April 5-6, 2014 THSCC HPDE at VIR-N - Registration now open!

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2014 12:46 pm

It felt a lot smoother and stickier to me when I was there a couple of weeks ago at a NASA event.

Bill Aycock · **Joined:** Wed Sep 26, 2012 1:55 pm **Posts:** 117

What is the name of the company that was taking photos this weekend?

TomFreeman · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:42 am

F&S Enterprises is the company. I'd send the link, but I'm on my phone at the moment. F&S does a good job with the photos.

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:06 am

Pics from the weekend:

http://store.fandsenterprises.com/index ... 225#page=1

Andrew Jonell · **Joined:** Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:43 pm **Posts:** 1350

It was a good weekend and had a good time, thanks track crew.

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2014 1:34 pm

Andrew Jonell wrote:

It was a good weekend and had a good time, thanks track crew.

Ditto!

Here's a video clip of Stephen and myself in our dueling S197s.

Andrew Jonell · **Joined:** Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:43 pm **Posts:** 1350

I guess I should add mine, as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_0HbWOrmKM

Outside of me getting stopped up near the end (there's no gesticulations, I promise), the highlight of this session was the brake check by the E46 between T5 and T5a @ 3:20ish in the video.

Cash Davidson · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2014 3:33 pm

Awesome event, perfect weather! Couldn't believe how good the car was. First time on North Course - loved it!

Best lap - check out the reaction on the next two cars ahead of me as they spot me coming in their rearview mirrors (at least that's the story I'm tellin') :lol:

http://youtu.be/VJEpQgto5JE

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2014 3:42 pm

Andrew Jonell wrote:

I guess I should add mine, as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_0HbWOrmKM

Outside of me getting stopped up near the end (there's no gesticulations, I promise), the highlight of this session was the brake check by the E46 between T5 and T5a @ 3:20ish in the video.

Nice driving Andrew, but your finger gesture in T17 was less than sportsman like.

Andrew Jonell · **Joined:** Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:43 pm **Posts:** 1350

Yeah, I know. It was really frustrating to have it seem like I was going to break into the 1:48s, and then have to put on the brakes for a lap.

Scott Johnson · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:01 pm

Anyone who used their card at VIR this weekend get a bunch of fraudulent charges today?

I'm guessing it's totally unrelated, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

Andrew Jonell · **Joined:** Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:43 pm **Posts:** 1350

I only have the gas for Saturday, Sunday's gas hasn't posted yet.

Good luck, Scott.

Patrice Bousquet · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:14 pm

Gas of yesterday and the Oak tree tavern of Saturday is pending. No charge for the Lodge yet.

Here the video I just posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_debqkzZNBc

JamesMilko · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:22 pm

Vincent Keene wrote:

Andrew Jonell wrote:

I guess I should add mine, as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_0HbWOrmKM

Outside of me getting stopped up near the end (there's no gesticulations, I promise), the highlight of this session was the brake check by the E46 between T5 and T5a @ 3:20ish in the video.

Nice driving Andrew, but your finger gesture in T17 was less than sportsman like.

I'm pretty sure I had some flailing of arms on Saturday while behind some cars that seemed to forget they were at a road course, not a 1/4 mi dragstrip. What I don't get though is that the people that hold me up almost never come and ask about what happened. Whenever I feel like I may have held someone up I always go and find them in the paddock and make sure I didn't, so if I did know that I need to be more generous with signals in the future. After one session I ended up talking to 2 people who I knew were faster than me and were behind me for a few laps before they passed. One was feeling a bit sick and was holding back, the other was working on LFB. Also, ouch that they had no problem keeping up while driving conservatively.

But really awesome event. Weather was perfect, track was near perfect. Only one incident affected blue group and I want to say extra time was tacked onto the end of the run to make up for it. And I can say, for the first time since 2012, that I was out for every session in a weekend for the whole session.

And I made it into the 1:49s, last time I was at VIR-N I was ~1:56 iirc. It was nice to have a lot of time in an event to really get back in the swing and find some of the terrible things I'm doing.

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:36 pm

I went back and looked at my old times; my previous best at VIR-N was 1:56.08 and I had a couple of 1:53's on Sunday. Ricky has the data logger, so I don't know my exact times, but I'm pretty sure I had a low 1:53 in there.

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