Mosport September 20 Lunch time Pace laps
 

Hey everyone, I have been asked by BEMC if we want to do another lunch time lapping session Sunday Sept 20 behind a pace car on the big track. The money raised would go to the Terry Fox Foundation and that is their charity of the weekend. The donation would be $20.00 and you would be guaranteed 20 minutes on track. They approached me at Mosport last weekend and I told them I would ask. We need 40-50 cars all together to make it work, I will ask the RX7, Mazda 6 and Protege clubs as they supported Mazdaspeed North. Please start a sign up list if your interested.

I had a great time in the spring so I'll be the first on the list.

1. Buggy

May 20 or Sept 20?

I'm in if schedule permits.

Al's had a brain cramp. It is September 20th. You should all come out as my RX7 will be out running in GT4 (and maybe the Cougar if I can get another trailer arranged), Al may have 2 cars out (1st and 2nd Gen cars) and I am certain there will be at least 4 other Mazdas out there. It will be a great weekend as there will be a 3 Hour race on Saturday and 20 minute races as well on Saturday and Sunday.

Eric

love to come if I have time,"work" is the only thing that would stop me

bump! how come theres not more interest in this! this is an awesome chance to go out on a world class race track for few fun laps and get to chill at the races all day simply for a small donation to a good cause. come on people!

i would love to come. what time of the day would this be happening?

You need to be there no later than 1100am I will post details shortly, need to know how many rx7's are coming though!

I have 7 so far, but not all rx-7 owners. Is that ok? We will be there for 11:00 also.

Seems like not much 7's are going this time again!!

I will be going. Having never been there is there bleachers? I will be bringing my two boyz with me :)

I'm not going to be able to make it this time, some other things have come up. I wish I could though I had a fantastic time in the spring.

i wish i could make it but im in london for school

1rst thing. I was the only RX7 that showed up. I think there was 21 RX8s. Talk a bout being the black sheep in the group!

I didn't know what to expect since I had never been to an event like this but it was a blast. I thought we would be doing a 50km/hr cruise behind a pace car, was I ever wrong!

So here's my story.....

We are lined up to go out on the track and we are standing outside our cars. A small group of us are talking and one guy says the last time he was here there was an 8 car pile up so that's why he's at the back of the pack. Good idea I said. Its a long walk home with my family! The guy goes on to say there is a few blind turns and you need to know the lines. Ummm this is not what I thought we were doing lol.

So we head out and I'm staying way back from the guy in front of me. No way do I want to get piled up! I can't believe how fast people are given it!!!

So we make a few turns and I see one of the RX8 pulling off to the side with a ton of smoke coming out of the hood. Apparently it blew up!!!

Feeling a bit more comfortable I start to increase the speed a bit (bad idea I still have no idea where I'm going lol ). I thought I had "the line" but I clearly didn't cuz my two right tires went a bit off the track. Just enough to get my tires in the grass :(

On I go.... I can see I can close the distance on the straights with the car in front of me which I am happy with considering my car is not tuned and I don't really have a secondary ( I had to keep pushing in my clutch to get the revs below 3000 so it would transition again ). That should be resolved when I get my BNRs and new solenoids.

On we go. Continue to close the gap ( it was damn huge when I started out cuz I didn't want to get hit!). Rounding another turned just in time to see an RX8 spinning out!!

The lead car pulls us all off to tell us that we need to stay closer together ( no chance!!). I didn't go back out after the speach cuz I ran out of meth and I don't want to blow up like the RX8 did.

Great time, I only wish I had better tires, suspension, secondary turbo, and knew what I was doing lol.

Double post

So people were spinning out doing pace laps following each other? :dunno:

thewird

Yea one RX8 spun right out and like I said I clipped the grass :(

We were moving pretty good. 170+
I know that's not fast when you are use to the track and have a decent suspension but it was for the virgin racer :)

Oh yah forgot to mention another RX8 over heated and had to come off.

All in all it was a blast! I can certainly see how you guys can get in to it.

You need to come one day when I go out so you can see what fast is (without spinning out :)) and learn what the line is like. 240+ on the back stretch.

Looks like it was an eventful day and you guys had some fun.

thewird

I think I could get to 190-200 with the secondary. 240+ I might pee a little on the seat :)

I've hit my governor just before I break for 8 at 255 kph, and in other cars I've reached a fraction higher in top speed.

After meeting a few rx8 guys I went over to their site. Looks like they are planning an event @ Shannonville.

http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=182440

Somebody from here needs to represent the 7 :)

I might go but I definitely wont be leading the pack.

Meh, I'm going to be a Cayuga that day. Plus, I don't really like the Fabi. Pro or Long only please :)

thewird

nice write up double J. the rx8 that "blew up" actually just chucked a belt. that caused the car to get really hot really fast. the pressure went up enough that the rad cap popped and doused everything, and i mean everything in coolant.

all in all, a really fun day, but there was quite a lot of drama compared to when this happened in may. first off, we had a nice drivers meeting and position was discussed. we all agreed that more experienced drivers would go first and we (the regulars that all track together) would try and organize it that way. the most experienced bunch had our order and the others were to pull in AFTER where ever they felt comfortable. well that all went to shit 2 seconds after people got in their cars. it was absolute madness. I was 1 inch behind Jays car when we were pulling out. all of a sudden like 5 cars cut infront of me before we got to the grid.

whatever, i tried to make the best of it, and with mike from the autotrader filming everythign from teh car behind me i tired a little to give a good show. my brakes got a little soft so i backed right off, and when Al pulled us into the pits i decided to not go back out in my car. After the last track day i didnt flush my brake fluid like i normally do. Also, last track day i wasnt doing cool down laps (pissed off about the rain, im sure you remember the wird) so im sure that contributed to it as well. also the lack of pad lining left...recipe for a mushy pedal i supose. haha.

that being said i still had a blast. I got to spend the second half in Als pace car with him driving, showing off as usually. lol.

"and this is how you take turn 5. downshift, brake, wipers on..." lol

thanks again Al. Hopefully we didnt screw this one up so badly that we might be able to do it again next year...hopefully. lol

What brake fluid are you using and pads? I only flush my brake fluid once a year and bleed the brakes somewhere in the middle of the season. And I go to over 10 track days per season and lots of mileage, 26,000 km so far this year :)

thewird

Ya I would love to see the line while somebody else was driving. Just a quick comparison I watched some of the videos on youtube lol. WOW was I doing it wrong! I think I am used to video games or something. You know you hold down the gas button right till the last second, stay close to the turn, hammer the brakes and then the gas right away. Usually in a game you get a nice Tokyo drift. Some how this was clearly ineffective in real life :)

That was clearly the best $20 I have ever spent in my life!

Thanks Al for setting this up.