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This Driver's Education event at
Road America
was sponsored by PCA Chicago Region.
This is my first time at this track but the first time with PCA Chicago
so I had to go in as a novice. That was fine with me as I could always
use more instruction!
Once again much of the weekend was shot due to crappy weather. It was cold and rainy much of Saturday and Sunday. I tried to go out in the rain a couple times but it was just too slippery out there to pick up any decent speed. When it was dry it still took me a while to get up to speed. My instructor gave me a few more tips on a better line, better braking zones and best of all taught me to short shift in a couple spots to set me up for some higher speeds. By Sunday afternoon it was dry again and I started to pick up some speed. My best lap was 3:08.40 with many laps consistently below 3:10. I know I could still pick up more speed, I just wish the weather was better and I had more time on the track. I was also surprised how many Boxsters there were at this event. The BMW club event I attended the previous fall didn't allow any convertibles unless they had an SCCA approved roll-bar. Most of the novices were driving Boxsters and many brought the Boxster S. The silver one pictured below was driven by Jason's instructor George. His Boxster S was pretty much stock except for tires and was one of the fastest cars on track. That just proves that skill can make up for a lot less car. I took most of these pictures with the cheaper camcorder so the quality isn't very good. |
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) My car ready to go on the first day. |
) And Jason with his 993. |
) And finally a before picture of Ferdi's 993 twin-turbo. |
) I never realized you can't see any of the motor in the twin turbos. |
) Finally brought his white Boxter to a track. |
) Goerge's Boxster S. I don't know why it's up on jack stands. |
) Turns out dark green does look pretty good on a Boxster S. |
) And Speed Yellow looks great! |
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) ŠEdmund Lacis 2000 |
) ŠEdmund Lacis 2000 |
) ŠEdmund Lacis 2000 |
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) The novices gather for the first drivers meeting. |
) The event organizers go over the rules for the weekend. |
) John shows off his spiffy new custom driving suit. |
) Caught this shot of Jason passing the start/finish line. |
) And here he is coming into corner 5. |
) Jeremy got this shot of me in corner 5 with my other camera. |
) A set up older 911 going into corner 5. |
) A 993 Twin Turbo in the hot pit lane. |
) A 993 Cab, possibly the one that lost it in the kink on Sunday. |
) My favorite car of the weekend, a fire breathing yellow Turbo S. |
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By popular demand, here is some in car video of me taking a lap around Road
America. If you download the QuickTime, please be patient, it's very large.
It could take over an hour to download over a 33.6K modem. If you're on
a slow link I highly recommend viewing the RealVideo version.
QuickTime Movie - Approx. 12.2M |
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