Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YJh3dC ... e=youtu.be
A whole new track to learn. Lap times were only 1:53s but I've only done a couple of laps. I do think lap times will be slower going clockwise.
A whole new track to learn. Lap times were only 1:53s but I've only done a couple of laps. I do think lap times will be slower going clockwise.
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Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
Very cool,Dan! That 7-6-5 is intimidating...and the trackout pavement in 1 disappears fast! It amazed me how similar CCW and CW lines are. Thanks for doing this!
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Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
Wow, that 4,5,6 in reverse looks crazy! Nice lines, Dan!
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Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
Thanks for posting! Looks weird... and your car sounds like it has a bad alternator or something. You should get that looked at!
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Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
"...and your car sounds like it has a bad alternator or something."
Dans Lotus Exige has a roots supercharger,so whine is normal.
Dans Lotus Exige has a roots supercharger,so whine is normal.
It's not what you drive, it's how you drive. "Lap times matter"
Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
October 17 , the SCDA event, will run clockwise (backwards). The motorcycles have already run it clockwise. It's `FUN'
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Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
Yep Dan and I will be there for the day and in hopes of running all 4 times on the track
Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
You'll have fun Butch. It has a lot more blind corners and even a higher top speed on the "straight"
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Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
Dan - open clockwise laps at Palmer (Remlap) is this Saturday (4/21), you going?
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Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
we ran a day clockwise with scda. it was fun
I didn't like it better or worse it's just different.
i did 6 laps with my students E36 m3 2 run sessions in my NA miata and two run sessions in our ( the wife's) 2015 STI .
i found to get the most out of each car i was taking a slightly different line thru old turns 5 and 4 .
if palmer is having a track day it's worth going.
I didn't like it better or worse it's just different.
i did 6 laps with my students E36 m3 2 run sessions in my NA miata and two run sessions in our ( the wife's) 2015 STI .
i found to get the most out of each car i was taking a slightly different line thru old turns 5 and 4 .
if palmer is having a track day it's worth going.
Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
Friday April 27th is also a clockwise lapping, school, and arrive & drive, event at Palmer. Maybe the snow will stop by then.!
Dan D'Arcy
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Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
Showing 53 and Sunny Saturday. We're in New England, next week is beach weather!
I'm forbidden from taking all my vacation days for track time, I need a few in the bank for Tremblant.
I'm forbidden from taking all my vacation days for track time, I need a few in the bank for Tremblant.
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Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
Palmer. Backwards. In the rain.
I enjoyed the clockwise configuration far more that I thought I would. Entry into T14 is phenomenal! T8 is a real turn now in a Miata. Entry into T5 is not as scary as I thought it would be. T1 is much more satisfying as well. I only had two dry sessions and lap times were into the 1:52s on Nittos. I actually think the lap times will be very close in both directions.
Thanks to Dan Darcy for loaning me the memory card for the video. Enjoy the slippery excitement.
I enjoyed the clockwise configuration far more that I thought I would. Entry into T14 is phenomenal! T8 is a real turn now in a Miata. Entry into T5 is not as scary as I thought it would be. T1 is much more satisfying as well. I only had two dry sessions and lap times were into the 1:52s on Nittos. I actually think the lap times will be very close in both directions.
Thanks to Dan Darcy for loaning me the memory card for the video. Enjoy the slippery excitement.
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Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
Great job Dave. Too bad the weather wasn't more cooperative. Everybody that I talk to, that has driven the track clockwise, likes it just as well counter clockwise or even better.
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Re: Palmer Backwards, Clockwise
hydroplaning, doncha love it? I'll bet it would be lot less scary with real rain tires. I was too lazy to put mine on in the wet, but my Chinese student with his 8,500 rpm V8 M3 learned hydroplaning when going over 80 mph. He did 140 in the dry. loud gutted muffler.
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