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Many who didn't attend the NCM event may not be checking that thread so I figured I'd post here.

Here's a video of Mcar00 (Mike C in his black C6 Z06) and myself running VIR with the NCM on Tuesday. Lainey Landstra was riding shotgun and she was fearless.


It was the instructor session (Red) and we had fun running with a lot of great drivers. Mcar00 is lightning fast and very smooth. I thought he hooked onto me with a trailer hitch as I couldn't shake him, he was superior!

Mike C has in car video as well and will post it up as well.

It was great seeing everybody, once a year isn't enough for such a great group of people!









Mike

talon90

Great run. I was up on the flag tower at the start finish line when you were running these laps and it would shudder everytime you came by. Your car is simply amazing Mike!

Like I told you at the event, thanks for all of your help. It was great to finally meet you in person.

Paul (NCM)

Everett Ogilvie

Cool video, track looks great, Beast sounds awesome. Think I could hear your alternator starting to make a little noise......

JDIllon

Great job, MIKE & MIKE, you boys play nice together. Looks like lots of fun, sorry I was not there to see it. I had to start my 13 hour drive home before you went out. Great run! JD

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Paul,

Thanks, funny thing is I have never heard it as I'm always inside. It would be great if somebody could post a short clip of the fly bys.

Every time I saw you, you were working feverishly without complaint (at least publicly lol) to make this event great for everyone. I was happy to help out and appreciate you crawling into the trailer upside down to retrieve all the cones so I could set up the skid pad.



Mike

mcar00

Mike I think you should retitle the video something like,"Two Fast Cars Driven by a Couple of Hacks"!!

I had a blast running with you. Thanks for posting the video as my car is so damn loud I couldn't hear the Holinger Sequential banging through the gears while we were out there and I didn't want to miss that. Great fun! Hope we get to do it again next year.

Timz06

Lookin good Mike, BTW, I think your speedo is broken!

Glennm27

Mike,
I was up there on the starters stand with Paul. Check these out.
Taken with a small digital but better than nothing...

Glenn

A couple Newlander Fly-Bys at the Start/Finish line, VIR June 28, 2011

Glennm27

Mike
You had me laughing once in that session that Lainey was with you. You came out of the Hog Pen and entering the front straight with two cars ahead of you running side by side and there's you coming up behind them with your lights flashing...

Those guys stepped aside in a hurry......

Yvonne was riding in Steve's car during that same session. It was her first time around the track and she loved it, I mean LOVED it. She can't wait until next year....

talon90

Mike,

I'd do it again tomorrow. I was having a blast and I wouldn't dream of complaining (even privately). Everyone involved was working so hard to try to make sure that everything went off as planned. Not sure what made me hop up in the trailer like that but it made sense at the time. I think I must have decided it was better to do that then to unload the entire trailer at that point to get to them. I think picking them up went a lot smoother. It was nice of the VIR guy to give me a hand with his golf cart.

It looks like Glenn has you covered on a couple of fly-by's and I'm glad because I was a little awestruck by the car and was too busy watching and couldn't get my brain to work to record it.

I'll see you next year and I'll make it a point to get some footage for you.

Paul

Everett Ogilvie

Man, that thing is ............... well, a Beast.

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I'll gladly accept the hack title but you my friend brought game!

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Glenn,

Thank you!

If Yvonne loved it, that's a testament to Steve Landstra driving smooth, which he does.

Yvonne and Lainey: Girls gone fast!


Mike

V8 Juice

Somewhere, south of Chicago, in a huge cave lives a Beast that is as fierce as a rodeo bronco and is seldom ridden. But occasionally one man mounts the Beast and the crowd gathers to see if the Beast can be controlled. With its identifying roar and the snarl of a shiftless change of pace we first hear and then see the black and yellow creature run by us in a lightning flash, devouring all lesser things in its path like so many M & M candies. As fast as we can turn our heads back we hear the creature's mighty roar coming down Hog Pen and at us again and wonder if the rider can keep the Beast on the path. With smoke and steam, emitting an odor of burnt oil on a machine run hard and fast, the smell of melting rubber fusing with gravel and sand and the sound of metal flexing and rippling back into its dormant state, the rider brings the conquered creature back to the paddock, twists out from the resting beauty and is revealed as a humble man simply known as everyone's best friend. Thanks for the show, Mike!!!

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Tim,

Ha,

I actually have 4 speedos, one for each wheel sensor that I can access in my dash display. I never look at speed while driving anyway, just data acquisition afterwards to see how awful I was.

Once my T/C system is finally calibrated I will have speed and rpm displayed in the video playback.

Blue Lightening

That's a great video. Thanks for posting.

AutobahnRacer

oh, good god man

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Art,

Nice prose! When is your book coming out?

Great to see #10 and you out there ripping it up as well!

Mike

V8 Juice

I can't be responsible for anything I write after 11:00 PM and 2 beers!
As ex-Prez Bush self-deprecatingly answers when asked what people think about his book: "Write a book? Hell, some people don't think I can read a book!"

redtopz

Nice vid. Your car sounds awesome!