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Matt Evans
Добавлен 27 авг 2011
C8 Corvette Track Day at NJMP Thunderbolt - June 3 2022
NASA North East ran this event - great job folks! This is group 3 and 4 together with instructors (with X's on their cars).
I spent two days at Thunderbolt. It was my first time here. Day 1 had better track conditions, with day 2 getting hotter and rubber marbles building up from the race group's tires. Turns 9 & 10 became very tricky. Even on day 1 people were saying the track was not as grippy as usual.
Fastest lap I did was in this session (1:34.5 on lap 3) even though my familiarity and lines improved over the two days. I'm still using the original Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires but it's likely their last track outing.
I spent two days at Thunderbolt. It was my first time here. Day 1 had better track conditions, with day 2 getting hotter and rubber marbles building up from the race group's tires. Turns 9 & 10 became very tricky. Even on day 1 people were saying the track was not as grippy as usual.
Fastest lap I did was in this session (1:34.5 on lap 3) even though my familiarity and lines improved over the two days. I'm still using the original Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires but it's likely their last track outing.
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Learning to drive on kitty litter....
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They said someone had dropped oil on the track.... Turns out they dropped if for about a mile! The takeaway is that if some thing is wrong pull off in a safe place to avoid so much expensive clean up.
C8 Corvette Track Day at Watkins Glen - Apr 22 2022 - HPDE3 with HPDE2
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Watkins Glen is awesome! Well worth the drive from NC up to NY. HPDE3 group was combined with HPDE2 which made for some traffic and slower point bye's but I had a great time. Best lap time was the second one at 2:15.04, but I could definitely do a 2:14 without having to pass other cars. Where's the fun in that though?
1st lead/follow session - Ron Fellows C8 Corvette Owners school - Mar 30 2022
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Payton, our instructor, leads Terry in the red corvette, Tim in the orange corvette and myself in a rapid blue corvette out on the track for the first time. My turn following Payton is at the 17min mark. I've included everything from taxing out, to the very end as it includes a lot of comments from Payton on the things to think about. There is constant communication (mostly to the first student...
Hot lap on North course at Ron Fellows C8 Corvette Owners school - Mar 30 2022
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Hot lap by Payton (one of my instructors) at Spring Mountain on the North course. He was driving my assigned car with the same settings with me sitting in the passenger seat - He did a 1:16.85 in just one try. Awesome to see how to do it right and be able to adjust my technique in later sessions! I recommend this course whether you have little to no experience or lots of experience driving your...
Last session - Ron Fellows C8 Corvette Owners school - Mar 31 2022
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DO THIS COURSE - AWESOME STAFF, CHALLENGING COURSES, AND GREAT FACILITIES! I just came back from doing this 2 day course and found it well worth the money. My two hot laps in this session start at the 11:50 min mark (1:20.3 and 1:20.4). This was the last session and I was really pleased to get some tidy laps in. The track configurations here at Sprint Mountain are more complex than they appear ...
C8 Corvette Track Day at VIR - HPDE3 with HPDE4 - 4th/Last session - Mar 20 2022
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Last session for the weekend. Combined with those in HPDE4 (Instructors, and race licensed). Always fun to see some more experienced drivers and their cars - I'm jealous of their tires most of the time. I started near the front of the line and watched where each driver had some different lines (after they passed me).
Thunder Roadsters look like a handful! VIR HPDE3 Mar 19 2022 - Viewed from a C8 Corvette
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These typically have a motorcycle engine like the Hayabusa 1300cc in them. Looks crazy how much slip angle they get in the corners.
C8 Corvette Trackday at VIR - HPDE3 group doing a great job with point bys at VIR March 19, 2022!
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It's hard to keep an eye on things going on behind you but this group was awesome! The best portion is at 6:45mins onwards.
