On 10/10/2011 10:05 PM, David Savage wrote:
On 11/10/2011, Ken Waller<[email protected]> wrote:
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
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From: "Larry Colen"<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: OT - When a NASCAR champ meets Mt Panorama in a V8 Supercar
On Oct 10, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Philip Northeast wrote:
On 11/10/11 5:55 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
The bit I saw on you tube was heavily edited as the corners were not
shown in sequence and some were repeated - sort of like the movie Bullet.
Probably, the best comments from each of several laps.
I was led to believe the clip shown on speed during the live broadcast was a
full lap - didn't appear to be edited.
It was pretty poorly edited footage from at least 2 laps.
Here is couple of on board lap videos worth watching:
<http://youtu.be/juayGkTKYEo>
and Jenson Button in an F1 car:
<http://youtu.be/x4XVF3jJL5Q>
I pee'ed myself a little watching that second one.
OK, from the sublime to the ridiculous. In car videos from an open track
day/drivcng chool. An X on the window means the car is being driven by
an instructor. Jasmine, my MG is nearly stock, her motor puts about 75
HP to the ground (stock would be 65), she has the paddy hopkirk swaybar
kit and a rollcage.
I'm driving my MGBGT at Thudnerhill explaining things to my student
riding with me. My friend Scott is in his GTI, in frotn of me at the
start of the video:
http://www.red4est.com/jasvids/thunderhill_lead_follow_colen.asf
This is in car video, me driving my MGBGT at Thunderhill:
http://www.red4est.com/jasvids/thunderhilll_larry_colen.asf
This is Scott Neville following me at Thunderhill, quite possibly the
same lap.
http://www.red4est.com/jasvids/thunderhill_apr_2003.asf
We're running the configuration of thunderhill that doesn't go up the
hill at turn 5, which is a shame, because it's a lot of fun. At the top
of the hill, there is a 90 degree left turn (as in zero inside radius)
coming down to an off camber right hand turn. For reference, a 2:22 lap
at thunderhill is about 20 seconds off the pace for Spec Miata.
There are a few vids towards the bottom of this page:
http://red4est.com/miata/
This one:
http://www.red4est.com/miata/crash040425/collected.avi
goes through the other configuration of the aforementioned turn, but you
really can't appreciate it fully on video. This turn, by the way is a
lot more challenging and exciting than the corkscrew. Going into the
corkscrew you have plenty of landmarks to choose your line with. Going
through the crow's nest, there's a hill about half a mile away that you
can use to line yourself up, and once you crest the hill, there's a
garage over there too, but mostly you just see sky, and the flagger who
should tell you if anything is wrong.
DS
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