NARRA Road America May 2012 USTTC Recap - Pics and Video

[Viperless]

What a fantastic weekend! It was my first time at RA as a driver and it was everything and more than I expected. I ran in the USTTC (time trials) group. We had 17 competitors on Saturday and 16 on Sunday. We also had cars from the HPDE Solo classes in our run group which made things interesting at times. My weekend nearly ended before it began as you'll see in the video. The damage was only cosmetic thankfully. Big thank you to David Pintaric's crew from Kryderacing who checked my alignment and the guys at Archer Racing who dismounted my left front tire to clean the rocks out of the bead. Took the car out for an ops check and everything seemed fine. Tommy Archer got in the car and promptly ran a couple back to back 2:21's and verified there was nothing wrong with the car, just the driver. It was amazing to see what the car could do in the hands of a pro like Tommy. Wow. Just wow.

I was able to shake off Friday's faux pas and reached the top spot in TTU and overall both Saturday and Sunday.

Anyways, hope you enjoy the video. Martin Scorsese I'm not.


NARRA press release:

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact...qikKfrXexEhfoQhFLtzuq9d6-PRztJhTB4j4A_slc51E=



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ObvfRKLvWo&feature=youtu.be

 

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[Viperless]

More pics on NARRA's Facebook page:


Friday:


http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150969702193453.478366.367410898452&type=3


Saturday:


http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150969809703453.478375.367410898452&type=3


Sunday:


http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150972376493453.478614.367410898452&type=3

 

[Magnus_]

Great vid Keith.

I liked how you put in all the names of the drivers on track etc..

118 through the kink is pretty darn quick.

 

[Viperless]

Thanks Keith. Tried to get everyone in there.

I don't understand why everyone gets so whipped up about the kink....LOL j/k

 

[3whitevipers]

Those pictures are great--thanks for posting--Dave

 

[bluesrt]

what pressures do you start with cold there and adjust to hot?

 

[Viperless]

25-26 cold but I have to let air out a couple times to maintain the hot psi. I just can't bring myself to run the tires less than 25psi cold. I know some do but I worry about what it does to the side walls.

 

[Magnus_]

What do you run the R100's hot at?

In the last session I put on the R100's for the first time ever. Istarted at 24 cold and they got up to 28-29 hot but they were NOT working at all. I didn't bust out the pyrometer but I'd imagine the tire was under inflated with a poor contact patch. I was assuming they would raise a little more in pressure to around 34-36.

The 295/345-18 R6's work very well at 36-38 hot.

 

[Viperless]

What do you run the R100's hot at?

In the last session I put on the R100's for the first time ever. Istarted at 24 cold and they got up to 28-29 hot but they were NOT working at all. I didn't bust out the pyrometer but I'd imagine the tire was under inflated with a poor contact patch. I was assuming they would raise a little more in pressure to around 34-36.

The 295/345-18 R6's work very well at 36-38 hot.

Were they inflated with nitrogen? My air pressures will go up at least 10psi from cold. Especially the rears.

I was shooting for 32 hot with the R100's.

 

[DrumrBoy]

Thanks for the pix....David's car - ouch.....

 

[bluestreak]

Any of you Road America attendees going to VIR?

 

[Magnus_]

I plan to.

- Keith

 

[Viperless]

I'd love to but it's just not in the budget.

 

[DrumrBoy]

Great track....too far for me this summer. Have a good run there!

 

[345s-bspinnin]

Wow Keith...great driving, great pictures, and great video.

 

[Mopar Boy]

Very nice!

Threads like this don't help my bad urge to start racing.

 

[Viperless]

Wow Keith...great driving, great pictures, and great video.

Thanks Andres!

Very nice!

Threads like this don't help my bad urge to start racing.

Resistance is futile.

 

[Paul Scharf]

Hey everyone!

If you check out our facebook page, we have lots of pictures of David's car in front of our office. Again, we are so grateful that David walked away from this crash unharmed!

Here's the link:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Don-Scharf-Automotive-Inc/155301727841992?sk=photos