[Z06] any open track videos
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Here is a video I made in August 2004 at Watkins Glen. I am in my TR 03Z and the car ahead of me is James Walker (of StopTech Fame) in his TR 04Z.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzQzdI_W1RY
I have hours more but it takes a lot of time to wittle them down to the size most of the hosting services will accept.
Bill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzQzdI_W1RY
I have hours more but it takes a lot of time to wittle them down to the size most of the hosting services will accept.
Bill
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thanks alot. i love to see what the z06 can do on a race track. it is funny in the video of how easy you two are passing cars. i can not wait to get a z06. love to see people use the z06 for what it was made for.
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Here is a video I made in August 2004 at Watkins Glen. I am in my TR 03Z and the car ahead of me is James Walker (of StopTech Fame) in his TR 04Z.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzQzdI_W1RY
I have hours more but it takes a lot of time to wittle them down to the size most of the hosting services will accept.
Bill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzQzdI_W1RY
I have hours more but it takes a lot of time to wittle them down to the size most of the hosting services will accept.
Bill
a little VIR ( Virgina International Raceway ) action Gitty Up
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Don't know who was in front of you (Red C5), but their lines were way off. They were going too wide and making jerky reactions. Usually instructors teach novice students to go wide and early for safety reasons, but this is not the fastest way around the track.
http://home.comcast.net/~g5x3z06/wsb...s-General.html
http://home.comcast.net/~g5x3z06/wsb...s-General.html
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Here is a video I made in August 2004 at Watkins Glen. I am in my TR 03Z and the car ahead of me is James Walker (of StopTech Fame) in his TR 04Z.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzQzdI_W1RY
I have hours more but it takes a lot of time to wittle them down to the size most of the hosting services will accept.
Bill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzQzdI_W1RY
I have hours more but it takes a lot of time to wittle them down to the size most of the hosting services will accept.
Bill
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a little VIR ( Virgina International Raceway ) action Gitty Up[/QUOTE]
Gitty Up indeed! Thanks for the high quality video. This is the closest one I've seen to the way it actually feels inside the car. Noooo RX7... you cannot escape. 
Gitty Up indeed! Thanks for the high quality video. This is the closest one I've seen to the way it actually feels inside the car. Noooo RX7... you cannot escape.
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It was a little nerve wracking at first but when I realized he wasn't slowing any I got closer to him. When I talked to him afterwards I found out who he was and why he was tapping the brakes. His article on the StopTech web page explains why.
As for the driving I was surprised by some of the lines he took also. This was his first time as an instructor with the group and it was his first time at the Glen and in a Vette. He usually runs at tracks in the Mid West. He has a fair amount of track experience and as a brake engineer gets to test brakes in different ways. He had a student riding with him and was probably demonstrating where not to run etc. In 2005 he showed up with a complete set of StopTech brakes on the car.
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Here's a favorite... http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...89794206447645
Also, check out the video links in my signature...
Also, check out the video links in my signature...
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Here is IMHO THE BEST RIDE IN A CORVETTE
Turn up the speakers
Ride in a C5R a lap around the LemAns 24 hour ciruit
Turn up the speakers
Ride in a C5R a lap around the LemAns 24 hour ciruit
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Here's a favorite... http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...89794206447645
Also, check out the video links in my signature...
Also, check out the video links in my signature...
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St. Jude Donor '06
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How often do you guys get passed and by what? In my limited track time I have only been passed once. By an all out tube chassis chevy race truck.
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When in shape, passed by . . . Let me see . . . . . . ( whistleing and thinking....)
Not much. Other race prepped vettes, a few race preped Mustangs, on occation a Porshe Cup car, but not often, a Ruff twinn turbo Porsche on occation, but normally get this guy back 1/2 lap latter as he gets tired when pushing hard, a tubro LS6 Mazda RX7, Twin turbo Celica that hangs around Road Atlanta, Ferrari Challange cars, race prpeped Vipers, and oh yah
A DP Prototype
Driving skill and seat time is more important then mods or the car.
I know one guy with 30 some years or race experience. He drives and Audi station wagon. He can out run most anyone on any track.
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The other thing is the run group level.
Each run group is set up by approximite experince. and the jump between groups is exponetial, not linerar.
If you think your top dog in one run group, then when you get promoted you will be low man on the track and just about eveyone will pass you. Even the little miata will eat you alive in corners.
Speed is not everthing. Learning to be safe and good driving skills are. SPeed will come with smoothness and time.
When you stop TRYING to go fast and relax, you might be supprised how fast you really do run.
Each run group is set up by approximite experince. and the jump between groups is exponetial, not linerar.
If you think your top dog in one run group, then when you get promoted you will be low man on the track and just about eveyone will pass you. Even the little miata will eat you alive in corners.
Speed is not everthing. Learning to be safe and good driving skills are. SPeed will come with smoothness and time.
When you stop TRYING to go fast and relax, you might be supprised how fast you really do run.
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From: Picking on the weakest kid in the yard.
Sunday I'll be putting another 100 minutes under by belt. I can't wait! I want to film but I don't have a harness bar. Anybody use anything else as a camera mount?