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Here's a couple of photos from the weekend. Since I was a guest, I wasn't supposed to be able to drive my car on the track. However, our group had a participant that did not show, so they said it would be ok :tup:

First photo is a panorama of the early crowd waiting out front of the track
Second photo is my Z being inspected for track readiness in Garage 5
Third photo is my Z after she was done for the day and cooling off

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Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 2378898)

Its was super fun, and following the instructors and listening to their comments over the radio was extremely interesting. Limit braking was the one thing that I don't think really transferred to the track. During the six laps in my own Z, I always felt like I could go much deeper, especially Turn 1 which is a large uphill approach. It was interesting that I felt that way despite braking to a slower speed than necessary on most turns and not taking them at the highest possible speed (especially Turn 1). I know that part of this was I had a lot more faith in my braking ability after replacing my front rotors and pads and brake fluid last Tuesday.

Yeah, this is why a some reviews of the NISMO were not that great break fade. The car needs more air going into the breaks. On a track, your constantly breaking late and hard which leads to heating the breaks and kitting them. Break fade is bad. I'm not saying that our breaks don't work. They just don't work as well as they could/should have that's all. They do work really well on the streets however. They work more than well enough.

You can see they used a snippet of my footage at the beginning and 2:03 mark. i guess that makes up for not using my interview part as I bet I was rambling

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Originally Posted by MC (Post 2382519)

You can see they used a snippet of my footage at the 2:03 mark. i guess that makes up for not using my interview part as I bet I was rambling

Nice :tup: My Z is the last one in the row of cars on the youtube cover still (~40sec), but I'm sure they cut it out because I didn't have any fancy Nismo decals since I got it on the track at the last minute :icon17: Surprisingly, I even had a couple of appearances in the background of a few of the Juke Nismo shots. Not exactly a pretty face :ugh2: :rofl2: