Cal Club Time Trials
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:21 pm
Cal Club has started offering Time Trial events in So Cal. I just attended the first one at Buttonwillow on March 13,14 and I have to tell you it was a great event that was a lot of fun, fast and educational.
This was their first event so the crowd was not large, but we had people who had never been on a track or any kind of autosports before all the way up to track junkies like me.
The focus was on safety and training and education of car control and track and line knowledge. We actually walked part of the track. Yeah, me the guy with the bad knee.
It was very helpful to learn the camber on some corners and walk the curbing for turn in and exit and apex and even for run off (only once), if you needed to.
They are going to run another event at Auto Club Speedway in June and I would hope that some of you in the autocross arena would give this a try.
We did 3, 20 minute sessions each day. One orientation as we drove a different configuration each day, one practice and then one timed laps if you wanted to session.
I was lucky enough to get a little coaching by Oli and by the end of the day he had me running a 2:13 on 1ccw when the race leaders were running 2:09. Not bad for a 3700 lb street car.
Renee and Gayle and Bob and all the regular volunteers were there and it was great to see them.
I will include a couple of video clips for you to watch and I hope to see some of you at the June event.
Everyone take care.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMBypmODb_w" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnXlxBL8S_0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This was their first event so the crowd was not large, but we had people who had never been on a track or any kind of autosports before all the way up to track junkies like me.
The focus was on safety and training and education of car control and track and line knowledge. We actually walked part of the track. Yeah, me the guy with the bad knee.
It was very helpful to learn the camber on some corners and walk the curbing for turn in and exit and apex and even for run off (only once), if you needed to.
They are going to run another event at Auto Club Speedway in June and I would hope that some of you in the autocross arena would give this a try.
We did 3, 20 minute sessions each day. One orientation as we drove a different configuration each day, one practice and then one timed laps if you wanted to session.
I was lucky enough to get a little coaching by Oli and by the end of the day he had me running a 2:13 on 1ccw when the race leaders were running 2:09. Not bad for a 3700 lb street car.
Renee and Gayle and Bob and all the regular volunteers were there and it was great to see them.
I will include a couple of video clips for you to watch and I hope to see some of you at the June event.
Everyone take care.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMBypmODb_w" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnXlxBL8S_0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;