Quattroberfest at Brainerd International Raceway

[mngolfer]

Finally I figured out how to upload some of my videos to the Contour.com site. With the Contour GPS camera you can see track position, elevation and speed in addition to the normal track lines. There is a 2GB file maximum so some of these videos are cut short.

I took nine videos, but so far only five have uploaded. Contour is having difficulty with their site upload program.

We had five R8s at this event. Three were in the novice run groups. I know we all had fun. It was nice meeting Kerry Thacher from Canada. This was his first event on a track like Brainerd International Raceway located in MN. He says he will attempt to meet us at Road America next year.

I asked two instructors to provide feedback on my driving skills. One instructor has 30+ years of experience instructing. The other is a new instructor. They have very different opinions.

I hope you enjoy these videos.

http://contour.com/stories/session-i...instructor-bob

[harrison]

VERRRRRY RRRRRR8 enjoyable !!!

[technomania]

very cool...bet u had a blast!!!

[mngolfer]

It was really fun. Here is another video on the short track. Notice how the camera GPS and the car speedometer are VERY different. At 18:32 in there is a difference of 10.2 MPH.

I hope our speedometers are not off that much.

http://contour.com/stories/session-ii-bir-in-the-rain

[kthacher]

These are great to watch. As mngolfer says, I was new to this, but by the end of the second day, I thought I had the line down pretty well. I will post when I get around to it. I am also going to do something different, and will pick a few corners and show how I was screwing them up, and then getting them right. Maybe that will be helpful to others who end up on this track. I had a demanding instructor who made me focus on technique and not speed, which is exactly what I needed. Looks like I was 10 seconds or so off mngolfer's times, based upon watching my video, but by the end of the event, if I had been given the headroom, I felt that I could drive the track a lot faster, as in those last runs everything felt very leisurely.

But speed was not my objective - go slow to go fast as they say. I had a blast and will try and get to Road America next year. I cannot recommend these events highly enough - I learned a bunch.