and trying the 2nd gear downshift. I had more fun spinning and drifting in the second session but lap times suffered.
2012 ZL1: 1:44.53 2013 GT500: 1.45.21 Pictures from tower during the downpour late afternoon and from Automobile magazine listing lap times and track layout. Matt |
Thank you for the Info. on your track day glad it when well for you .
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Thanks again Matt for a great day at the track. I still can't believe
the patience you have to ride around with an old lady ;) Riding with you was awesome. You didn't just pass the Mustangs you chewed them up and spit them out!! They were no match. I still giggle at your comments on the straight aways -"more power" I'm sure you'll get that handled. Thanks for posting real track experience. I'm sure there will be several that can learn from it :nod: |
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Some people have ALL the fun!!
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Sounds like you and Becky both had a great time Matt. I'm going to be looking at possibly trying to make it over for the C5 Gingerman event. Will you be attending that one?
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My plan was to attend. But both family and work items have come up so I wont be able to make it. I decided to go on short notice to this event as I wanted to give Becky some pointers so she can lap some Camaros at the C5 event ;) |
Sounds like an awesome day doing just what this car was made for. Nice to see Mustangs getting beat up on at the track :) Hopefully the Reccaros will help with the sliding around in the seat problem for the 14s.
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LOL at the Boss driver not wanting to talk.
Thanks for sharing! |
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Matt,
the red one is member of this forum. Here video proof of your whipping. The BMW was really fast, he came out of nowhere. I will post more later in the ZL1 forum |
Thanks for sharing!
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