Redline Time Attack + Rain + 250whp = The time of my life!
 

Race car all cleaned up and ready for a weekend of play:

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Will post video of a few laps within the next day or two. I ended up having the most amazing time of my life in my car this weekend. Nothing went wrong with it mechanically, it ran very strong, was a blast to drive in the wet, I learned alot and made alot of great friends. We participated in the BTA (beer time attack)

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both nights, special thanks for the free beer with GST motortsports and the insane impreza L they built. Great times, great people, cant wait to do it again! I was able to participate in the "wheel to wheel" section of redline because of my cage and hans device, it was alot of fun to be on track with some high dollar cars, and not get last :D

Haha man that sounds like one awesome weekend

The car looks great man! Glad you had fun.

Nice! In for vids! :loser:

Awesome pics, +1 for vids. Looks like a blast, and BTA sounds like a good use of an evening.

that has gotta feel good. throw the thing into crazy conditions and it exceeds expectations. if you go fast enough who needs wipers anyway. +1 on the baller harness connectors albeit too. :D

any problems with foggy windshield?

RainX and antifog work wonders.

sounds like a blast. cant wait for a vid or two

truth, so does a paper towel on a stick when shit gets outta hand.

Awesome!

I love rain driving...

Congrats! Love that beer shelf. :D

i didn't know rain took off the paint on 6ul's.

In for videos!

And morph them into TRmotorpsorts c3ms to. Must have somethin strange in the water up there

Looks like a ton of fun. What tires where you on?

Prolly had a second set of wheels/tires for the rain.

As promised:



The silver wheels are a set that i borrowed from a friend. They had just about full tread on them, rs3's. The black wheels have worn nitto nt01s, both were like driving on ice in the rain.

looks like you have that black lexus on a string. yoyo :laugh:

i was expecting 4 to be slippy, but 2 looks very slippy even off-line as well and it wasn't even that wet. i guess you got the first rain of the season and all that oil came up. what a ride whew

EDIT: you probalby don't care for stupid comments but it looks like u need more wing in carousel. car didn't look balanced through there...

How did you like the xr2s in the rain?

The low-end torque from the AF bits makes rain driving very nice.

stop with the music.

can you please remix it with this:



and then, make the volume like 5% so I can hear the car.

edit: i see the music stopped... good.

Very nice and good fast hands. He He...:eek3dance

good job on the video. Nice car and driving also.

Christ WTF with the music BOOO. I was going to forward the vid to all the typical guys in my company and others like your last video but having to wait thru 4 minutes of that stuff is making me feel ill. I don't want to crop your video to lap 2 :(

Sorry you don't like it, I thought I would throw something over the sound of the motor, which I think gets old fast if your not driving.

^^ not if yer blood is a gasoline/meth mixture

I don't think it gets old at all. I even listen to videos like that when i'm doing homework or studying.

Yeah I minimize the browser playing the youtube and listen sometimes too. I think music during the beginning and as you are getting the car ready, etc, that's all good.

Noted, ill be sure to either turn the music down alot more than I did in this video, or just cut it out completely next time. I have a video of my friend driving the car around with the pit limiter ive been toying with uploading, any interest anyone?

Bald Nitto nt01s on Saturday morning, then 50% tread Nitto nt01s Saturday afternoon. Then Hancook RS3s most of the day on Sunday, this video is of me driving with 50% Nt01s on the car, Sunday for the last event.

What? Nobody here likes Radiohead?

I liked the music, nice touch. Also great driving!

Thanks! I had a blast, cant wait to get new tires and go on track again.

The car ran so well I didn't even know what to do between sessions. I guess its time to bring a book to read between track sessions.. Didn't think I would see the day!

You got on motoiq.

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"Nick Cahill in his Mazda Miata drifting in the rain, we are not normally fans of the Miata (except Coleman) but this is one badass looking Miata."

http://www.motoiq.com/magazine_artic...n-raceway.aspx

Cobb?

:facepalm:

I was curious about that too. Cobb has nearly nothing to do with a miata.
I'm guessing that has something to do with his scoob and/or they pay him or offer him deals for slapping their sticker on.

They pay RLTA to require each car to wear the windshield banner.

Excellent video and pictures!

As already stated, I felt that the music in the beginning was a great touch, great choice too, but please make it go away when you start going fast!

This, it's not by choice.

wow. that's fucked up

if u run scca u have to sticker up also (tirerack). whats the big deal?

nick, correct me if i'm wrong, but i think u got a good amount of track time over 3 days, for what $350?

Its advertising, RTA gets alot of attention and media coverage so its understandable.

Right, I am not really complaining, just sayin.

My new sponsor took care of most of the entry fees too :D

opps, my comment came off kinda snarky. didn't mean it.

ya, it is semi-virul advertising since their ads show up everywhere your car shows up (motoiq). congrats.

got any video of u on wets?

It is really wet during this video, however i do have video of me driving in full downpour. I was one of 3 guys to go out during one of my sessions because everyone else "didn't want to"

Seat time is seat time, and seat time in the rain is pretty rare so I took every opportunity I could to learn.

My first laps were in the 2:50 range on Saturday morning. Sunday afternoon down to 2:24 fully wet. Ill scrounge something together for some full downpour driving.

Very cool...


have a copy/pasta of your mod list?

If you're forced to have a banner anyway, why not contact one of the companies on the side to set up some sort of agreement?

PINKO COMMIE ALERT!!!!!111

If you don't like sponsors then go run in NASA TT and not get any national blo coverage. I'd proudly wear the Massengil banner if they decided to bankroll a series I'm competing with.

My car essentially but with poser suspension, 100lb lighter, a cage, and aero.

/\ And Sans Vagasil ;)

hey now cant we all just get along?

Ive got real seats and safety equipment because i don't want to hurt myself too.

:giggle: That's actually a compliment. Tough love.

???? because he's prolly only running 1 or 2 events a year and is peeling the stickers off after the event anyway. read hustler's post for clarification.

nick, nice driving. i like driving in the rain sometimes, but i love feeling the g's and high speeds more. i guess if it's a hpde then i wouldn't care, but if it's a comp. event, i'd rather it be dry.

awesome. i was thinking of video of u on the wet tires instead of the nt01 but i'll take full downpour in lieu anyday. i really enjoy rain driving but i usually avoid wet track days because they always close the track and that kinda blows.

@spoolin i thought in wet races it would be easier to pick off the weak and sickly ones? or is it too easy to get punted off track...

Are you into yoga?

He's getting photographed with those banners on his car and those photos are getting posted on sites that are pretty popular. It's obvious that Redline is using everyone for advertising while they get paid for it. I'm saying he should try to bypass that and get paid himself.

You don't see that?

o hai oversteer. Badass vid and car Nick :)

your point is moot and in this case invalid and uncalled for. can't you see that?

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lolz

You're a retard and if you keep posting retarded shit I'm going to ban your stupid ass.