big thanks to buckeye zo6
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Burning Brakes
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big thanks to buckeye zo6
hell play it down, but Dave came out to nelsons ledges this weekend to help me,,,,i been in a rut lap time wise cant figure out how he runs 5 sec a lap faster than me (i have 1 million laps around there)...the fact that he took a half a day out of a obviously buisy life to help out a nobody like me really meant alot...he asked me to ride him around i tried my best ran as hard as i could..or would with a vip in the car...learned alot...never had anyone in my passenger seat screaming throtle-throtle-throtle!!!!Great guy!!!! looking forward to applying what i learned.....thanks again Dave
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Dave is a great guy. Nelson's is a fast track, and one of my favorites. It becomes so much better once you get it right.
They have paved sections of it, but not the whole thing at once as far as i know.
They have paved sections of it, but not the whole thing at once as far as i know.
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Burning Brakes
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ive been all over wgi,mid ohio,vir,road atlanta,beaverun...nelsons is by far my favorite track....yeh is a little bumpy but no where near as bad as youve heard....way way better than when i started with superbikes back in the early 90s......the thing is all the other tracks you can learn in a few weekends....but with nelsons it takes years!!!! you can learn to use all the little bumps,pavement transitions,and ungulations...to go faster!!! say you know a bump in the turn.... miss it with you front tire hit it with your back and us it to rotate the car....there is a little woop in the track going into the kink..the ballsiest turn ive come across period..i us the little extra downforce comming of that woop to turn the car in......the people who run the track Carrie,Scott and Fred are like family to me!! youll never find nicer people anywhere.....not to mention wicked fast 90mph apex of turn 1,103 in the shute between oak tree and the carousel, 100 at the start of the back strech and up to 140 at the kink....think ur bad run this track!!! its awsome MOST PEOPLE DIS IT BECAUSE ITS HARD TO BE FAST THERE!!!
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hell play it down, but Dave came out to nelsons ledges this weekend to help me,,,,i been in a rut lap time wise cant figure out how he runs 5 sec a lap faster than me (i have 1 million laps around there)...the fact that he took a half a day out of a obviously buisy life to help out a nobody like me really meant alot...he asked me to ride him around i tried my best ran as hard as i could..or would with a vip in the car...learned alot...never had anyone in my passenger seat screaming throtle-throtle-throtle!!!!Great guy!!!! looking forward to applying what i learned.....thanks again Dave
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Trackman, your car is very built what kind of times do you run there?
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i can get into the 12's with my stock zo6 and thats just about the limit will throw some of daves tricks in sunday and see but my tires are just about dead v710s the groves and dots are gone on 1 same set all year!!! room left sunday come out its suposed to be nice!!!!! ill be the loud tall goofy looking one in the red firesuit!!!!
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