Sebring Testing per Johnny O'
Thread Starter
Drifting
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 1,749
Likes: 0
From: Northeast Ohio
Sebring Testing per Johnny O'
Posted this on Autocross and Road Racing in the Forum. There may be some who don't frequent that Forum, but might still be interested in this info.
Found this on www.johnnyoconnell.com:
"Sebring Testing
Added 11/15/06
As I write this we are Sebring doing testing for next season. Every year we come down here before Thanksgiving, and begin to work on both tires and chassis for the following year. Then during the month of December the team goes back, looks over the cars and the ton of data collected, and then when we return we always have a car that’s even more speedy.
We’re running our new cars, and they have a great feel to them. Each year there are very small subtle changes made that improve the car. It’s funny in that it seems the sanctioning bodies are always trying to slow us down, but somehow or another we find ways of remaining fast.
One really cool thing I did was tow my jet ski’s down with me, and before the test I went to Ft. Myers and did a little bit of running on the faster one around Sanibel Island. Totally the coolest thing as about half an hour into my ride I saw a few dolphins so I stopped…and there must have been about 20 in the area. It was extremely neat to watch, and once about 15 yards away one totally went airborne. I was trying to take pictures with my cell phone, but sadly it wasn’t quick enough to catch. Still it was a great time.
The next few weeks I’m busy doing lots of cool Corvette stuff. Both on the racing and production side. I’ve also begun working on getting a few driving events set up like we did last year at Carolina Motorsports Park. I’m most likely going to open it up to other cars…like Ferrari’s and Porsches and stuff…so that we can see who really has what !! I know that all that attended Corvette Camp had a great time and learned a lot, so if you’re interested keep watching the site, and we’ll get information out to you as we get plans firmed up.
Johnny O "
Found this on www.johnnyoconnell.com:
"Sebring Testing
Added 11/15/06
As I write this we are Sebring doing testing for next season. Every year we come down here before Thanksgiving, and begin to work on both tires and chassis for the following year. Then during the month of December the team goes back, looks over the cars and the ton of data collected, and then when we return we always have a car that’s even more speedy.
We’re running our new cars, and they have a great feel to them. Each year there are very small subtle changes made that improve the car. It’s funny in that it seems the sanctioning bodies are always trying to slow us down, but somehow or another we find ways of remaining fast.
One really cool thing I did was tow my jet ski’s down with me, and before the test I went to Ft. Myers and did a little bit of running on the faster one around Sanibel Island. Totally the coolest thing as about half an hour into my ride I saw a few dolphins so I stopped…and there must have been about 20 in the area. It was extremely neat to watch, and once about 15 yards away one totally went airborne. I was trying to take pictures with my cell phone, but sadly it wasn’t quick enough to catch. Still it was a great time.
The next few weeks I’m busy doing lots of cool Corvette stuff. Both on the racing and production side. I’ve also begun working on getting a few driving events set up like we did last year at Carolina Motorsports Park. I’m most likely going to open it up to other cars…like Ferrari’s and Porsches and stuff…so that we can see who really has what !! I know that all that attended Corvette Camp had a great time and learned a lot, so if you’re interested keep watching the site, and we’ll get information out to you as we get plans firmed up.
Johnny O "
