danegrey's 370Z Journal

danegrey

Last Track Day of the year

It was interesting from several different points...

Set my personal best lap in the second session and improvement of .07 of a second.



Traffic was terrible, only because I was running novice solo (just following the rules of the organizer, more on that later). There were a couple of cars that I passed twice.

Overall a great event and really not a lot of cars.

Comment from the organizer. He came out on track and gave me a point by, and then said following me - 'He's Quick, His Lines are good, what is he doing in novice'

I actually work on passing my former instructor, he was helping another novice out, and he had good comments.

Also simply a lot of comments on the car.

Now the BAD, I did not make it through the day. In the 2nd session almost at the end. I was coming out turn 4, through turn 5 and starting to think about turn 6. The car violently pulled to the left, which was the direction I was going. Pulled off into a safe area by turn 6. I was thinking it was a brake issue. While the emergency team came, the driver front brake was smoking. Towed back. After inspection found out the power steering/alternator/water pump belt was gone. Thus the problem.

I just said to myself, why did you not think of changing it out or looking at it. A forgotten item on my checklist.

Have AAA, they came in about 90 minutes, took it a AAA garage, should be back today. I'm all thumbs when it comes to mechanical stuff.


Had a problem, but in all what I was working on there was improvement, vision, braking and being smooth. When I reviewed my quickest lap video, I cross the start/finish line at 118 mph, that was 2 mph quicker than the last PB time.

It was all fun, lots of comments, people offering help, just a fun event, even with the problem.

Thou the event organizer still wants me to have a ride along to move up to intermediate. I am going to see if they will accept the Garmin Catalyst videos.

And thanks to everyone's help on the forum with my questions.

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Lots of Changes
the Z needs to be driven and driven hard for the car lives for it

old guy

Even with the belt issue, it looked like a ton of fun

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I better walk before they make me run....

danegrey

It was always is, and the car is setup and runs well, even the driver has gotten better

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Lots of Changes
the Z needs to be driven and driven hard for the car lives for it