carfixer
11-03-2005, 06:11 PM
Last friday night, I was invited by Tallboy to go to a private track event at Bradenton Raceway. The Porche/Audi dealership his lovely wife works for invited a bunch of their customers and employees to attend the event. I almost didn't go due to having no power at home from Wilma but my wife said go.
The air was a cool 67 degrees and the air was dry. Track prep was top notch.
First pass was my best of the night and a new personal best: 12.647 @ 108.06 MPH with an awesome 1.763 second 60' time.
There were dozens of Porches there. The one that impressed me the most was the 911 that ran 10.3 at 149MPH. That was without a burnout. He claims close to 1000 HP. Most of them ranged from the upper 12's to the upper 13's. For the most part, we didn't race them with the Marauders. We were invited guests and didn't want to come off as party crashers.
I ran another 6 or 7 times, all against Tallboy and Shakes26. I had a bunch of 12.6xx passes and practiced my launch technique and reaction time. It was lots of fun. On the return road from one of those passes, I stopped to watch Chuck run his car's first ever 12 second pass. I was happier about that pass than my own!
At the end of the night, about 10PM, I had said out loud that I'm making my last pass and I'm going home. One of the guys that works at the dealership overheard me and challenged me to a race. He has a Mitsu EVO with what he said are the "regular" mods.
The last few runs I made, I was going easy on the burnout so I didn't burn up my new Nittos all in one night. For this run, I heated them up real good. :burnout:
I got him on the lite, .061 to .115. My car cut a 1.80 60 footer and was ahead his car from start to finish. I ran a 12.665 to his 12.7xx and beat him by nearly a car length. I was stoked.
After the race, he came over to me to congratulate me and was simply amazed that a car almost twice as heavy with with only 2 wheel drive was able launch like that. I was amazed to see him in my rear view the whole race!
Man, I love this car!!!!!!!!
The air was a cool 67 degrees and the air was dry. Track prep was top notch.
First pass was my best of the night and a new personal best: 12.647 @ 108.06 MPH with an awesome 1.763 second 60' time.
There were dozens of Porches there. The one that impressed me the most was the 911 that ran 10.3 at 149MPH. That was without a burnout. He claims close to 1000 HP. Most of them ranged from the upper 12's to the upper 13's. For the most part, we didn't race them with the Marauders. We were invited guests and didn't want to come off as party crashers.
I ran another 6 or 7 times, all against Tallboy and Shakes26. I had a bunch of 12.6xx passes and practiced my launch technique and reaction time. It was lots of fun. On the return road from one of those passes, I stopped to watch Chuck run his car's first ever 12 second pass. I was happier about that pass than my own!
At the end of the night, about 10PM, I had said out loud that I'm making my last pass and I'm going home. One of the guys that works at the dealership overheard me and challenged me to a race. He has a Mitsu EVO with what he said are the "regular" mods.
The last few runs I made, I was going easy on the burnout so I didn't burn up my new Nittos all in one night. For this run, I heated them up real good. :burnout:
I got him on the lite, .061 to .115. My car cut a 1.80 60 footer and was ahead his car from start to finish. I ran a 12.665 to his 12.7xx and beat him by nearly a car length. I was stoked.
After the race, he came over to me to congratulate me and was simply amazed that a car almost twice as heavy with with only 2 wheel drive was able launch like that. I was amazed to see him in my rear view the whole race!
Man, I love this car!!!!!!!!