Gorgon
Well-known member
And it's High Performance Driver Education. I went to my first event with the local Porsche club this past weekend at Summit Point, and OMG! what a great time! It was so much fun really putting the car through its paces on a race track and taking the car to the limit. What I found was that the car was more capable than I was (very timid about hitting the limit) and that there is more that this car can do. It also showed me the limits of the car as designed. The stock brakes just aren't up to the task of heavy use and the seats offer the worst support ever. My knee was used more often than not to support me around turns and my instructor worked overtime to keep out of my lap. I was also surprised at how much a Z51 suspension car will roll on the track as compared to what you see on the road. It was real bad but eventually as my driving improves I will look to upgrade the sway bars, etc. The new Goodyear GS-D3's worked very well for the event. The first day or so the track was wet and these tires worked very well. Very pleased with the wet and dry performance.
It was fun running with the Porsche group, great guys, very helpful. There's always some jabbing at the Corvette driver, but I had a couple other students from my class that commented on how they enjoyed watching my car work through the curves and how planted it looked.
This was the last event of the season and now I have a list of stuff for Santa to bring me for next season. Have you ever seen so much brake dust generated in two days?
Leon
It was fun running with the Porsche group, great guys, very helpful. There's always some jabbing at the Corvette driver, but I had a couple other students from my class that commented on how they enjoyed watching my car work through the curves and how planted it looked.
This was the last event of the season and now I have a list of stuff for Santa to bring me for next season. Have you ever seen so much brake dust generated in two days?
Leon