{"id":743,"date":"2007-10-20T23:34:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T23:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2007-10-20T23:34:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T23:34:53","slug":"ncc-hpde-10-20-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/ncc-hpde-10-20-07\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC HPDE 10.20.07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccbmwcca.org\">National Capital Chapter<\/a> held their last Driver&#8217;s School this past weekend at the Jefferson Circuit at Summit Point. The Jefferson is one of my favorite courses &#8212; very MINI friendly. The weather was beautiful, and unlike last November, sunny and warm. The GeorgeCo MINI ran like a top. (Watch me chase the M5 in the video above.)<\/p>\n<p>No major changes to the car from the last track day. The suspension has settled a bit, so I now have more negative camber up front which helped with tire wear. I replaced my stock hood scoop with the M7 Extreme Hood Scoop which may have helped with intercooler temps, but it wasn&#8217;t that hot to begin with. The Falken RT-615s continue to wear evenly and remain predicable through multiple sessions, never exceeding about 125 degrees in the front and 98 in the rear.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the suspension work and sticky tires, we&#8217;ve been having trouble making the car misbehave on the skidpad. For my second session, we tried something different. To get the car into oversteer, I lowered the fronts to street pressure and over-inflated the rears by about 10 pounds. With a little application of the emergency brake, the tail came out quite easily. But with all front-wheel drive, it is hard to sustain oversteer for any distance. You can see at the end of this clip that I managed to get the car almost completely sideways and still recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Capital Chapter held their last Driver&#8217;s School this past weekend at the Jefferson Circuit at Summit Point. The Jefferson is one of my favorite courses &#8212; very MINI friendly. The weather was beautiful, and unlike last November, sunny and warm. The GeorgeCo MINI ran like a top. (Watch me chase the M5 in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/ncc-hpde-10-20-07\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NCC HPDE 10.20.07&#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":[4,12,14],"tags":[148,178,267],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmw","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\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}