Herbie on Steroids

**volkdent** · #1 November 5th 2006, 23:48

BMW had a driving event at Infineon(formerly known as Sears Point) Raceway this weekend. This guy brought a Porsche GT3, white, and to my delight it had the red and blue striped down the center and a 53 on the door. I thought, this has to be the very best case of reverse German Look that I can think of!

Jason

Mikey · #2 November 6th 2006, 01:20

Pictures???

DORIGTT · #3 November 6th 2006, 19:24

The owner/driver was obviously a crack-addict....who's his supplier eh?

**volkdent** · #4 November 6th 2006, 22:02

What was even more fun is trying to run him down in my M3! The GT3 is practically a race car, so there really wasn't a serious competition, but let's just say he left me very slowly. If not for traffic he would have pulled steadily, slowly, away from me, but as it was, he and I found ourselves together for most of a 30 minute session! It's a lot of fun FOLLOWING a GT3, especially when it is Herbie's cousin!!

Jason

Humble · #5 November 9th 2006, 01:15

I had no idea you were into track days. We gotta hit some of the same events especially when both our projects are finished. I can't wait to hit some of the tracks around here, laguna seca being the closest one. How did you like Infineon? I've only driven past it on my way to Thunder Hill never actually raced on it.

**volkdent** · #6 November 13th 2006, 06:06

I've only been doing the track days for a couple of years now, but I have managed to hit all the California tracks I like, with the exception of Reno-Fernley(NV, but it's close to CA), which I haven't just because it is so far.

I really enjoy Infineon, it's quite a challenging course, doesn't really give you time to breath and relax. Thunderhill has a much more relaxed pace, but the long, unbanked or off camber corners tend to get on my nerves, as I'm just wearing of rubber for nothing. So far, Laguna Seca is my fav, a combo of nicely banked turns with a lot of elevation changes and gut-check braking zones.

I really don't know how my rig is going to do at the speeds those tracks get to, I'll be getting a full cage in before that happens I'm sure. The front end was designed for those type of events, but the back end geometry still remains a mystery as far as it's performance.

Did you take your Bug to Thunderhill? How was it going through turn 1?

Jason

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