Well, after a bit of work I got my capture card working again and a download of MS's Video Encoder tweaked to run well on my old 400 MHz home computer.

You all will have to excuse the quality but there is only so much encoding my old computer could handle.

Enjoy . . .

http://AnthonyRawson.com/Cars/Videos/0714-1.wmv

http://AnthonyRawson.com/Cars/Videos/0714-2.wmv

http://AnthonyRawson.com/Cars/Videos/0714-3.wmv

http://AnthonyRawson.com/Cars/Videos/0714-4.wmv

http://AnthonyRawson.com/Cars/Videos/0714-F1.wmv

http://AnthonyRawson.com/Cars/Videos/0714-F2.wmv

http://AnthonyRawson.com/Cars/Videos/0720-1.wmv

http://AnthonyRawson.com/Cars/Videos/0720-2.wmv

 

They look good! I love in car video.

I am uploading some in car video from Ryan's turbo car. No matter what your opinion is of Ryan....his car is damn impressive!

 

What does Ryan drive?

 

at FSF, you should try to keep a tighter line. Especially on the backside of the course with the conewalls. Youre going 4 or 5 feet too wide on those. Also, your turn-around was WAY TOO wide. you should have been able to get the car to be able to go straight through the first 2 box gates, without having to turn to the right.

Driving with 2 hands helps too. Try to minimize the amount of turns and smoothly transition from one thing to the next.

Thats just what i picked up. :shrug:

 

Your fav Porsche guy.......Mista Kennedy

Patrick

 

Here are a couple of the videos. There is a lot of shaking...I hope you have Dramamine



http://www.webcelonline.com/porsche10.mov

Patrick

 

Thanks for the info. Until my first look at the videos I had no idea how much one handed driving I was up to but since that discovery I have been forcing myself to use both.

My lines are also far from being as tight to the course and as sharp as I would like them to be since I am running a really hard set of Toyo street tires making traction very marginal. I have also been experimenting with how much fuel weight to keep on the front wheels to control the over and understeer tendancies of the car. For these reasons at the last couple of FSF auto-xes I have had really bad understeer so my compromise has been to try to take faster wider turns instead of taking them slower and tighter and then taking a loss from my lack of accelleration.

Thanks again for the critiques since I'm glad to see that you are picking up on the same things that I am currently unhappy with myself.

While I am always looking to improve my skills, fortunately I am also working on my car's traction and acceleration issues.

 

Taking the tighter line, although counter-intuitive, will be VASTLY quicker. Since youre having issues with acceleration, you should be focusing on where you can keep your speed. Again, the tight line is faster, because you have to turn less. My car is UNGODLY slow in a straight-line, so i know all about a lack of acceleration. How does ~105whp sound?

As for fuel, use the least you can without having fuel starvation. Trying to tune with fuel load is just making you make mistakes in other places. Just drive the car....the rest comes later.

 

I need someone to come with me one time and tell me what i'm doing wrong.....cause I'm sure there's plenty.

 

That would normally be the plan. Back when I had a stickier set of tires up front I would only run about 5 gallons of gas up front and be able to go through a corner tight and fast enough to lift the front inside wheel (many people have told me about this, but I saw it for the first time this weekend when that 911-SC ran).

If I currently run only 5 gallons up front I will just plow through any tight corner unless I take it way slower than I care to.

At the last two FSF events I bumped it up to 10 and 13 gallons which improved the understeer but with the associated gain in total weight.

Since I was still understeering pretty bad I decided to go with about 18 gallons of gas up front at the last event since I knew the miata course was supposed to be very tight.

I'm glad I did since despite the weight penalty it was enough weight on the front end to eliminate nearly all of the bad understeer tendancies.

If it can make the difference in making the same turn 5-10 mph faster, then tweaking my fuel load is something I certainly need to deal with.