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May 29th, 2016, 18:03
My son & I drove at a fundraising event this Memorial Day weekend at Talladega Superspeedway with Vettes-4-Vets. We lined up at the gates for about an hour before going to the bays- I was the only Audi, the only other German "car" was a BMW X5, & there were only a couple of other sedans (a couple of CTSVs). Some elderly guy (I'm 60 so he was very old since he was a good bit older than I am) came up to us while we were waiting in line & asked me if I thought I could keep up with all the Vettes- of course I said "Hell yes!". It was a lonely feeling with about 200 Vettes- there were a good number of Camaros, too. I tried to represent the RS6 nation well.
I am not a big NASCAR fan, but it was really cool driving on the track. After leaving pit road the first time you really felt like you were going to fall off the 33 degree banking in Turn 1 & 2- anything below 70 mph you had to counter-steer to stay up on the track- 90-100 mph was pretty neutral. You had to really hit it about halfway thru T1-2 to pick up speed for the back straight but you always had to really brake hard to keep from hitting the cars in front that were slowing down for Turn 3. I was disappointed that I was only able to get up to 145 mph on the straight, I had a really good run going the last session, but everybody in front bunched up & braked halfway down the straight. I was glad I had the YellowStuff pads put on this week since I don't think the worn HPS pads would have stopped quickly enough from 145. Everything did fine with the car- no overheating & nothing blew off.
There was an older gentleman I saw struggling on his walker to leave the restroom before he had gone on the ride in the Vette & I just couldn't believe it when I saw the volunteers helping him out after the ride. They asked him how fast he had gone & he said 110 mph- they asked him if that was the fastest that he had ever been. He said no- he had gone 150 mph 2 years ago at the event. It was pretty cool.
https://youtu.be/AOh2EEghEWw
We did 3 sessions of 5-6 laps- that place is huge. It was a fun day & they raised a lot of money for the Vets group.
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I am not a big NASCAR fan, but it was really cool driving on the track. After leaving pit road the first time you really felt like you were going to fall off the 33 degree banking in Turn 1 & 2- anything below 70 mph you had to counter-steer to stay up on the track- 90-100 mph was pretty neutral. You had to really hit it about halfway thru T1-2 to pick up speed for the back straight but you always had to really brake hard to keep from hitting the cars in front that were slowing down for Turn 3. I was disappointed that I was only able to get up to 145 mph on the straight, I had a really good run going the last session, but everybody in front bunched up & braked halfway down the straight. I was glad I had the YellowStuff pads put on this week since I don't think the worn HPS pads would have stopped quickly enough from 145. Everything did fine with the car- no overheating & nothing blew off.
There was an older gentleman I saw struggling on his walker to leave the restroom before he had gone on the ride in the Vette & I just couldn't believe it when I saw the volunteers helping him out after the ride. They asked him how fast he had gone & he said 110 mph- they asked him if that was the fastest that he had ever been. He said no- he had gone 150 mph 2 years ago at the event. It was pretty cool.
https://youtu.be/AOh2EEghEWw
We did 3 sessions of 5-6 laps- that place is huge. It was a fun day & they raised a lot of money for the Vets group.
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