C8 Corvette Track Day at VIR - HPDE3 - 3rd session - Mar 20 2022
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Good cool air and mostly sunny so a really nice day at VIR. First time with this car here. Running the standard wheels and Michelin 4S tires. Best I could do was 2:09.6 min which I'm very happy with.
C8 Corvette Track Day at Carolina Motorsports Park (CMP) - HPDE3 - Last session - Feb 20 2022
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Last session for the weekend. HPDE 3 and HPDE 4 combined but it was a clear track as many had decided to head home already. I was trying to run consistently and decide where there might be more time to be gained (like in the kink / turn 10). Managed a few good laps in the 1min 45sec range. Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires perform really well even when pushing them hard. Not too much loss of grip a...
C8 Corvette Track Day at Carolina Motorsports Park (CMP) - HPDE3 - Feb 20 2022
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Busiest session of the day with HPDE 3 and 4 combined and EVERYBODY out on track. CMP is lots of fun and simple enough to learn, but still challenging enough to be interesting. NASA ran the weekend, and did a great job. Session ends with a practice red flag where everyone pulls over and stops for emergency vehicles to come out... Hot brakes were sending up smoke signals to give them a breeze....
NCCAR - Camaro SS - Apex Track Events - Sept 17 2017
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Open track time with Apex Track Events at NCCAR running CCW (counterclockwise)
Secret Driver Instructor training... :-)
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As you can see track driving a Dodge Challenger is a real handful, but it does have a bit more clearance underneath for the off track excursions. And I they did HIT the apex once.... This was an exercise for the folks doing instructor training over the weekend. Driver has eyes closed, and the instructor is working on giving good voice instruction. (Good job Michael!) My Camaro practically does ...
Track day at VIR - Camaro SS - NASA HPDE 2 - August 19 2017
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Great fun out on VIR again. This is the last session of the day. A lap behind the pace car then some clear laps (Lap 3 & 4) at 2 min 17 sec. Really happy with that!
Road Atlanta HPDE2 with NASA - 2016 Camaro SS - June 17 2017
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Road Atlanta HPDE2 with NASA - 2016 Camaro SS - June 17 2017
Road Atlanta HPDE2 with NASA - 2016 Camaro SS - June 18 2017
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Road Atlanta HPDE2 with NASA - 2016 Camaro SS - June 18 2017
VIR Full course - Camaro SS - 12:57pm May 21 2017
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VIR Full course - Camaro SS - 12:57pm May 21 2017
VIR Full course - HPDE1 in my Camaro SS - 3:30pm May 21 2017
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VIR Full course - HPDE1 in my Camaro SS - 3:30pm May 21 2017
Karting at Rush Hour Garner - Dec 22, 2015
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Karting at Rush Hour Garner - Dec 22, 2015
NCBIKE Motorcycle track day - Session 3 - 11am Oct 17 2015
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NCBIKE Motorcycle track day - Session 3 - 11am Oct 17 2015
NCBIKE Motorcycle track day - Session 2 - 10am Oct 17 2015
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NCBIKE Motorcycle track day - Session 2 - 10am Oct 17 2015
NCBIKE Motorcycle track day - Session 3 - July 25 2015
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NCBIKE Motorcycle track day - Session 3 - July 25 2015
NCBIKE Motorcycle track day - Session 2 - July 25 2015
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NCBIKE Motorcycle track day - Session 2 - July 25 2015
NCBIKE - Session 4 - Following friends - July 4 2015
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NCBIKE - Session 4 - Following friends - July 4 2015
Motorcycle track day - VIR North - Session 7 - June 12 2015
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Motorcycle track day - VIR North - Session 7 - June 12 2015
Looking Good!
Nice! I'm taking my C5 there in August for my first track night! This is honestly one of the best videos I've watched of the track so far. Idk if it's bad camera angles or what, but most of the other videos I've watched have a warped speed/depth perspective, making the track look too narrow for the speeds people are hitting. Thanks for sharing, this is great!
