redtopz

Just completed my first two ST2 races this weekend with my provisional license. It happened to be at the most difficult and unforgiving track in California, Infineon Raceway (Sears Point). I only started driving this track this year because I wanted to have enough car control skills to avoid all the concrete walls. I ran TTS and ST2 Sat and Sun. We had 3 ST2 cars signed up and all 3 of us raced on Sat. But on Sun, the firebird threw a rod spewing oil all over the track and he was done. And the Porsche was racing 2 groups and must have been too tired for the Sun race.

Here are a couple vids. The first one is time trialing in the normal track configuration. The Vimeo video is of my Sunday race using the Indy car configuration due to oil on Turn 9. This turned out to be a pleasant surprise and I really enjoyed the Indy layout. The race gets more interesting about halfway through when I try to re-pass a bmw with a very good driver. My car and tires just outgunned his.

My racecraft needs serious work, because I have no prior racing experience. I was very happy with my 3-4 day old hoosier A6's gripping all weekend long. And the Carbon Lorraine pads also worked well all weekend with zero fade and no cracked rotors (I think, haven't looked yet). My car has LG coilovers and T1 sway bars but no aero. My friend in the white mustang in the TT video also just received his rookie license so he will be joining me in ST2 next time. We need more cars up here but I think it might start growing.



ST2 Race #1

Sunday ST2 Race #2

Olitho

I will watch the video tonight, but what place did you get?

Sunday I can figure you got 1st, but what about Saturday?


Oli

stano

Nice video Bill and nice driving

Congrats on your win

Stano

redtopz

I took 1st in TTS and ST2 both days. I qualified pole on Sat and the other guys just never caught me, although I gave them some chances with crappy shifting. I accidentally went into 1st instead of 3rd in the esses and almost spun out . Then I missed 3rd again going up to the checkered flag. I thought it might be my synchros, but it turned out to just be racing jitters (nerves). I was hoping the porsche would race with me Sunday because he had pole position and it would have been a fun race. My buddy in the Mustang turns the same lap times as me so he will be fun to race also.

Thanks Stan .

RichieRichZ06

Very cool Bill. Congrats on the win and the videoa were great. It looked like Sundays race was more of a SM race then anything. Looked and sounded like a bunch of pissed off bees all over the track. Haha

Datawiz

Not bad for a rookie! Congrats.

MJM

Nice driving, especially taking the different lines to slice through all that traffic!

Who was driving the red Radical SR3?

Matt

Cloaked323

Bill you're looking good out there congratulations on the win

DarkMastyr

Very cool Bill

redtopz

Thanks guys. Racing was a lot more fun than hpde, but felt a lot riskier also. I can see why all the race cars are a little beat up . I was also harder on my car so I think I will be going through parts/consumables a lot quicker.

He was a nice older guy who was on his 4th rookie race. He's putting together a team for the 25 hours of Thunderhill and having a bunch of Daytona pro drivers on his team. He was turning laps about 5 seconds slower than me and asked me not to pass him in Turn 1 (which I have to admit was my plan LOL) and wait until after the carousel. So that's what I did. The miata in front of me had an LS1 and pulled me on the straights pretty bad. He says it's actually a ST2 car and if so I will have my work cut out. The driver is also very good and won a pro mustang challenge race from what I hear.

Dreamin

Congrats Bill

QSZOH6

Awesome Bill!

Bill32

Ah hell, I knew you'd be fast a couple, 3 years ago.
Nice, smooth driving.

Sears is my favorite, no time to relax, one of the best tracks to race on in the country.

The guy in the Radical really needs to step it up if he's goning to run the 25.

Are you coming up here to run at the end of the month????

Sidney004

Congratulations Bill, keep it up!

Olitho

Nice driving Bill. I was watcing intently towards the end to see if you would pass the white BMW. Doesn't it feel great to take the checkered!

I can see that you were very cautious on your passing as you should be at this time. That is the only reason the white Beemer got past you in the first place.

I predict in three more races you will be handing out blue paint samples....

flink

That thing's a couple seconds slower than Bill and it's in my GTS3 class! The damn thing is a good four seconds faster than my POS. It's also classed as TTB whereas I got classed into the faster TTA!

Whine.

Maybe I should just buy it from them.

63Corvette

Congratulations! Excellent driving and great video. In spite of your "cautious" passing, you're still much faster than I am

flink

Some video of Bill from the T9 stands.

This is the Sunday race in which the "Indycar kink" configuration was used, because someone drooled oil all over the regular T8/T9 route.

TS Motorsport

Awesome video, nice job!

Timmay!

Jeez Bill, you gotta post the video where my alternator was giving up the ghost. Good job on the wins, pretty dominant weekend. I'm signing up for TT in November but I'll switch over to ST2 if you make it out or if there are other entrants.