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Well my track day yesterday was pretty successful. I also have one scheduled for next Sunday as well. It'd been over a month since the last time I'd been on track and since then they'd repaved part of it and the course had very slightly changed. On my 2nd lap of my very first session I lost my balls exiting turn 2 where they'd started repaving because I thought I was going to overshoot track out and I did the worst thing possible and lifted resulting in a spin and me going off-track. Good news is that I didn't hit anything and my car was fine and I was able to continue the remaining sessions of the day.
My first spin and off-track incident and it took me this long, so I was a bit embarrassed since I thought I was already past that and I'm always very smooth and careful with my steering. If I'd kept in the accelerator I would have made the turn. That turn continued to plague me for the entire first session, resulting in my average time on my first session being a full 3 seconds slower than my average time from my last time on track. I was able to get it together in my second session and return to an average time that matched my previous average, but for the whole day that was the best I ended up doing.
I'm hoping that having two track days only a week apart will help me to retain my feel of the rhythm of the track better and I can eek out at least another second off my average lap time next Sunday.
Also, Harry's Lap Timer failed to record video again, however this time I /explicitly/ know I enabled it. I'm not sure what happened. I do have video from my dash cam this time around since I had hardwired it to get rid of loose power connection that was an issue last time I was on track. I'm still trying to figure out how to get things working in Dashware to output a video with overlay. Once I do I'll embed one here from YouTube of me doing a spin.
The tire pyrometer was very helpful, I found out I was overpressure for the optimal point on my tires by around 1-1.5 psi depending on the tire. I waited 3 hours after my last session to let the tires cool and took a cold pressure reading and noted it, so I can start from the same cold pressures next Sunday and then use the pyrometer to adjust. I'm hoping that'll get me closer to optimal to start off with. I also still have tread left on these, so I'll be going one more track day on these Michelin's but I will say they had several moments yesterday where my braking distances didn't feel right and I think they're underperforming how they were in the beginning by quite a lot, especially on braking. I'm looking forward to getting the AD08Rs on and then taking it back to the track to see if I can pick up a second or so off grippier tires.
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