yea but i wasnt being 100% serious with my comment just felt like making a funny option comment to him. trust me after many times on the dragon opposing idiots on bikes is literally the biggest concern. the pouring rain and traction were less of a concern than bikers leaning was over the center line.

sadly a PA man was killed the day following zdyaz on the dragon. he lost control of his bike in a turn and went head on with a car. died on the scene i believe the article read.

Autocross.

Track days, Mid-Atlantic has VIR, Summit Point etc. For money you can go to SCCA and get a day of training. Checkout

The Tire Rack SCCA Starting Line school is a partnership between the Sports Car Club of America and Tire Rack to give automotive enthusiasts a professional, all-inclusive entry into the world of performance driving.

and

Performance Driving eXperience and Time Trials

Or NASA (National Auto Sport Association) has something similar. These guys will get you started. There are lots of track experience schools around as well. I will be doing the same.

Good luck.

i would love to try VIR and get one of those sick hotel/lodge rooms or whatever with its own garage and your balcony/deck over looks the track.

sadly that would probably be very expensive plus the track time cost and brake upgrades to be safe for high speed braking like that.

i wonder what a total cost for that would be....research time! lol

Yup, should be a group buy. Or a MAZOC buy.

i mean if there's some interest and some research on prices and dates i could be interested myself....pending price and dates of course. summer is filling up fast for me and not a lot of vaca time free at the moment.

My summer is booked into the fall. Maybe planning out to next summer eh? Maybe by than I can put some nicer brake pads and fluid so I can stay on track for more than a lap or two.

JPkirk thank you for the info! I'm very interested in running auto x, just a lot of research to do first!

I wondered why I couldn't find you. :P

I LOVED those flares! Some of the Z's in Japan had those last fall.


Best ZDayZ ever despite the worst weather ever. My disappointment in not meeting you all is a standard feature now though. :)

Edit: My car is so ugly Tony @ FI came up to me to say "I've never seen my exhaust look so bad!"

Next year I'm gonna have to party with you guys at least one night.

Just to clarify...

While seat time is more effective than any bolt-on part, it's not "instant". Like most sports, it takes time and practice to develop the mental "sub-routines" that will eventually run in the back of your head automatically. With time and practice, the mental "noise" will quiet down and the sport will "slow down" for you.

Don't get discouraged. No matter how slow (or fast) you are when you start, YOU WILL GET FASTER with good practice.

That's the good news.

The bad news is that if you get hooked, as so many of us do, there is no top to this mountain. Almost 10 years in, I still NEED to drive better. The better I drive, the more obvious every little mistake is....and there are many on any given run. I know there is no such thing as a "perfect run", but I can't stop chasing it anyway.

03threefiftyz has a quote from Peter Egan in his sig:

"Racing makes Heroin addiction look like a vague wish for something salty."

2 Bars on the Dragon
 

.....Let it never be said that there is NO mobile phone coverage on "The Dragon" - this is a Tuesday morning picture of Jon with "2 Bars"!

NASA, PCA, BMWCCA and many others. just search for track days in your area. May have to go to VIR, Summit Point, etc. Not sure what is close to MD. Probably BMW and PCA are the best places to start.

garages are usually 100/day and depending on the weekend, the garage rooms are 120-150 per day. I always try to get one of each when I go there, its just so convenient.

However, now that the paddock is paved, there probably isn't a need for the garage.

But did he actually make a call?:p

I got "mirage" bars throughout the week but was never able to actually make a call. (sprint)

ehhhh those flares just do nothing for me. literally would take them off (if possible) if i even would have that nismo. the front bumped gave me a nice chub though :bowrofl:

i'm just happy that Tony gave me his seal of approval on my custom work done to his set-up.

thats actually a lot cheaper than what i thought they would be. maybe it is in the cards then :stirthepot: research to be done later i guess lol

I did not attempt a call since it was about 7:45AM but I did manage to get a couple of texts out on ATT.

Sorry about that. I forgot to turn on my GoPro.:o

I still haven't figured out how to get these things to embed at 1080p (but 1080 is available manually)

Sweet! I'm going to do a low mount like that next year with the Mic up front to pick up induction noise.

Dude your car sounds pure sexy...:yum:

Im jealous.

Thanks! That's a bone-stock DE with a K&N drop-in filter....and a GoPro mounted pretty close to the intake.

wow... thats very impressive. man, forget the dragon, listen to that engine!:icon17:

Thanks.

It seems that youtube's compression killed the video quality. I loaded it as a 1080p MP4 but the light cutting through the morning fog just goes all Minecraft.:shakes head:

This video doesn't do the road justice. I have yet to upload my new personal-best run. (Line to lookout in ~10:20)

I will try to figure out how to keep it "pretty" when I upload that one.

nice.:p

i'm just gonna leave this here.........

No official ZdayZ media thread yet?

you can be hat guy or would u like me to be?

I post in the MAZOC section a lot (because I hang out with a lot of you at ZDayZ) but I thought it might be a little presumptuous for a 350Z driver from Florida to start a thread in the MAZOC section of a 370Z forum. :rofl2:

Besides, all I've got are a few driving video's and some phone pics.

i woulo car pics only. party pics are not meant for this lol

New personal best. State line to overlook in ~10:20

Or now we could mix Hamilton tears as well, after Monte Carlo.

Dammit! I hadn't watched the race yet!!!

ya snooze ya lose!

damn dude, you were hauling azz...:p

Oh crap! Sorry. I should learn how to use the

I know. :shakes head:
Eh, no biggie. It's not like I couldn't guess the results. :p

It was good, watch it anyway. The announcers bring high drama in towards the end. Wait... they do that all the time. Still there is some good racing action. It is Monte Carlo after all.

Thanks. I was putting in some effort.:driving:

:icon17::rofl2:

Killed another ABS control module.

It started acting up whilst parked in the garage, before I even went to my first post-ZDayZ event.:o

Oh well. Of all the places to have to discover a failed component, my own garage is a pretty good place for it.