Bummer how picky the spotter was though. Rev limited set way too low and they got very mad unless you were completely off throttle in the turns. You can hear me hitting the rev limiter before I even reach the start/finish line on the front straight @3:03
@@StalePhish Yeah but gets the blood going enough to want to go faster! If they still have it Thompsonville maybe Stafford (I live close to Stafford and I feel like I had to drive for a bit) was a Legend and an SK Mod and it is the same dead cold brake pedal but you put so real lateral G's and the SKs are only 3 gears and if you bounce off the limiter it is half the size track so it makes you feel closer to the real thing. My wife got it for me because I spent too much time Iracing for the past 17-18 years as crazy as that sounds.
No speed indicator? I'm way too lazy to look up the distance around NHMS and do the calculations...looks fun, though, if not quite as thrilling or death-defying as your average daily commute.
juststeveschannel The car itself only had a tachometer and no speedometer, so let's do the math! Conveniently they provided me with my lap times, where my fastest was 38 seconds (though one could get that from the timestamp on the video easy enough). The track is 1.058 miles according to Wikipedia, so my average speed on my fastest lap was approximately 100 MPH. The turns were obviously a bit slower, so maybe 120 in the straights? They had some pretty strict rules about when you had to be on the brakes going into the work and where the soonest you could accelerate afterwards (the green and red tape squares before the turns), and I was not allowed to pass until my spotter gave the OK, so I think it ended up pretty good considering! It was a whole lot of fun. My dad did this too, but if you can believe it, they forgot to hit Record or something so we loaded up his video and it was BLANK!
StalePhish I was pretty sure watching you that you were under some kind of control while you were following the red "pace" car in front of you. Did you have a com system set up to get talked through it, or some other method of communication? (And that sucks about your Dad. Did they offer another chance, at a discount at least, if not free?)
juststeveschannel There was a com system in the form of earpieces in my helmet. There was a spotter up in the very top of the grandstand on the front straightaway and I could hear him but there was no way to respond, so I just had to do everything he said. I suppose it's better to be safe than sorry, because most of the drivers are these types of things are first-timers in high horsepower cars and would probably hurt themselves given too much freedom. We didn't find out until we got home, so I think the best they'll do is refund for the video portion, but it's still a pain!
Puckers the behind first turn if think you're going slow catches you out. It is one of the better tracks to do this experience.
Bummer how picky the spotter was though. Rev limited set way too low and they got very mad unless you were completely off throttle in the turns. You can hear me hitting the rev limiter before I even reach the start/finish line on the front straight @3:03
@@StalePhish Yeah but gets the blood going enough to want to go faster! If they still have it Thompsonville maybe Stafford (I live close to Stafford and I feel like I had to drive for a bit) was a Legend and an SK Mod and it is the same dead cold brake pedal but you put so real lateral G's and the SKs are only 3 gears and if you bounce off the limiter it is half the size track so it makes you feel closer to the real thing. My wife got it for me because I spent too much time Iracing for the past 17-18 years as crazy as that sounds.
@@jonlamontagne Stafford Ct?
@@alvinballouYes that beautiful little flat half mile track!
No speed indicator? I'm way too lazy to look up the distance around NHMS and do the calculations...looks fun, though, if not quite as thrilling or death-defying as your average daily commute.
juststeveschannel The car itself only had a tachometer and no speedometer, so let's do the math! Conveniently they provided me with my lap times, where my fastest was 38 seconds (though one could get that from the timestamp on the video easy enough). The track is 1.058 miles according to Wikipedia, so my average speed on my fastest lap was approximately 100 MPH. The turns were obviously a bit slower, so maybe 120 in the straights? They had some pretty strict rules about when you had to be on the brakes going into the work and where the soonest you could accelerate afterwards (the green and red tape squares before the turns), and I was not allowed to pass until my spotter gave the OK, so I think it ended up pretty good considering! It was a whole lot of fun. My dad did this too, but if you can believe it, they forgot to hit Record or something so we loaded up his video and it was BLANK!
StalePhish I was pretty sure watching you that you were under some kind of control while you were following the red "pace" car in front of you. Did you have a com system set up to get talked through it, or some other method of communication? (And that sucks about your Dad. Did they offer another chance, at a discount at least, if not free?)
juststeveschannel There was a com system in the form of earpieces in my helmet. There was a spotter up in the very top of the grandstand on the front straightaway and I could hear him but there was no way to respond, so I just had to do everything he said. I suppose it's better to be safe than sorry, because most of the drivers are these types of things are first-timers in high horsepower cars and would probably hurt themselves given too much freedom. We didn't find out until we got home, so I think the best they'll do is refund for the video portion, but it's still a pain!