{"id":867,"date":"2009-05-31T23:02:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T23:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2025-02-01T22:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:13:52","slug":"ncc-bmw-cca-hpde-shenandoah-circuit-5-29-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/ncc-bmw-cca-hpde-shenandoah-circuit-5-29-09\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC BMW CCA HPDE Shenandoah Circuit 5.29.09"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2389\/3584811831_37d194beaf.jpg\" alt=\"MINI at the track\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a beautiful weekend to be at the track. (Actually, there are no bad weekends to be at the track. Except maybe when it snows &#8212; been there, done that.) Except for a brief deluge, it was sunny and warm all three days. I really appreciate the Friday IA days. I get more track time in that one day than I do in the rest of the weekend. So much in fact, that I almost ran out of gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two videos below show the last run session on Sunday for the A Group. The groups all had about 12 students each which was an ideal size for this track. We were also fairly close in speed, with a few faster than the MINI (OK, most) and a few slower. This was also the first time I&#8217;ve run with another MINI on the track that wasn&#8217;t driven by an instructor. It was cool to see the difference in performance between the R53 (mine) and the R56. With about 20% more torque, the new turbo really pulls away on the straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NCC BMW CCA 31 May 2009 Last Run, Gp A part 1\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mymmFnfvQaI?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<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NCC BMW CCA HPDE 31 May 2009 Last Run, Gp A part 2\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KARL4CyfcS4?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>The skidpad was interesting. I don&#8217;t know what BSR has done to it, but you&#8217;d think a skidpad was supposed to be slick. This one had an amazing amount of grip, even when soaked. We were hitting speeds above 42MPH before getting any understeer. It wouldn&#8217;t be a problem except there isn&#8217;t much run-off area when you start to spin or push outside of the wet zone. I managed to get the MINI to oversteer by increasing the pressure differential between the front and rear tires. When the tires were cold, it really came around with just a throttle lift. When the tires were hot, we had to induce it with the E-brake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3586\/3585619008_950f4d87c2.jpg\" alt=\"not so slick skid pad\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful weekend to be at the track. (Actually, there are no bad weekends to be at the track. Except maybe when it snows &#8212; been there, done that.) Except for a brief deluge, it was sunny and warm all three days. I really appreciate the Friday IA days. I get more track &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/ncc-bmw-cca-hpde-shenandoah-circuit-5-29-09\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NCC BMW CCA HPDE Shenandoah Circuit 5.29.09&#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":[48,148,178],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmw","category-hpde","category-mini","tag-bmw-cca","tag-hpde","tag-mini"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4313,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}