Fortune Motors Track Day - March 11, 2005

Wade,

Thanks for hosting such a great track day!! The cars were outstanding, lunch was good, the weather definitely was in our favor, but the people made the day (and it was capped off with the Wolfpack whipping those deacons).

I'l post my pictures here soon.

Bob

 

Wade, I also had a great time. Thanks. I enjoyed meeting alot of the guys. Unfortunately most of them weren't as good looking as they sound on F-chat.
haha.
A nice variety of cars and lots of tracktime. It was nice to see everyone.

Karl Troy ( 944 S2)

 

Wow. I don't even know what to say. That was INCREDIBLE!!!!! My pics are here...

http://photobucket.com/albums/v487/AndyThomason/Andy/CMP%20Track%20Day/

I'll make a video when I get back in town soon... Thanks again to everyone who gave me a ride and to those who let me borrow a helmet!!! I had so much fun!!!

 

Yeah thanks Wade! I had an awesome time, and will do it again if you decide to.

Nice meeting everyone. We had a great goup of very friendly drivers. I don't know what Karl is talking about I look ugly even on f-chat. bwaahaaa

Fender has my video tape and I think he's gonna put it all together, so I can't wait to see that.

THANKS!!!

 

I'm anxious to see the video of a certain, unidentified 348 flying off the track into the sand pits! From this point forward, I'm going to call resnow by his new name, "Sandy". Thanks a ton Sandy... it took me HOURS to clean my car today ! Just kidding, it was worth it in laughter to take that little excursion.

Huge kudos to Fortune Motors for a great event! Huge thanks to resnow (aka Sandy) for hauling my 348 on his trailer, and (seriously) showing me his great driving skills on a slippery track with marginal tires.


I love the smell of burning brakes in the morning... smells like victory!


-Daniel

 

Thank you to everyone for coming out. We truly had a GREAT time planning the event and seeing everyone. I have about 4 hours of footage which will be placed into the DVD. Insane in car footage from the F40, 944 Turbo, Boxster, Z4 and Stradale. The video has all been transferred to hard drive and will now be edited. What a mean Maserati! Thank you again to all...we are looking forward to the next event!

Fender

 

Thanks for including me in the list of rides but it is not a 944 Turbo. It is a normally aspirated 944 S2.( I wish it was a turbo) May be then I could have caught the challenge car. haha

Karl
www.europeanroadandracing.com

 

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Oh and many thanks to Duncan with the F40, I have a bruise a few inches long across my leg below my knee from where it would rub the dash under those incredible brakes lol!

 

I love the fact that Duncan would take such a perfect example of an F40 and use it the way he does. Every Ferrari owner should have such a great attitude about his pride and joy. Beautiful Car, great guy.( Don't get exited, I am married)

Karl

 

Wow what a day !! The rain held off until the end with just a little bit of a sprinkle and a nice Rainbow in the background (actually two rainbows side by side). I will load up the pictures I got in the next couple of days once I get a chance.
I had a great time at the Track and Karl can drive like no ones business in the little Stock 944 S2 Porsche. Whew !!
We couldn't catch the Ferrari Stradale in the straightaways but we were all over him in the corners of 5,6,7 carrying the momentum thru there. After a couple of laps on the bumper of the Stradale he motioned us on by to pass him. That was classic !!
Plus the F40 Ride was very SWEET. The Brakes and the acceleration on that thing is incredible. I tried to catch a glimpse of how fast we were going in the F40 but he had it disconnected .
I do have a few videos on my camera of the F40 and the Ferrari Challenge 360 doing a passby coming up on turn 1. It's not that great but its pretty interesting.

 

Here are some of my stills from CMP last Friday . . .
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Hey Bob(Sandy)

I like that blue man group shot. The first pic you posted. Flatspot(getn passd/jackrussell) looks good in blue painter tape haha.

Actually I didn't know you guys went off, what happened? It sounds like a good story.

 

www.autocorsa.com/media/Auto_Corsa_Kershaw_20051.mpg

 

Suuuuweeeeeeet!!! Can't wait to see the whole thing!

Hey how did the camera mount video come out?

 

yes def. need to see all of that!!!

 

Thanks to Tesseract giving me his spot I was able to tag along with you guys. I had a great time but the lemon ran out of brakes and sprung a small coolant leak. It made it home fine which is more than I can say for the Porsche with the broken lower control arm. That thing looked like someone took a hacksaw to it.

as for those pictures I have to say that little yellow car is by far the best looking car out there.

I enjoyed seeing the people I knew and meeting the people I didnt know.

If anyone has video of the yellow miata I would love to see it.


Thanks Again to Tesseract for making this happen for me, and thanks to jack russell racing for being just a swell guy and letting me know about it.

You guys are top notch!

 

Hey Borka.......FMS650 has the video and is working on it. I'm glad my Porsche held up much better, but then again I wasn't wagging the tail over the rumble strips either. Yay mid-engine balance.

 

I thought that's what the rumble strips were for. Now you tell me.
My P-car didn't seem to mind though.
Cheers

Karl

 

That guy had his car 90 degrees from the intended direction a couple of times. I never saw you get to squirly Karl. Also using the rumble strips vs hitting them is totally different! I guess I should charge for this mind blowing new information on track driving.....hahahahahaha

Anyone know the outcome of that guys AAA tow truck call? Or does anyone know the guy with the white boxster s? He mentioned selling his turbo wheels, so an email addy would be appreciated.

 

howd the little turbo miata do compared to all the fcars?

 

I don't know about everyone else, but compared to my P-car Boxster S he was fairly even overall. He only had 10psi and even at that he was fast down the straights. I was surprised though even with his dot race rubber I was with him in the corners. I had a passenger video an entire run where we were close together, so once I get that footage I'll post it up. ohhhh man this just makes me want to get back to the track!!!

 

I wouldn't necessarily call it a "little turbo miata". He held his own, on about 1/10 the budget !

It would make ol' Dr Who (Dale in TX) proud.


-Daniel

 

Speaking of 1/10th the budget. That 944 S2 is For Sale and as you guys have seen it outran everything there except the cars in the racegroup. Even there it was only 3 sec/lap behind the 360 Challenge. If anybody that's not embarassed to drive a Porsche wants more details please email me privately at [email protected].

Karl