Weekend at Buttonwillow Raceway

June 9, 2011

My first time at Buttonwillow was such a blast! Over the course of 2 days there it has easily become my favorite track so far. It’s certainly a little safer to push the car to the limits here than at Thunderhill or Laguna Seca. There’s a lot more flat runoff on most of the corners.

Laguna in the Wet

June 9, 2011

My first ever track day in the pouring rain and I spin the car in between T4 and T5. It’s sheer luck that I didn’t make contact with any walls. If you’re curious what happened, the rear tires received a small bump in power as I reached the vtec engagement point — this caused the rear end to come out coming out of T4. Tires were Dunlop Direzza Z1 Star-specs at nearly full tread height front and back however standing water covered most of the track. That track session was cancelled the lap after I brought the car back in due to standing water.

New Blog Focus

June 9, 2011

Feel like blogging again, this time I’ll be writing about road cycling, automotive track days, food and technology.

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