Aaron Pfadt

It's been a busy weekend of racing, debating the best line, working on the car (a little) and having an all around great time here at Miller.

The Arizona Corvette Racers showed up in force and they are quite an impressive group. The Time Trial racing talent in this group far exceeded NASA's expectations and on Sunday they responded by giving us our own run group, separate from the HPDE4 guys. We'll try to post the official results after the weekend.

Here's an early photo of Josh and I at Saturday morning grid with Dean.



Between sessions we hung out in the Pfadt garages which were a great break from the sun and to talk about the last session. Darryl at Xtreme Motorsports and I after a fabulous Time Trial session:



Checking out the Pfadt cars during a qualifying session:



One of the cool things about NASA is they'll sometimes run Enduro's. On Saturday we ran our 190 car in the 2 hour enduro, which I love to race in. There were only 15 or so cars entered, but just being out there for two hours is a great experience. We got to practice re-fuelling and checking out the car during the pit stop. Unfortunately we had an overheating problem with the differential that ended the race early for us. We ran strong for about 1.5 hours before the overheating. This kind of testing helps us prepare for longer enduro's so we can make the car bullet-proof.

We rounded up as many of the Corvette racers as we could find and took a group photo. Rudy forgot his camera and earned the "Fast Lap of the Day" award retrieving it on a pink and white bike. His cornering skills through the cones were impressive!



The gang



There's nothing better than being out at the track with Corvette racers - thanks to everyone for coming out!

-Aaron

Short-Throw

Aaron, I think Rudy needs some of your pillow blocks on that pink machine!

Looks like it was a great time. I wish I could have been there.


Mike

mousecatcher

sounds like a great time!

Do my eyes deceive me? Is Darryl sporting a mullet?!

RC45

Looks like you guys had a blast.

One day I would like to make it out to one of these get togethers.

AZ FASTEST

:o And the coilovers!

Everyone said they wanted to see your Beast unleashed on this track!!! It would really give it a chance to stretch it's legs! Think about it for next year!

Short-Throw

I had a great time with Aaron at Autobahn for Track Attack. It wasn't in the cards for both of us to run together as he was busy dealing with all of his fans. One day I will make it Westward and we can all play.


Mike

Wayne O

The Arizona Corvette Racers....I know a lot those guys. They're a good group...knowledgeable...helpful and they run fast. One (Tucson) member in particular has been like a mentor to me (in fact, that looks like his car behind Darryl's). I wish I could have gone...looks like good times!

rustyguns

Hope we both can go next year Wayne O

0Randy@DRM

I just got off the phone with Kenny G. He had a great time and will be back next year.
I tried to talk him into getting a couple hundred pounds out of his car. But he thought it would be better and cheaper for him just to add weight to all the fast guys

Randy

rustyguns

give 'em all 400 Lbs each!

0RAAMaudio

Great event, wish I could of been there all weekend, and with my Vette, instead of just Sunday in a Scion

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Actually I had fun in my family autocross, track day car, got it really fast in the corners, now need to double the power so it can have half the power to weight ratio the Vette will have when done.
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More beautiful Pfadt Racing parts on display, damn sexy things, hate to hide them under a car!!!! But I will use them all in time

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Very much looking forward to joining the Vette coral at future events. I used to not care much for the average Vette owner but the more I am around the real enthusiasts, the more I am glad to finally be one myself and wish I had been many years ago!!!!!


Rick

L98Terror

Looks like a good time, I wish I could have made it.

vetracer

It was an awesome time!

Thanks to Aaron, Robin and the rest of the Pfadt racing crew for preparing lunch for all of us on Saturday

I just made it to Sacramento this morning where I am keeping the rig until June 28-29 when I run Infineon in Sonoma. I'm at the airport waiting to catch a flight back to Phx. I-80 from Miller to here was a dream highway compared to US89 through Utah

Z06Fix

Sounds like a cool event

0Bobby @ LG Motorsports

It looks like its winter year round through there doesnt it!?

ghoffman

No, there are 2 seasons there (like here in NH), winter and 4th of July! Looks like a fantastic facility, and a great event! I wish I could check my car as a carry on so I could fly there. Then again, flying sure sucks these days too!

0JoshS

I think we had about one week of spring... 30 degrees and snowing on Monday and 85 degrees and dry by Sunday. If the event was any earlier I think we would have had to provide snow shovels to the Arizona crew!

We would love to have you come out next year! Maybe you can disassemble the car and carry on the parts throughout the year? The chassis will need to be cut into smaller parts but, don't worry we have a TIG welder so you can weld the bits of chassis back together when you get it here!

Hope you can make it out next year!

Darrell@Xtreme

What a great track!! Big thanks to Aaron, Robin, Jordan, Josh
and the rest of the Pfadt crew we had a blast. Also it was great to
meet Dean from Washington and Milke from Texas. Again thanks
too all for a great weekend of a hole lot of fun.

spazegun2213

wow! thats a great turn out and that track looks amazing!

kentz06

Here is a video of the full track, second session on Sunday morning. Wayne's silver Z06 has a Killer Bee, tune and slicks. The turbo 944 has a little more HP than a stock Z06 and is fully race preped on slicks. My Z06 powertrain is completely stock from the intake filter through exhaust tips, riding on Hoosier R6s. Only used 3rd through 5th gears to keep the rpms down while breaking in the new engine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdVY2LgIY1Y

A 3:12 lap which I can reduce quite a bit more once I learn the track well enough not to get lost! It is hard for my brain to learn 23 corners in half a day. Here is the map:



Aaron assured me you could go through T11 almost flat out but I never got close knowing that "Gotcha" is the next corner!

Dean