Took some rear facing gopro video from my #wing and essentially made raw footage for a 2017 911 commercial.
Took some rear facing gopro video from my #wing and essentially made raw footage for a 2017 911 commercial.
M235i racing. Needs more wing.
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M235i racing. Needs more wing.
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This was difficult to watch:
I’m not a fan of hers, but I hope she gets better. What a crazy election cycle.
This was difficult to watch:
I’m not a fan of hers, but I hope she gets better. What a crazy election cycle.
Man, the sexist folks will love seeing that
Man, the sexist folks will love seeing that
This guy actually got 1st place in his class race (Nasa TT3 at Watkins Glen).
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This guy actually got 1st place in his class race (Nasa TT3 at Watkins Glen).
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Oh sweet, my car is worth $70k.
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Oh sweet, my car is worth $70k.
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I drove my student’s new S7 this weekend. He had it APR tuned to 500-something horsepower, plus the TCU tune. The first thing we did was turn that software off. The car has two peculiarities that make it difficult to drive on a track.
First, the throttle is hyper-sensitive. I’m not sure if this is just the tune. I literally drove it around the track using only the first 5% - 10% of the throttle application, which the edge of my toe. Pushing the throttle any harder would drop a few gears, summon the turbos, and the car would JUMP off line by about 2 car widths. This is a car where you can really only apply the throttle in a straight line.
Second, it has a luxury car brake progression with two distinct zones. The first 50% of the pedal travel is for chauffeuring people, and creeping up to stop lights. The next 25% of the brake travel summons panic braking mode. The last 25% of the pedal gets you into ABS.
Other than that, you can actually put down a decently fun lap in an S7. When you goose the throttle before the apex it goes into a nice, slow motion 4 wheel drift as the front and back end of the car fight each other, like a firetruck with rear steering wheel. The weight gives it a lot of safety in that it is hard to redirect that momentum. In contrast a Boxster is the easiest car to spin. The S4 is still going to be marginally quicker and not as subject to tire and brake fatigue.
I drove my student’s new S7 this weekend. He had it APR tuned to 500-something horsepower, plus the TCU tune. The first thing we did was turn that software off. The car has two peculiarities that make it difficult to drive on a track.
First, the throttle is hyper-sensitive. I’m not sure if this is just the tune. I literally drove it around the track using only the first 5% - 10% of the throttle application, which the edge of my toe. Pushing the throttle any harder would drop a few gears, summon the turbos, and the car would JUMP off line by about 2 car widths. This is a car where you can really only apply the throttle in a straight line.
Second, it has a luxury car brake progression with two distinct zones. The first 50% of the pedal travel is for chauffeuring people, and creeping up to stop lights. The next 25% of the brake travel summons panic braking mode. The last 25% of the pedal gets you into ABS.
Other than that, you can actually put down a decently fun lap in an S7. When you goose the throttle before the apex it goes into a nice, slow motion 4 wheel drift as the front and back end of the car fight each other, like a firetruck with rear steering wheel. The weight gives it a lot of safety in that it is hard to redirect that momentum. In contrast a Boxster is the easiest car to spin. The S4 is still going to be marginally quicker and not as subject to tire and brake fatigue.
Huh? 500 and change isn’t that much power these days and with AWD, I’m not sure why you’re saying it can only be applied in a straight line and that it jumps off the line by almost 2 car widths.
Really strange.
I hear instructors say things like that almost every time that I go to a road course. It is bullshit!
Most instructors want the car to stay perfectly settled the entire time around the course. Kind of like a weird dancer mindset. However when your car actually makes real power and it unsettles the weight transfer they freak out. I have to roll on the brakes and gas pedal then press hard to keep everything settled enough to not scare the instructor into telling me to pull off the track. PsYkHoTiK actually posted a tip a while ago about this with brakes and I started doing the same thing with the gas pedal to keep my car settled. Saki regularly brings up how road course instructors take like 2 to 3 seconds to change gear and that is one more way that they want the car to stay settled. Give a road course instructor a person with a decently fast car (high 11s or low 12s in 1/4 mile) that power shifts, has a very touchy gas pedal, oversized brakes that will not fade, and good steering/suspension to stress them out enough to have a heart attack.
/rant
I mean, it’s like taking an SUV on the track. You can technically do it, but it’s an exercise in restraint. I wouldn’t make a habit of it. Applying 500 horsepower at the apex sends the car on a new trajectory towards the dirt. It’s not the power, it’s the long wheelbase and the front and back of the car having different angular momentum.
The low roof and tall seat makes it hard for big people to get in there with a helmet. The air conditioned seats were nice. It’s a much better car for drag strip than road course. The newer M5 are like this too - slower than an M235i around the same circuit.