Brake Fade a risk for first time tracker?

brucelidat

Yeah, we were doing counter-clockwise. in the morning session they had the track split. First timers on one shorter half and the returners on the faster half. After lunch, they had us on the whole track with us and the returner group alternating for 20 minute sessions. There are a bunch of former racecar driver instructors there and you can stop by anytime in the pit and ask for advice or for them to ride with you or drive you for a lap. Lunch was pretty good too.

The slower half of the track is tough. There are several cirves one right after another and if you don't set up right for the first, you're basically screwed for all 3. Also, the passing zone is short and right before a slow turn so it make sit tough to pass if the other driver isn't really letting off the throttle and assuming you can just zoom by them by giving you space because you hit that turn too fast then. It's also a wide double apex turn which make sit tricky also. There are much better passing zones when the whole track is combined.

The AMS pads felt fine, didn't notice a huge difference, but my main goal with them wasn't really improved braking, but just to avoid brake fade. Not sure if the stock ones would have faded but these didn't so they worked for me that day at least.

Oil temps were actually low some times. Only when i was really getting on it did it get up to like 190. Most of the time it was barely hitting 180 or below. I have a 7at, but I was driving in manual mode. Was in 4th most of the time with RPMs between 3.5k to 6k. When I started getting close to 100 mph ( I only made it up to about 110) on the straights and the RPMs were hitting 6k+ and sort of staying there I would switch into 5th, but was mostly in 4th. Don't know if it was my driving style or what, but oil temps weren't going as high as I would think would be ideal.

Outside temps were probably in the 50s. Dropped into the 30s at night and was probably 40s during the morning sessions. I was a little nervous when the instructor was driving me (it happens when you first get on the track and when they first combine the tracks full so it's at the beginning of those sessions) before the car could get up t temp and he was going fats and hard and i was saw the temps were below 180. I didn't say anything to him, though, haha. If I track again in this type of weather, I may make a smaller block of plate for the track even, maybe a 20% block off.

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