I am signed up for an event with NASA in August at VIR. I have run 4 events with Chin, now in their blue group, there. This video gives me pause with the NASA HPDE program. Quite a few you passed did not seem they should be in 3. Do you have any comparison with other organizations?
What video game is this?
Lol it's real life
Lol the graphics are amazing 😏
Nice driving Matt. Can I offer you one small tidbit of info? You're scrubbing a ton of speed on the entry to turn 3 (The fast right hander). Fast guys go in there at 100+mph. I've taken it at 103mph at the apex. If you can set up your car to keep it above 95 and closer to 100mph there, you'll knock off another 2 seconds per lap. Otherwise, your driving is excellent as well as your ability to read the traffic. Oh, one more thing.... I noticed your traction light came on a couple of times at the exit of 12 onto the front straight. Please be cautious there, especially since you mentioned that traction was weird that day. A snap oversteer event will put you into the wall.
The C7 ZO6 driver was average
Sleeping or below average I think. It was only the first green lap but sloppy lines then the point by at the end of the straight was odd (wrong side).
Wow what a great track, good driving as well.. tracks in Southern CA can’t get to the 140 mph. Except Auto Club which is being demolished… grrrr
C8 can hit 155 at Road Atlanta back straight.
Matt, great vid. Using it to learn the track for a weekend coming up. Any way I could get the GPX file for CMP? Would like to set up my C8's PDR before I go.
Sure - where can I email it to you
150 mph, heaven.
Really great job with the point byes with this group.
Nice laps. What kind of prep to the car? Track alignment? Tires?
Thanks. Preparation included: Getting the transmission oil topped up per Chevy instructions, track alignment per Chevy instructions, Carbotech brake pads (XP12 for on track, which I swap back to 1521's for low dust street use - I don't get surface layer issues swapping back and forth. Had this issue before when swapping brands). The car goes great on the standard Michelin PS4's. I'm amazed at the performance and durability on track. I'll be replacing with Pilot Sport Cup 2's though for the coming season.
Nice drive. Nice video. It may motivate me to head over there from central MA.
Wow! Awesome!
What is HPDE3? I live about 45 min fron CMP. I raced motorcycles there.
Hi Matt : Got the track alignment done and wow what a difference ! I picked up 5 seconds a lap at Watkins , from 2:19.5 to 2:14.4 .
It helps. You are probably also becoming a better driver too. Don't credit everything to the car.
Great run! I know 1:20 lap is fast for that track!
Your in the 150mph club, Congratulations!!
Hi Matt : I was at Watkins Glen June 30 , what an awesome track . My best lap time was 2:19.06 - Im in a stock non z51 c8 - Hawk brakes DCT 60's and cup 2 tires I put on at the track . ( I put a hitch on the C8 & tow a small tire trailer with tools ) My question is again on track alignment : Did It make a BIG difference than the stock alignment ? I'm wearing out the outside edges in 5 track days on the front tires . What was the cost of the alignment ? Thank you for your help - You are one of the few who use your C8 as I do .
I'm sold on doing the track alignment but you may not value it for various reasons. The reason I go for the track alignment is partly because of the learning experience i had with my 2016 Camaro SS. I drove this with and without track alignment and kept pushing as I gained experience. I came out of that with a better appreciation of what the tire footprint is doing and how the vehicle dynamics change. I realize the dynamics of the Corvette are somewhat different but the same concepts apply. So from the beginning I was confident that the track alignment would give me more performance and that I would detect and decide if it was too much camber or not. After 10 track days I feel it is right for me. In contrast to this, a person with less or no track time might not actually find any value at all. I would save the cost of the alignment, get some experience and change it after doing enough to get into intermediate group. The main reason is that there is so much to learn before camber becomes a concern. I didn't find the Corvette suffering from understeer on the road like several journalists talked about, so I'm sure it will do just fine on the track without the track alignment, up to a point. The chevrolet dealer near me quoted a lot to get a track alignment so I took it to a shop that does track set ups and they found that it is a difficult and time consuming job to do the alignment. I'll need to look it up but from memory it was about $400 and they should have probably charged more.
