Disparaged by NASA Director for Wanting to run TT4 in a Turbo NA - Input?
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Rad! I'm gonna be at the Long Beach Grand Prix on Saturday with my pops but am planning to head up to Buttonwillow right after. I'll shoot you a message closer to that weekend and try to come say hi (and maybe pelt you with a few questions if that's cool) on Sunday.
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Quick follow-up.
So I went out to Willow Springs with NASA yesterday. I spoke to John from the email above about getting a checkout lap so I can move to HPDE 4. Dude was super receptive and showed enthusiasm. I got his blessing to move up to 4.
He told me a couple of my passes were borderline aggressive and that I needed to track out at the exits of turns 1 and 9 more (Using all of WSIR is scary mmmkay?). We shot the breeze for a little bit after.
To wrap up the thread, the director was much more pleasant in person than the email would suggest. I don’t want to give anyone on here who might be in his group the idea that he’s an *** to turbo Miata guys. I think his email was just a badly-worded attempt to stack another car into TT5. Not something I wanna do but I’m not gonna hold it against him.
I appreciate all who responded. I’m glad to know that nobody except the rules can tell me if my car is or isn’t eligible for a certain class haha.
So I went out to Willow Springs with NASA yesterday. I spoke to John from the email above about getting a checkout lap so I can move to HPDE 4. Dude was super receptive and showed enthusiasm. I got his blessing to move up to 4.
He told me a couple of my passes were borderline aggressive and that I needed to track out at the exits of turns 1 and 9 more (Using all of WSIR is scary mmmkay?). We shot the breeze for a little bit after.
To wrap up the thread, the director was much more pleasant in person than the email would suggest. I don’t want to give anyone on here who might be in his group the idea that he’s an *** to turbo Miata guys. I think his email was just a badly-worded attempt to stack another car into TT5. Not something I wanna do but I’m not gonna hold it against him.
I appreciate all who responded. I’m glad to know that nobody except the rules can tell me if my car is or isn’t eligible for a certain class haha.
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Keep having fun on the track and cross-pollinating between NASA and GTA is a good way to stay active.
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Love to hear it, dude! Hoping I'll be in a similar situation to yours as well. My car's not quite optimized yet either (currently 20-25hp under my power limit) but there'll be plenty of time to dial that in next year. What tire and power are you running the car at? George above said the Maxxis RC1 & 246hp combo is working well for him. I think that's what I'm gonna aim to do next year.
Either way, I'll be running TT4 in Buttonwillow with NASA SoCal this Sunday. Amped!
Either way, I'll be running TT4 in Buttonwillow with NASA SoCal this Sunday. Amped!
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Love to hear it, dude! Hoping I'll be in a similar situation to yours as well. My car's not quite optimized yet either (currently 20-25hp under my power limit) but there'll be plenty of time to dial that in next year. What tire and power are you running the car at? George above said the Maxxis RC1 & 246hp combo is working well for him. I think that's what I'm gonna aim to do next year.
Either way, I'll be running TT4 in Buttonwillow with NASA SoCal this Sunday. Amped!
Either way, I'll be running TT4 in Buttonwillow with NASA SoCal this Sunday. Amped!
--Ian
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Probably won't be able to make it up to Sonoma in a couple weeks, planning on having my built motor finished and going in the car at about that time. I'll stay in touch and hopefully make it up to some NorCal events once summer's over though!
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I think I've researched this quite a bit but there's always a decent chance I'm out in the weeds.
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Well ****, guess I'll add RC1s to the list of things I gotta try. I had the center tread of one of my brand new brand new front RT660s partially delaminate at my last track event. Had like 3mm of it just peel off and fold over to the side after a session midday. Figured it was a fluke though as almost all my buddies run them and none of them ever mentioned such an issue.
Edit: This whole time, I thought you were talking about VR1s, not RC1s. Makes more sense now.
Edit: This whole time, I thought you were talking about VR1s, not RC1s. Makes more sense now.
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