{"id":536,"date":"2006-09-26T20:57:51","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T20:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2025-02-01T21:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T21:20:38","slug":"summit-point-main-hpde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/hpde\/summit-point-main-hpde\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit Point Main HPDE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Summit Point Main Circuit, circa. 2006\" width=\"950\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i_4ar38o-sI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent the weekend of September 23-24 on the Main Circuit at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summitpoint-raceway.com\/\">Summit Point<\/a>, WV. This was the third class I&#8217;ve done with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccbmwcca.org\">National Capital Chapter BMW CCA<\/a> and I highly recommend attending one if you have never been on the track before. This was also my first session on my new shaved competition tires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday started out rainy and slick. The morning sessions I completed with my Goodyear street tires. This was the first time I&#8217;ve really pressed these tires and they performed extremely well even though my R90 wheels are a bit on the heavy side at 20 lbs. each. In the afternoon I put on the Hankooks (225\/45R16 Ventus RS2 Z212s shaved to 4\/32 inch) with my Kosei wheels and the car really came to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, I was &#8220;signed-off&#8221; by my instructor to solo. That was both exciting and a bit intimidating &#8212; in fact, I was sweating like one of Dick Cheney&#8217;s hunting companions. Once I got over the initial shock, I found it quite relaxing. It was odd to only have my own voice in my head, but quickly found a rhythm and really enjoyed the session. Also the car was quite a bit faster without the added weight of a passenger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also did a &#8220;no-brakes&#8221; session in the afternoon. This was the first time I&#8217;ve done one of these. The goal is to lap the circuit without using your brakes. You have to find ways to bleed off speed and learn entry\/exit speeds for the corners. You start out very tentatively, afraid to exceed the entry speed, but quickly realize you have lots of options to scrub off speed. I found that after the session there were a couple of places where I had previously been braking that now all I had to do was lift and that my entry speeds went up a bit. Unfortunately it started to rain again at the start of the final session so I didn&#8217;t get to really see how it affected my overall lap times. But then again, this is not a race &#8212; so no wagering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the weekend of September 23-24 on the Main Circuit at Summit Point, WV. This was the third class I&#8217;ve done with the National Capital Chapter BMW CCA and I highly recommend attending one if you have never been on the track before. This was also my first session on my new shaved competition &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/hpde\/summit-point-main-hpde\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summit Point Main HPDE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[148,178,267],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hpde","category-mini","tag-hpde","tag-mini","tag-summit-point"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}