wexford
Maximum Pace
- Jul 3, 2012
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Ok - so this is about a car race...
My last 12 hour endurance race was about 2 years ago. I've mostly been enjoying the bike too much since to think about car racing again and well, the arrival of a baby boy also didn't help persuading the wife that I still needed to spend money on car racing.
Still - what use is having a race car if you can't race it. Of course, I've winged my way into this race by saying that I'll sell the car after this race and move on. So for the moment, this is one last hurrah.
The car is an S2000 and I've 3 team mates. We're racing in Fukushima on a track called Ebisu circuit this coming Saturday the 22nd. Hopefully, the weather will behave. A nice cloudy day would be best. Sun will toast us, rain will make for a very tiring day. That's what a 12 hour enduro is all about though. Driver and car survival. I'm probably the fittest I've been physically in a long time though due to all the cycling. That should help.
Our goal is to win the race. Lofty goals of course but anything can happen. Last time out our LSD shattered about 6 hours into the race when we had just taken the lead. Hopefully, the car is sorted this time and we can just drive.
Here is some footage from my last race. Towards the end around 6:30 in I miss seeing a slippery surface flag and end up hitting a huge oil slick which brought the heart rate up a few notches.
Unfortunately, there will be no footage for the upcoming race as the camera went on fire the last race apparently. I didn't actually join that one. The fun stuff that can happen in a race car
Anyway - will try to update the thread in case anyone is half interested in the outcome after the race and then I can get back to cycling ;-)
My last 12 hour endurance race was about 2 years ago. I've mostly been enjoying the bike too much since to think about car racing again and well, the arrival of a baby boy also didn't help persuading the wife that I still needed to spend money on car racing.
Still - what use is having a race car if you can't race it. Of course, I've winged my way into this race by saying that I'll sell the car after this race and move on. So for the moment, this is one last hurrah.
The car is an S2000 and I've 3 team mates. We're racing in Fukushima on a track called Ebisu circuit this coming Saturday the 22nd. Hopefully, the weather will behave. A nice cloudy day would be best. Sun will toast us, rain will make for a very tiring day. That's what a 12 hour enduro is all about though. Driver and car survival. I'm probably the fittest I've been physically in a long time though due to all the cycling. That should help.
Our goal is to win the race. Lofty goals of course but anything can happen. Last time out our LSD shattered about 6 hours into the race when we had just taken the lead. Hopefully, the car is sorted this time and we can just drive.
Here is some footage from my last race. Towards the end around 6:30 in I miss seeing a slippery surface flag and end up hitting a huge oil slick which brought the heart rate up a few notches.
Unfortunately, there will be no footage for the upcoming race as the camera went on fire the last race apparently. I didn't actually join that one. The fun stuff that can happen in a race car
Anyway - will try to update the thread in case anyone is half interested in the outcome after the race and then I can get back to cycling ;-)