@@mattevans2003 : It's time to get the alignment for me . I run intermediate in 3 different groups SCDA , NASA, ERMA . I know this will help shave a few seconds out of a lap . The problem I am having is finding a shop that can do it ? seems like they will need a couple of tools - a digital angle adapter & alignment adapter mounting pins . I do understand it's easily a 400.00 job if not more . Did you get your done in NC ?
Your excessive front tire wear is likely from not enough negative camber. I too have a 2020 C8 Z51 with Cup 2s and Hawk DCT60s and my best at WGI is 2:10.3 . You'll need negative 3.5 camber in the front (this exceeds the factory spec because the Cup 2 is stickier) in the front and negative 2 in the rear. Your front toe should be 0.10 degree positive (toe-in, NOT TOE-OUT). The rear caster needs to be adjusted to 0 degrees. All the best! Joe
Is it true that for PTM, at or right after apex you can full throttle and car will take care of rest? like if corner is too sharp it will reduce hp/wheel spin etc. So after apex you don't need to manipulate the throttle, just full throttle and cpu will take care of rest. ( will car go side way a little bit ? but not dangerous as PTM will save it?)
@@okaythen001 Try it in a controlled environment - A parking lot would do, preferably when it's wet. On a slippery skid pad like environment you can invoke the interventions and learn more. Try different modes to compare what the car does. The challenge with experimenting on the street is that normally the car has a lot of grip and inducing the PTM actions is only going to happen at some very stupid speeds. I think many people will get overloaded with other problems even before you can sense and learn from what the traction management is doing. i.e. narrow lanes, uneven road surface, potential for vehicles/people/animals to be in your path unexpectedly. PTM is not going to save you from all the challenges you may run into but it will hopefully help. The machine gun noise you refer to sounds like rev limiter rather than PTM. When the power is reduced for PTM purposes it doesn't do that and that sound certainly wouldn't come from PTM brake applications.
What do you think about doing whats called a hybrid alignment ? 1/2 of the track setting .
Originally I thought that might be a good idea (prior to setting it up with the Chevy track camber). After doing a few track days at different tracks (with the recommended camber), I found it performed well and I believe the concern about inside edge tire wear is not that big a deal for the cycle of road and track driving that I'm doing. I've done about 8000 miles with 4 weekends of track days and the outside edge of the front tires is the first part to wear down. Of course if you aren't doing track days for a long time it's possibly worth going back to standard camber. I'm more likely to continue doing a 6-10 track days or or more per season and a moderate amount of street driving so I doubt I'll change it back. Street driving is using the inside edges at a slow rate of wear and just helps equalize out the tread wear. People exaggerate how bad it could be for wearing inside edges, but that means they probably aren't aggressively using the tires on a track - track use is far more significant tread wear. If there was less camber it may work well enough but based on my experience it looks like it could have a higher rate of tread wear at the outside edges with less camber... so potentially less performance and the tires would wear out quicker.
Looks like a blast! Is it set up with track alignment, or factory?
It has the Chevy recommended track alignment. I have found it works great. Very balanced or perhaps a little oversteer depending on my inputs. e.g. trail braking into corners a little late and you can induce some oversteer (but what car doesn't do that...) and very rarely like in this video at the 8min mark I've had the rear slide a bit under hard acceleration out of a slippery corner.
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what app is this you use to capture the info
So, how did you get the track lay out in the upper left display of your PDR ?
It's a standard part of one of the PDR overlay choices. Either Timing or Track. So go into the PDR stuff via the nav screen then look at the settings available.
Great driving man can’t wait to get my car been waiting a long time rumors of the ZR one are floating on RUclips now I might wait for the ZR one
Great racing! love the PVR in the C8
OK looking further at your videos, I see that yours is Z51 equipped.
