JP4
October 4th, 2003, 04:27
Well....I'm going to make an effort here to give you a quick and dirty description of the Audi Car Club Driving School that I attended at Road America 2 weeks ago. I've got some photos too but I don't think the quality is very good. I'll attempt to post some of them anyway as pictures usually speak a thousand words.
There were about 150 participants at the 2 day school and we all got 3 sessions per day of 25 minutes each. The rest of the time was spent attending excercises, classes and hitching rides with the instructors in some really awesome cars with the really good drivers.
The track was wet the first morning as it rained early that morning. The track however was pretty well dried out by 10 am with a good breeze helping the process.
There were NO serious mishaps thank goodness as all participants were able to drive their own cars home!
As for the RS6 at Road America...the words that come to mind are ones like....WOW....AWESOME....SWEET. I could go on but you get the idea. The track is arguably the fastest road course in North America and I was able to really stretch the legs on the beast. I'm going to tell you right up front that I never drove the car 10/10th's as I was getting use to the feel and performance of the car on the fast track as well as my meager abilities to keep it all under control. I concentrated on being very smooth through the transitions and consistent.
Overall impressions:
The power is certainly awesome. I ran the tranny in tip mode most of the time but did run a few laps in sport mode just to see how she behaved. Sport mode was certainly adequate as the engine was always in a good part of the power ban and the auto downshifts were aggressive enough. However I felt that I had a bit more control in tip mode. As for the brakes...well...I never pushed them REALLY hard but they are far superior to the brakes on the '00 4.2 that I previously had. Pad wear after about 300 miles on the track was minimal with no adverse wear signs on the pads or rotors. I was running track tires on forged rims (see photo's). Michelin Pilot Sport Cups 265/35/18 and they were quite effective. Excellent turn-in response and very predictable. They seemed to handle the weight of the beast quite well as the wear is acceptable for a tire with an 80 treadwear rating.
If there are any specific questions about the track, car or pix just let me know as I don't want to be boring everyone to death with all the details.
BTW-There was one other RS6 at the event black/black.
JP4:addict: :race: :incar:
There were about 150 participants at the 2 day school and we all got 3 sessions per day of 25 minutes each. The rest of the time was spent attending excercises, classes and hitching rides with the instructors in some really awesome cars with the really good drivers.
The track was wet the first morning as it rained early that morning. The track however was pretty well dried out by 10 am with a good breeze helping the process.
There were NO serious mishaps thank goodness as all participants were able to drive their own cars home!
As for the RS6 at Road America...the words that come to mind are ones like....WOW....AWESOME....SWEET. I could go on but you get the idea. The track is arguably the fastest road course in North America and I was able to really stretch the legs on the beast. I'm going to tell you right up front that I never drove the car 10/10th's as I was getting use to the feel and performance of the car on the fast track as well as my meager abilities to keep it all under control. I concentrated on being very smooth through the transitions and consistent.
Overall impressions:
The power is certainly awesome. I ran the tranny in tip mode most of the time but did run a few laps in sport mode just to see how she behaved. Sport mode was certainly adequate as the engine was always in a good part of the power ban and the auto downshifts were aggressive enough. However I felt that I had a bit more control in tip mode. As for the brakes...well...I never pushed them REALLY hard but they are far superior to the brakes on the '00 4.2 that I previously had. Pad wear after about 300 miles on the track was minimal with no adverse wear signs on the pads or rotors. I was running track tires on forged rims (see photo's). Michelin Pilot Sport Cups 265/35/18 and they were quite effective. Excellent turn-in response and very predictable. They seemed to handle the weight of the beast quite well as the wear is acceptable for a tire with an 80 treadwear rating.
If there are any specific questions about the track, car or pix just let me know as I don't want to be boring everyone to death with all the details.
BTW-There was one other RS6 at the event black/black.
JP4:addict: :race: :incar: