Well, ran Charlotte on Friday. What a trip. Had some definite jitters early on where I'm telling myself "I'm on the NASCAR banks at Charlotte Motor Speedway".
Missed the warmup lap due to a seatbelt malfunction, ended up missing the turnoff for pit row at the end. Whoops. Smooth sailing other than that. Porsche is ungodly slow compared to what I was used to driving (could only muster 115 MPH on the back straight), but the tires sucked so much it was a freakin' blast to drive. The entire infield road course was one giant slip and slide as I had no grip whatsoever. NASCAR turn 2 is wild. Even with a pretty miniscule head of steam, the compression on the banking is enough to bottom out the suspension.
Still ended up winning my class as the only entry (w00t), but more importantly, despite being down many horsepowers and lots of grip, still finished within 5 seconds of another very well sorted car with a top notch driver. I must not be as terrible a driver as I remembered. Only bad part of the race was that I found the starter solenoid literally hanging from the bottom of the car after the last heat, but had a great time otherwise.
Will be running my next race in September... on much better tires.
