HPDE progression?

Rangerz

Well had a blast today. Snowed in the mountains Friday so the weather was cold this morning 36 ish for our first session. My instructor Scott was great had a helmet to helmet comm system so I had a lot of instruction the better part of session 1.

So things to work on:

1. Break before you start the turn and pick a better line. Scott pointed this out right off the bat and we worked on that for most of the first session, with a couple of thumbs up for applying what I had been told and for going through the Double D's correctly from the get go.

2. Probably the most difficult thing for me was getting through the slower corner clean. I seemed to do much better on the higher speed and double apex corners. I got a much better feel for it but, still have miles to go to pick up speed.

After the 2 morning sessions I moved to group 2, so solo from there on out for the day with the same cars on the track.

3. Yokahama Advan sports need to go if I want to be semi serious about doing more events.

The 2 afternoon sessions went well but, a couple of things to note. About half way through my 3rd session I got a slight vibration in my front right tire. Nothing serious just not confidence inspiring. It almost felt like the tire was rolling/ flexing on hard cornering. After the session I went back and checked my wear marks and I was about 1/2 to 1/4 of an inch shy of hitting the wear marks on the shoulder of my fronts. So talked to Scott and a few other folks and ended up going from 36 psi to 34 psi which felt better but, not as good as the morning sessions.

As for the vibration by the 4th session I had it in both front wheels. I figured it out on my way home when I hit the freeway. I noticed earlier in the day my tires had picked up a lot of track rubber which threw them off balance slightly. I actually remember Scott mentioning that when we were looking at his Porsh after his TT.

Things to buy/install before next time.

Tires

I have FI TDX and HFC coming. I hate how quiet my Nismo is plus performance gain.

Oil cooler. The temp eventually hit 58 deg and while the 370 did fine I never saw anything above 240 and the majority was 220 or so. Utah gets hot as hell in the summer so a Z1 34 row is in my future.

Proper break pads. I changed out the factory fluid with Motul RBF 600 about a week ago so no issues with fade.

Well that's a wrap thanks for everyone's input and yes the bug has bit