Woohoo...found a picture! I'm driving the Green Neon chasing down the Civic after passing the Miata.

Looks like you missed your apex.

Uber cool!
I bet an in-cockpit sound transmission would simply go, "WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

Nah, he's clearly late-apexing that one to get a better run out of it than the Civ, that will run out of track and will have to lift. The Miata has it all wrong.

He missed it because he was passing that car.

Doh, He missed it 'cause he passed out.

It WAS a driver's school you know...lol. If I recall that session, I had passed the red Miata already and was working over the girl in the Civic...and possibly passed her on the straight that followed this corner.

you got passed by a girl?

Lol, yeah, on the first day of the school when I was still very nervous and cautious. We had some good little battles and went back and forth a number of times. I talked to her on a forum and found she has a good amount of pics from the school.

Here's a couple more she had of the same corner.



And the next lap...I already made the pass and am outta there.





Here's my first attempt (testing the waters) to dive in deep to make the pass at T1. I think I failed this time, but was successful the next lap. She's in the Civic, I'm in the Green Neon. These were taken all at the same time in a matter of a couple seconds.












Notice all the corner workers watching the awesome battle take place...they are in awe! Errr...or they're just waiting for us to wreck each other out and rescue us.

Wow...nice Weasy...

that second pic looks like you hit the nitrous or went into stealth mode when you compare it to the one above it.

I'm guessing that was a different lap..(After you passed her)

Mike

Yeah Mike, the second pic is the very next lap and I was already long gone. I passed her at the next corner after the next straightaway. Apex goof or not I was setting up the pass by drifting wide a bit and staying on the right for the next corner after the straight. By the 2nd pic I couldn't even see the Civic or Miata in my mirrors anymore.

lol, ghost car

Nice pics Weas, looks like fun!

Reminds me a little of Billzilla's pics from racing in Germany.

Great stuff WK!

Way to go Weas.

I was thinking of how good that Neon would look in SimHQ colors, albeit please not the rainbow warriors paint scheme

I'm actually thinking of getting a couple SimHQ Motorsports decals made up to put on the blue Neon we'll be running for the 24 hour event in August. Plus I still need to buy a driver suit (I borrowed my friends for the weekend) and am thinking of getting a patch made up for it too. That should look good for my picture on the podium with the champagne...


...after the winners leave the track.

Awesome pics, WK. Man, I think you are planting a bug that will get a lot of us wanting to do a driving school too.

Very cool pics. I am soooo jealous. I have been wanting to do a drivers school ever since going to Mid Ohio last year and learning that there was such a thing. Awesome!!

I'm hoping to maybe run at Mid Ohio this year. I have to do two regional races to turn in my Novice Permit for a regional license.

*cough*Belding*cough* Can't wait to see you race.

Lol Envy. Too bad the Gratten race is this weekend...and I'll be in Pennsylvania visiting my mother in law for the weekend.

WK: With the prior threads going off to cyber-never-land, when's your endurance event again?

22-24 August is "The Longest Day of Nelson" 24 hour endurance race at Nelson Ledges, Ohio (near Younstown). So far we have three confirmed drivers, another who's dragging his feet to get his licensing stuff squared away, and another who's like me...has a Novice Permit and needs two races before Nelson (he also drives a Neon in the Indy Region).

http://www.nelsonledges.com/LONGESTDAY.aspx

To get my stuff squared away I'll be running my first ever real race in Indianapolis at O'Reilly Raceway Park (used to be IRP) on 5 July. It's a special event hour long race set up because it's a leap year...lol. That will get one of my two races under my belt, plus get some endurance time in the car rather than the 25 minute sprints we ran at my school.

http://indyscca.org/RaceFiles/entries/2008/Enduro%20Poster.pdf

And then I'll be running a double regional event (two races) 26-27 July at Nelson Ledges, Ohio...using it as a required second race for my Regional License, and getting much needed track time at Nelson before the enduro in August.

When I checked at NoGrip earlier today, I could have sworn there was a brand new listing for a Nelson Ledges conversion for GTR2. When I checked back later, it was gone.

I remembered the name of the person who'd converted it - an easy name to remember. Did a quick search, and found THIS

Yeah, I did a search a couple weeks ago and found that. The track mod isn't too bad, so hopefully it'll help out a bit.

Now if somebody would do ORP/IRP road course (they have the ORP roundy round)...