MB_Forever

I've been getting a few PMs lately asking for another private track rental.... look what I've done? I've turned you guys into a bunch of addicts LOL. Anyways, I was thinking about February 5th, 2011 for our next private rental at Famoso. What do you guys think?

This time I'm thinking about doing some friendly little competitions in the following categories:

- Best 60' time on street tires
- Best 60' time on drag radials
- Best reaction time
- Best ET of the day
- Best Trap speed of the day
- Worst reaction time (got to be unintentional)
- Whatever else you guys may suggest

One condition: we gotta vote Jeremy out of the best 60' competition The guy was unstoppable on Saturday; he was cutting 1.80 to 1.82 60' times on street tires in a 63 all day long like it was nothing

Okay, so who's interested?

BenzoBoi

You know I'm in homie! I'll be ready by then.

Bramage

I think I need to do laundry that day... (Im in)




BTW- What is a "Good" Reation time. My best last weekend was .055 That seems pretty good. Just not sure what others see that do this regularly

MB_Forever

Dane, you gotta stop this madness man.... it feels like we're drag racing every day now

I think Rick (rarfinancial) holds the record for best reaction time in our private rentals over the last 3 years with a 0.001 reaction time. I was able to hit 0.002 one time before. Juicee has hit 0.002 a few times as well. It's a lot of fun going for the reaction time

James@ACG

<== IN

this time ACG will supply the lunch... I think some of us got better times as the day went by due to weight reduction lol

MacGCU

I'm in fo sho

Johncy2000

I'm in! I'll have my mods done by then!

MBH motorsports

I would go but the Superbowl is the next day....

ShangoAshe

How does March sound?! haha

bassn_07

I'm only going to to go if you promise we'll have -5000 DA....LOL. I better not say that too loud.

Why don't we bring it to Sacramento Mo? We'll probably get a better chance of getting some cool weather, plus the track sits at sea level. I could talk with track management and see if they could do a 8 hour TNT that day. That way it would only cost us a $100.

02cl55amg

im craving a private track day, but not superbowl weekend. any chance of a weekday rental? i work weekends(and thats a busy one!)

MB_Forever

That's a good point about super bowl.... I didn't even think about it. How about the following weekend:

Saturday, February 12th

Also, what do you guys think about a night rental, so we can get cooler weather and better DA?

The DA was actually not too bad in the morning. It was only 100 to 200 ft in the morning and didn't start getting high (500+ ft) until after 11:00 am or so. It then started climbing to 1400 ft or so by 3 pm but then dropped again just as rapidly to 600 ft by 5 pm. I think if we do a night rental, we may stay under 200 ft and maybe even go in the negatives for a little bit

bassn_07

I still think we should go for a day rental and hope to get lucky. Humidity is the highest in the morning and evening with the lowest during the afternoon. Even though the DA may rise in the afternoon I believe we'll run faster, 60' better, and have much more fun. Just my $.02 on a night session.

Or you could organize a Sac event and we could take it up North. From what I was told, both by Hotrod and Budoboy, is that Sacramento fixed the mph beams. I haven't had a chance to witness it for myself yet but I will the next chance I get. I'm sure it wouldn't be a huge event like your last one but the weather will definitely be good!

Brute SRT

Mo, whatever day you decide. Night or day Sac or Famoso. Count me in!!!

Neusha G.

Night and I'll be in for sure!

02cl55amg

night race be easier for me, and cheaper!

jworms

do you get the same amount of time with a night rental? would love to participate again and a night rental would make it that much more appealing

FlyingGuy

i need to make the next one. i have retired tha S4 with a best of 11.9. car is gone but not forgotten.

now i need to break in the new car. dont worry, its still German, and it still has 2 turbos

rarfinancial

Hey Mo , how about just having a hang out day with some racing. how about the car with the best RT gets the day for free it would be great to just have a great day driving eachothers cars... its never about whom is the best just as long as we have a fantastic day.. ok lets ad best bikini of the day also. I have hilton ready

budoboy

I'm going to try to make either Sac or Famoso, whatever you decide.

I'd prefer Sac because it is only an hour and 20 away vs. 4 hours but I'm being selfish.

I think you'd want to run during the day for traction reasons. I ran at Atco at night in -1900 DA but there was ice on my car and everyone was skating down the track. It is better to have a chance of a little sunshine to help warm up the already cold track.

Another thing to consider is Sac is at 100' less elevation than Famoso and gets better weather this time of year. An all day deal would be cool.

bassn_07

Actually Sac is 500 feet lower than Famoso. Famoso sits at 625 compared to Sac's 30' elevation.

Once my car gets fixed let's hit the track up again Jeff. I would love to see your car run again..... I'm sure we would have some great match ups.

MB_Forever

Actually, during the evening, the DA drop does yield better times at Famoso despite the humidity. Sal ran his best time (10.89) between 5 and 6 pm at Famoso with a DA of 300 ft or so. He also cut his best 60' as well. He did better after 5 pm than he did in the morning

MB_Forever

Guys, you are forgetting an important point here.... with Sacramento, we would NOT need a private rental. We can just decide on a date and go. I've never seen that place have more than 40 cars, so we can definitely take advantage of it whenever we want. The only draw back is track prep/traction for any car running street tires or even low-end drag radials. And the advantage with Famoso is better track prep but it often comes with a price of 500 feet extra in DA. However, and as you guys have seen last event, the DA at Famoso was between 100 to 300 feet in the first couple of hours of racing. And last November, it dropped below zero after 6 pm.

Alan, are you guys still doing Sacramento track day on the 7th?