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Originally Posted by Sleepless
Personally I'd stick with the GS. Both of the last two gens are IMO the best Vettes to track. I'd cut my track days to keep the costs down and stick with it. It's a tough car to beat.
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Oh, I'm keeping it! It's not going anywhere. But for the cost of a wing, shark bar, harness and a pair of seats, I can buy the FRS.
It's an incredible car, and it's a blast to drive 4-5x a year. But I want to drive every other weekend. I'm paying for the membership every month- I'm going to use it. I want to get better. I don't want to wreck a $70k car. I don't want to run a nice car into the ground either. If I didn't have the GS, no chance I'd be considering a 200hp track car (I'd also have a lot more money). But when you have it and can take it out for a session whenever you want, having a low cost, fun car you can learn on is the ticket.
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Originally Posted by Code Monkey
A twin will make you a tough driver to beat.  |
I learn more and more about a track I've done hundreds laps at in my Miata than I ever thought possible. Learning curve is way faster. I just want to have more fun with my friends out there. It's not fun when you're 15-20 seconds slower than everyone.
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Originally Posted by CSG Mike
Funny hearing this from someone with a car that I believe to be putting up a pretty good fight to those vettes!
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Heh, I've trouble shaking some Miatas at tighter tracks and tracks I'm not familiar with. But I'm typically hunting down faster cars. I can't think of any cars that have really passed me other than a McLaren and a GT3RS. I remember eating a GTR's lunch in the rain one track day. And it all comes from beating the piss out of a Miata.
Here I am at Spring Mountain advanced driving school thing for corvette owners. I'm in a Z51 (not a GS) chasing a guy who competatively races in a Z07 (Carbon ceramic brakes, much wider tires, big downforce, steeper gears and 200hp on me)
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD9ROYC4l0k[/ame]
(the last lap gets interesting)
He never does shake me. Instructors said they were all watching me hunt him down.
He was "that guy" in the class that would ask questions that were really just him telling a story and not a question and complain about the car not being set up right and demanding slicks (we all ran PSS)
In the end, his fastest lap was like 0.2 sec faster than my fastest, and the car was a full 4-6 seconds faster than mine (depending on which instructor you ask) when driven by instructors.
God, watching that video makes me want to go back. Leaving so much time on the table in some turns. I bet I have another second with a few simple corrections. $3500 though. Which isn't terrible considering I get instruction, a world class track and probably 5 hours of track time ($2-2.5k in consumables alone for me in my car).