integraguy04 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Here is mine at Gingerman Raceway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warrenrp Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickD Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Kind of an odd choice but it's also my daily driver and can hussle around the track very well. This was a DE1 at Watkins Glen: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FASTFATBOY Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Kind of an odd choice but it's also my daily driver and can hussle around the track very well. This was a DE1 at Watkins Glen: Any info or websites on info for tracking these cars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickD Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Any info or websites on info for tracking these cars? I generally chat here: http://www.cobaltss.net/forums/autocross-road-racing-53/ There's a handful of HPDE folks and an instructor but the majority is autocross. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattKremers Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Kind of an odd choice but it's also my daily driver and can hussle around the track very well. This was a DE1 at Watkins Glen: I was at the event running the blue Focus ST. You were kickin' ass in HPDE1! My buddy and I had some entertainment watching you pass some impressive machinery. You seemed to have the same problem I did getting traction coming out of the boot in turn 9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickD Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I was at the event running the blue Focus ST. You were kickin' ass in HPDE1! My buddy and I had some entertainment watching you pass some impressive machinery. You seemed to have the same problem I did getting traction coming out of the boot in turn 9. Heh, thanks. I was struggling getting a good line out of 9 that let me put power down towards the end. Earlier on I just kept it in 4th. Which group were you running with? I do recall seeing your blue ST there and, in fact, my girlfriend has a kick going around photographing cars all around the track. I took a quick look and pulled these down: The stills are here: http://demandred.dyndns.org/~nick/ST/ There may be more, she took over 700 pictures. Luckily that was in the first group and you were by yourself there so it was easy to spot in my thumbnails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjaisli Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Hi Nick. Nice to see you (and your car) on here. I think I got the edge of your car from the Sunday Session 1 line up. And here's one I paid for. Hope to see you out there again sometime! It was my first time at Watkins and the whole weekend was really a lot of fun. -Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickD Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Hi Nick. Nice to see you (and your car) on here. I think I got the edge of your car from the Sunday Session 1 line up. And here's one I paid for. Hope to see you out there again sometime! It was my first time at Watkins and the whole weekend was really a lot of fun. -Jeff Hey Jeff, yeah, I remember chatting with you in the DE1 meeting. It was a great day and dang, you were quick as heck around there too. I actually have a video I took from my dash, I was behind a white (or silver) BRZ and you were infront. We pretty much kept that line-up the entire session. I'll toss it up on youtube and send it to you if you like. I also probably have lots of pictures of your car. I'll have to check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjaisli Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Hey Jeff, yeah, I remember chatting with you in the DE1 meeting. It was a great day and dang, you were quick as heck around there too. I actually have a video I took from my dash, I was behind a white (or silver) BRZ and you were infront. We pretty much kept that line-up the entire session. I'll toss it up on youtube and send it to you if you like. I also probably have lots of pictures of your car. I'll have to check. Quick? That can't be right. Every time there's an article posted about the FT86 platform, a thousand people come out of the wood work to complain about how slow it is and how their family mini van (and a clapped out Mack truck) will blow it away. OK, fair is fair, when you told me you were hitting close to 130 mph before braking into the bus stop it was a real eye opener. Even with an after market exhaust, a catless header and a stage II ECU tune, I was only hitting about 116~117 mph in the same spot. Maybe 118 if I left my braking really late. And in some sessions, I could feel a lot of cars start breathing down my neck on the front straight. But the car is so well balanced and has a nice low COG, right from the factory, that a set of sticky tires and more aggressive brake pads makes it a dream to drive. I actually had no problem putting power down out of turn 9. But maybe I just didn't have that much to put down. Post a link to the video and any pictures. I'd LOVE to see it. I didn't get any video out of that session. Here's one more with your car in the background... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattKremers Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 I was at the event running the blue Focus ST. You were kickin' ass in HPDE1! My buddy and I had some entertainment watching you pass some impressive machinery. You seemed to have the same problem I did getting traction coming out of the boot in turn 9. Heh, thanks. I was struggling getting a good line out of 9 that let me put power down towards the end. Earlier on I just kept it in 4th. Which group were you running with? I do recall seeing your blue ST there and, in fact, my girlfriend has a kick going around photographing cars all around the track. I took a quick look and pulled these down: The stills are here: http://demandred.dyndns.org/~nick/ST/ There may be more, she took over 700 pictures. Luckily that was in the first group and you were by yourself there so it was easy to spot in my thumbnails. Thank you for showing that to me! I started in HPDE1 because it was my first event with NASA. I have been racing most of my life and have run the Glen before, so after the first session I was bumped to HPDE2. The Focus did great, but I have a Mustang that is more track duty I plan on running next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickD Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 So I managed to get all the pictures my gf took from that day and toss them in a gallery. There's over 700 pictures and many are shots like MattKremers's ST, in motion. http://galleries.shacknet.nu/trackdays/thumbnails.php?album=2 I also found pictures from last year's Watkin's Glen event as well: http://galleries.shacknet.nu/trackdays/thumbnails.php?album=1 The quality is turned down on all the pictures to save space, so if you see any you want with the least compression and highest resolution, just message me and I can send them to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjaisli Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 So I managed to get all the pictures my gf took from that day and toss them in a gallery. There's over 700 pictures and many are shots like MattKremers's ST, in motion. Hey, that's great Nick--thanks for putting all of these up! She certainly was busy. If you ever post that video up to YouTube, please send me the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuiephoto Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Looks like a few of you are somewhat local to me. I'm hoping to hit up the glen a few times next summer. OLOA drained all my funds in 2014 so I didn't get to the track as much as I would have liked. 1995 impreza with 2005 sti drivetrain swap. The good news is that I made it into GRM magazine last month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flipstyle72 Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 HPDE 1... going for my 2nd event this month! HPDE toy and daily driver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trhoads Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 last year I changed cars...been coming to grips with FWD and a car that wasn't really designed to do this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meech Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) Here's my HPDE Toy, two tons of joy Made her a hood: Catching the Z4 in NJMP Thunderbolt in the Octopus Turn In the rain Carrera 4S 427 Track Pak Mustang Edited January 29, 2015 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trhoads Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 thats not something you see on track everyday... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubieEngineer Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 thats not something you see on track everyday... Nope! I like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbrad Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 2011 Mustang GT (Black # 52). Could've used a better picture with more car detail but I really this parade of ponies going into turn 10 at Road Atlanta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yamahaSHO Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 (edited) This is my third year using this car for HPDE, however, it's looking like I will start doing TT with it soon. Edited May 20, 2015 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubieEngineer Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 ^ Nice! I wish the STI wasn't so finicky, I'd like to start running TT soon, myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yamahaSHO Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 When I was looking to get back into going track again a few years ago, I looked at my STi and said... 1. It's in pristine condition and 2. there's too much stuff to go wrong and heat to control... and, the motors are not particularly strong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubieEngineer Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 When I was looking to get back into going track again a few years ago, I looked at my STi and said... 1. It's in pristine condition and 2. there's too much stuff to go wrong and heat to control... and, the motors are not particularly strong. Tell me about it! S2k or E36 M3 are my real track car choices. Something streetable that I can still have fun with, that's not FI and worth much less! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Letostak Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Mid Ohio HPDE3 June 6-7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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