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Last week I did my first Track Night in America event at Pittsburgh International Raceway. I have been to one other track day before in another car. Had a great time and realized I might have wasted some money lol. I bought and installed an auto blip a few days before going out but never got time to calibrate it that good. Personally seems like it would be hard to calibrate on the street anyways. I played with it my first outing making sure to only screw with it when no one was behind me in case something didn't go well. Never got it feeling good and finally turned it off. Decided I would try my hand at heel toe braking. I bought the auto blip as I figured it would be hard to learn heel toe and keep up with it unless I'm tracking all the time. To my surprise it seemed to come pretty naturally and I felt that I caught on really quick. Now I wish I would've held off on the auto blip. My second run was all heel toe and felt great. I think I need to move up to intermediate next time. Most everyone had to let me by but I was running the novice group. Must say it does do wonders for your ego anyways. =)
Ended up not getting to run the third time as dude in the Roush Mustang below ate it and jacked up the guardrail. They shut down the track as they said it would be 2-3 hours to repair the damages. The guy was alright, car not so much. He dropped two wheels off on the straight away, over corrected to get back on at speed, spun it around and nailed the guardrail. He didn't have track insurance. To make it worse come to find out it wasn't even his car. His neighbor owned it and passed away a couple years ago. His wife has had it in the garage since and just recently decided to sell it. He told her that he could try and help her sell it if he could take it out some and show it off. He took it out alright. To think of the nerve it must take to take someone's car to the track without their knowledge. I can only hope he does the right thing and buys it.
Anyways had a great time and can't wait until next season. I will do Pittsburgh again and plan to run Mid Ohio as well.
Ended up not getting to run the third time as dude in the Roush Mustang below ate it and jacked up the guardrail. They shut down the track as they said it would be 2-3 hours to repair the damages. The guy was alright, car not so much. He dropped two wheels off on the straight away, over corrected to get back on at speed, spun it around and nailed the guardrail. He didn't have track insurance. To make it worse come to find out it wasn't even his car. His neighbor owned it and passed away a couple years ago. His wife has had it in the garage since and just recently decided to sell it. He told her that he could try and help her sell it if he could take it out some and show it off. He took it out alright. To think of the nerve it must take to take someone's car to the track without their knowledge. I can only hope he does the right thing and buys it.
Anyways had a great time and can't wait until next season. I will do Pittsburgh again and plan to run Mid Ohio as well.
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