V8 Miata cockpit video at TWS
 

his is in-car camera footage I recorded during the Texas Miata Challenge at Texas World Speedway on November 19, 2010. This version includes a gauge overlay of the GPS telemetry.



Short description of my car:
- Stock LS1, T-56 trans, Ford 8.8 with 3.5 gears and Truetrac diff.
- Stock brakes with Corrado kit on the front, sport kit on the rear. Wilwood prop valve. Carbotech XP10 on front, XP8 on rear
- 700/400 coilovers with Koni race shocks, RB front bar, no rear bar. Poly bushings all around.
- Nitto NT01 225/45/15
- APR GT II aluminum wing in the rear, DIY splitter on the front.
- Not sure on the weight as I have stripped out more parts since I last weighed it but guessing somewhere in the 2400 lb range wet with no driver.

Best lap that day was a 2:01.3 (not on the video) which is basically a very respectable Spec Miata lap time at this track. The car is easily capable of sub 2:00 laps.

:facepalm:


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I'm tired of trying to make the embed work. I still do not know WTF. Copy embed code from youtube, paste between the YT tags. Right?

Yup, everything after the =

No, ignore the embed function in youtube. Just copy what's after the "=" in the actual page URL, then paste that between the YT tags. You can also remove any of the "&" thingies...the vid identifier itself is like 8 or 10 characters long I think.

scroll all the way down, and click on BB code in ON. it will tell you how. or Rick's sticky on it...

Fixed, thanks

Nice. Cayman went as if standing stil. :bigtu:

i hate embeded vids. it's an extra click if you wanna go full screen. anyway's
zx, dude, there's a ton of time left in your car as is. i was taking turn 10 about 10mph faster in jakes car, and i go a little faster than that in my car. that's one of the few corners i am actually going all out in. i have about 3 corners down, the rest i need to get serious and push it till it starts to slide. if you don't have a slight angle through the corner, your not going fast enough. and i guess that's what it really boils down to for all of us. short of being a racing phenom, the only way to find the max speed in a corner without spinning/sliding off the track all day, is to slowly go faster every time until you reach the point that a. you have a slight slip angle and b. you have to use every inch of track out space available, and in some corners a little more.
that's why we're concentrating on a few tracks next year. i imagine everybody's gonna pick up some time just from familiarity.

this is from the one session i got in august. i was working on turn 1 and using the handy cones as markers. i thought i had gotten to wot just after the start of the cones, but in the vid you can hear it's just before the cones. i shift to 5th just before the transition. car was still planted solid, that means i was slowing down too much in the braking zone and/or could have floored it even sooner but i ran out of time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PHtfICbZ4k

Agreed on everything Spoolin' said above.

And now the highlights reel

I think I was counting wrong. I think I meant turn 9 which is the uphill left hander after the carousel and short straight.

I was definitely coming out of the carousel in a four wheel drift out to the edge of the track. That was fun.