sleepyhead said:....
Thanks for sharing the awesome pics. I had to zoom in to read the sticker and was rewarded. 
sleepyhead said:....
Thanks for sharing the awesome pics. I had to zoom in to read the sticker and was rewarded.
Link to Results for those like me playing along from home:
https://www.onelapofamerica.com/event/ResultsIndex.do?eventId=39
Wet Skid Pad podium is:
And, the McLaren and Camry tied! Tied in an event with 3 digits after the decimal point. Both with .829g
Alright here’s the set of pictures from today. Unfortunately, I’m still learning my camera setups a bit, and I ended up pushing the image stabilization of this lens a bit too far at 1/100th of a sec... and I ended up getting a bit too much camera shake on some of these actions shots. However, I’m still going to post up a couple of them, just so you know I screw up, and what that looks for. And, also, every once in a while... you get lucky and grab a clear one.
Sooo Nelson ledges...
There is a bump at the kink eight at the apex. If you miss the apex by about 1.5 feet there is no bump.
Also, turn 1 is almost flat out. Work up.to it, but it is a very small braking zone just mainly to set the front end.
That is 1 fast track.
In reply to sleepyhead :
Do you have any more info on the slightly burnt Datsun? Like, how it was set on fire? LOL
It’s was great hanging out with you gents yesterday.
I’m also very curious to see how those Tesla’s do in the event.
I already knew seth and pete were good guys, but now i know tim(good guy) and Travis Pastrana is just a normal car/bike guy like the rest of us and is also a good guy. Keep up the good work with the underdog accord, boys.
Nelson Ledges had a reputation. It's old and rough and falling apart, except it's not. It has been repaved and it's great. It's very much an old school ribbon of asphalt through the woods. It winds and moves. No brake markers, just a few curbs. There are a lot of choose your own adventure corners.
I've done some track driving since last year, but nothing feels like sitting in line waiting to go out for One Lap. It was impossible not to think about my first session last year and the tire wall. So I was slow. Every corner exit told me how much of a coward I had been going in. 65 out of the 73 that started the morning session.
Cars are already starting to suffer. My friend Jenna and her dad are headed home with a melted valve cover on their VW. Another team just got off the phone with Carbotech about pads. Everyone has gotten away with things so far, but as I was typing this the factory Toyota Camry came off like this.
Sleepyhead is suiting up to go out for the afternoon session.
Huge thanks to John Welsh for visiting today and Patrick last night. I live seeing you guys.
And if anyone wonders why they're behind the red Miata, it's 100% awesome crew chief. Car comes off and tire temps and wheel bearing temps checked. Logged in a book. Decisions made. I need to step up my game.
Enjoy your cookies
Nice meeting you guys, good luck!
You guys don't do tire temps and pressures?
That can be worth seconds! And it's easy to do.
Is one lap hitting cmp this year? If so, when?
mazdeuce - Seth said:Huge thanks to John Welsh for visiting today and Patrick last night. I live seeing you guys.
And if anyone wonders why they're behind the red Miata, it's 100% awesome crew chief. Car comes off and tire temps and wheel bearing temps checked. Logged in a book. Decisions made. I need to step up my game.
Dude 10000%. I’m thinking of paying her to do it for me next year in her free time!
In reply to wvumtnbkr :
In testing? Absolutely. On One Lap? Nah. We have pressures that we're cool with and are mostly focusing on figuring out where to go on tracks we'vr never seen.
Chandler, sorry I didn't get to talk more, hopefully we'll cross paths again.
Pete's driving and getting us through Chicago on our way up to Elkhart Lake. I'll be taking over soon to finish up the drive there with our second fill up. BTW, we managed 317miles and 14gals on our tank today,for 26mpg... *including* both track sessions, and idling in grid.
I'll have a more detailed write up and pictures from the day once we get in to the hotel.
In reply to Crackers :
My understanding is that it was dyno-run related, that there was either a fuel spill or a fuel leak… and a spark from either the the wheels on the dyno or in the rear lighting wiring. As it was, they were figuring out a “fuel pump” issue when I took that picture.
Sleepyhead’s Sunday Driving Report
I think we’ve covered this a bit, but just to remind everyone… up until Wednesday, I’ve not driven at all. Not just ‘not on track’, but ‘not on the road either’. I’m coming up to speed on being the alert driver that I expect for myself on the highway, but until today there’s was an open, lingering, question… a chad dangling off the ballot of Seth thinking that “punch here for Sleepyhead” was a good idea. Can Sleepyhead go from zero to… well, not fast… but be at a minimum either not wrecked or not embarrassing.
I won’t dance around it, but the fear and anxiety of that question… mixed in with the regular “I’m about to set a One Lap session time” nerves… preoccupied me for an hour after lunch. Bob & Ted of the Bob & Ted’s Adventure Corvette ribbed me for having my race-face on for too long. Seth was nice, and left me alone to think driving thoughts, and breathe heavy breaths.
Finally, I was being sent out onto the track, the last car of the last run group. Right where I should be. Little danger of being caught from the first car, and with the tantalizing hope of catching the C7 ‘vette ahead of me. I blasted out of… well, gave it all the beans I could coming out of the pits for my sighting lap so I’d have a chance at seeing the first turn at some kind of speed, feeling out the car and keeping my eye out for the dirt and mud that the white P100D Tesla had plastered on the racing line after going wide in turn 1. And there it was, squeezing you into a tight one-car-width lane on the apex of turn 2. Then was the first time to haul on the brakes, and get my first feel for how they did, before dropping into the banking of that left-handler. Then it was down to the carousel to feel out how the car felt slowing while turning, and seeing if I could avoid absolutely butchering the line through it. Exit there, build up some speed and decide how fast I wanted to take the kink. I decided to grab some brake and work my way up to speed through there, rather than take it flat. There was still a lot to learn about the car, and how the suspension dealt with the wallowing served up to it by the undulating and articulating camber of that section.
I won’t go through it lap by lap. Suffice to say, I absolutely failed the launch, I left an elephant’s worth of seconds out on the track. The mud just off the line into turn two crimped my desire to push more speed through that turn, and I never took the kink flat out. I didn’t catch the vette, but I didn’t get caught by the first car either. There’s no doubt, my track driving skill-set has atrophied these last many months. There is improvement to be had this week.
Never-the-less, I was only 0.5sec behind mazdeuce’s morning session time. I wasn’t fast, but I wasn’t embarrassing either. Session completed successfully, pack up, get on the road and tackle the next track, and see if we can’t downgrade the elephant-seconds to hippopatamus-seconds. Hippos, after all, are some of the baddest mammals around.
And, y’all said picture flooding was ok... so, here we go, hopefully...
first, some work done along the way Saturday...
#assumetheposition / #properbrakeducts-ish
Midnight brake resurfacing / pad change
Some pre-session artsy shots...
Alright, here’s a bunch of “action shots from the kink during the morning session...
Despite this off... Steve managed 6th overall, iirc. Course knowledge is powerful at OneLap...
The first is definitely out of focus, and the others have some issues too. Still finding things to tweak and recheck before shooting... like making sure IS hasn’t been bumped “off” in my bag. 
And, the back-end of the grid keeping it cleaner...
Including Mike Musto being a class act...
Well, maybe not *all* clean..
pretty much S.O.P. for a mustang?
some convertibles and backenders...
and, finally... a taste of the pairing of OneLap at Nelson Ledges...
Chandler children loved it
Good luck today! weather looks like it will make things..........interesting.
It was great to see you all yesterday and great to see other One Lap Friends also.
Keep up the good work! Thank for all the photos Tim.
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