Corvettes do Brainerd - BIR International Raceway
06-23-2006, 10:53 AM
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Corvettes do Brainerd - BIR International Raceway
The weekend of June 10 was the annual 'Corvettes Do Brainerd' low and high speed events. For those that are unfamiliar, Brainerd is located in the middle of Minnesota.
For the Corvettes Do Brainerd event I decided to mount a video camera in the car. The good news is that the camera worked really well, the not so good is that I should have mounted it on the top of my rollbar instead of the bottom since the front of the car lifts enough under acceleration that the track somewhat disappears from view.
Saturday was the Low Speed event. This starts at turn 2 and ends between turns 8 and 9. There are cones on the track for this event which is what qualifies it for 'Low Speed'.
Somehow a lot of the speed gets lost in translation with the video camera also. When you watch the High Speed video keep in mind that the car is moving at 165mph at the end of the straight and try to keep track of what gear the car is in, that should help the C5 drivers understand the speeds.
Apologies in advance for the 'Trial version' message on the video
For those experienced BIR drivers... in the High Speed video I tried shifting to 4th and leaving it there from turn 6 since I was running out of gear, it did not work out so well through turn 8 and the next lap I almost dropped a whole second by holding 3rd. I will need to start short shifting in to 4th and dropping back to 3rd through some of these sections, in particular the stretch from turn 3 to 4.
Unfortunately the high res, High speed videos are too large for putfile so I only have the low res version here.
High Speed - Low resolution (dial-up)
Click here to watch BIR-High-speed
Although this was not my fastest run it will still give you an idea of what it's all about. For those that were there, this run is 1.014... close to my fastest.
Low Speed - High Resolution (broadband)
Click here to watch Low-speed-high-res
Low Speed - Low resolution
Click here to watch BIR-Low-speed-AutoX
For the Corvettes Do Brainerd event I decided to mount a video camera in the car. The good news is that the camera worked really well, the not so good is that I should have mounted it on the top of my rollbar instead of the bottom since the front of the car lifts enough under acceleration that the track somewhat disappears from view.
Saturday was the Low Speed event. This starts at turn 2 and ends between turns 8 and 9. There are cones on the track for this event which is what qualifies it for 'Low Speed'.
Somehow a lot of the speed gets lost in translation with the video camera also. When you watch the High Speed video keep in mind that the car is moving at 165mph at the end of the straight and try to keep track of what gear the car is in, that should help the C5 drivers understand the speeds.
Apologies in advance for the 'Trial version' message on the video
For those experienced BIR drivers... in the High Speed video I tried shifting to 4th and leaving it there from turn 6 since I was running out of gear, it did not work out so well through turn 8 and the next lap I almost dropped a whole second by holding 3rd. I will need to start short shifting in to 4th and dropping back to 3rd through some of these sections, in particular the stretch from turn 3 to 4.
Unfortunately the high res, High speed videos are too large for putfile so I only have the low res version here.
High Speed - Low resolution (dial-up)
Click here to watch BIR-High-speed
Although this was not my fastest run it will still give you an idea of what it's all about. For those that were there, this run is 1.014... close to my fastest.
Low Speed - High Resolution (broadband)
Click here to watch Low-speed-high-res
Low Speed - Low resolution
Click here to watch BIR-Low-speed-AutoX
06-23-2006, 11:35 AM
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Congrats on your FTD, I think on both days. I couldn't make it up there because I was in Philly for the weekend. But it sounded like everyone had a good time.
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06-23-2006, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Randy@DRM
Congrats on your FTD, I think on both days. I couldn't make it up there because I was in Philly for the weekend. But it sounded like everyone had a good time.
Randy
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We should get together for a beer soon.
Andy
06-23-2006, 04:05 PM
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Say hello to my little friend. Ken the owner of the car is about the funnest guy I know. At 65 years old he can still drive the crap out of it. I will give you a call soon
Randy
PS He did the wing and splitter down in AZ. (3 seconds a lap down on firebird raceway)
Randy
PS He did the wing and splitter down in AZ. (3 seconds a lap down on firebird raceway)