Matt, I was there in my C8 in September `21. Mine is a non Z51 1LT coupe. Had a very scary and wild drive (my first fast laps in my C8). Wasn`t too sure about the stock brakes and I felt a little fade. Is yours a Z51? When I went to Spring Mountain, I found that the Z51 brakes really worked very well. I didn`t get up to 146MPH on the back straight like you did but I did see 130. really enjoyed your PDR footage.
Great driving. How much training and experience??
200 hp of rage with no traction control or ABS! 😀
Very nice driving. I have my C8 Z51 being delivered this weekend, after a very long wait. I plan to track it occasionally. Can I ask what you modified to your car, such as coil-overs, larger brakes, etc. I haven't seen many youtube videos for guys tracking their cars, as I'm trying to learn from others. Thanks Craig
@@mattevans2003 Thanks for the info. I used to track my Porsche at most of the local tracks here in So Cal, especially Willow Springs Raceway, but it's been years. Initially, I guess I'll add the 2 quarts of DCT, track alignment, perhaps as you mentioned better brake fluid too. Are you running your stock Z51 suspension had it lowered? Thanks for the tips....
@@craigwarner949 My suspension works great standard. It's the mag ride so track mode is firm, without much roll. Standard wheels and tires too at this point. Only significant upgrade is brakes, brake fluid and brake pads.
@@mattevans2003 Thanks. Keep posting your track videos. The only other person I've seen tracking their C8 is Speed Phenom and he uses GoPro in-car camera. But love your PDR view since it shows much more drivers info such as lap times, MPH, shift points, etc.
where is here???
Thanks for the video. Looking forward to riding VIR North.
Niiiice!
There are two parts. 1. gps data logger which automatically measures lap times and saves a raw data file. 2. some cheap software to match up the video with the data and it provides various options for gauges and placement on screen.
What did you use to get your speed on your videos?
What kind of bike are you on??
Which data logger did you use? Great track video with the rendering, would like to see the numeric lateral g-force too.
what lap timer are you using? how does the lean angle sensor work?
What mods do you have on your R6??
+Greg Blanchard Yoshimura full exhaust is the only performance improvement. Other than that, rear sets, sliders and track bodywork.
Thanks for pointing me towards this video from your other one. I wish I would have had a camera on my bike when I was there this past Spring. It was my first track day ever, and it was pretty fun. Rode a 2012 Triumph Street Triple R. I think the fastest I was able to hold in T5 was about 60 mph before feeling nervous. I didn't want to dump my one and only bike, and a pretty one at that! Nice acceleration out of T7 through T8. I got caught up behind everybody in my group trying to go like 70 mph through T8... Maybe I'll see you out there this next season!
What sort of speed do you hold in T5?
+HydeMyJekyll Check this later video with overlaid gauges on the same bike at the same track. ruclips.net/video/48B_WeICOts/видео.html In Turn 5 I do 65-70mph based on GPS measured speed which is less than the indicated speed on the bike (= more like 80mph but I shouldn't be looking at that...). There is a big difference in speedometer verses GPS measured speed due to the diameter of the tire being so much less once the bike is leaned over. Lap times and my lines in July were better with many 1:35s :-) Always learning.
Yeah, what are you using to show the track position, angle and MPH?
Great ride along. I have driven this track in a m3 and topped out Around 130 on the front stretch. You are really moving. The most lean I saw was around 51. Don't know a lot about bikes but that seems like a lot.
you f*cked up lap 8 passing that guy at the end of the front straight.
+xisotopex Yep. Not pretty, but no riding on the grass at least :-)
+Matt Evans I have done some accidental off road at VIR
What are you using to show MPH, angle and all that?
looks awesome. what Track day group did you do this with? I just bought a Suit and am in the process of buying full gauntlets and race boots to start doing track days