General Leif, full 1hr sprint race at the Ridge!

Want to ride along during my only race stint of the Ridge Motorsports Park weekend in the General Leif? Come take a look!

I still want to make a condensed, highlight version of this with writing in the footage, but I?m not getting around to it and figure it?s worth sharing anyway. I made some cliff notes in the description that I suggest you read, but I haven?t gotten around to making time stamps yet.

Watch as much or little as you?d like of the Lucky Dog Racing League?s 1 hour sprint to finish off the fun tournament race weekend at the Ridge Motorsports Park last month! There weren?t a ton of cars out there by the end of the weekend, but you can ride along as I, Kyle, let Don in the Purple Haze by with an error on lap two and tuck in behind the BMW, expecting it to run away. I catch back up by the end of the race, but it?s too little, too late. - Or, is it?

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I'm getting ready to head out of 2 weekends of racing myself. First stop, the SSCC Enduro on the scale road race course at Jackson County Sports Park. Then, all the way to Redding, CA for the 2nd event at Shasta Speedway with the Trinity Touring Club. I'm hoping for dry conditions. It's really late in the season to still be racing. I'll watch your video when I get back. Thanks for posting it.

I'm by no means a racer but any chance you'd be able to.get more speed with a wider line so speed up through the corners. Seemed to be where the bmw was holding up better I could be wrong it just seemed like speed and traction was getting lost in the corners.

Cool vid this is with the new valve springs? You stayed pegged at 6700ish quite often.

2manyturbos said:

I'm getting ready to head out of 2 weekends of racing myself. First stop, the SSCC Enduro on the scale road race course at Jackson County Sports Park. Then, all the way to Redding, CA for the 2nd event at Shasta Speedway with the Trinity Touring Club. I'm hoping for dry conditions. It's really late in the season to still be racing. I'll watch your video when I get back. Thanks for posting it.

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Nice! I mean, F1 is still racing, why can't we? Haha. We will also be doing PIR Halloween weekend (come on out!) and Thunderhill next month, the 19-21st, too! Are you racing your Mustang in the Enduro? I didn't know you were doing more full on track events as opposed to Autox stuff, awesome!

project volvo said:

I'm by no means a racer but any chance you'd be able to.get more speed with a wider line so speed up through the corners. Seemed to be where the bmw was holding up better I could be wrong it just seemed like speed and traction was getting lost in the corners.

Cool vid this is with the new valve springs? You stayed pegged at 6700ish quite often.

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My lines are by no means perfect, but the car did not have much more speed in it than I was doing(maybe .5-1 second at my skill level with more time and more front roll stiffness). I just finished adding time stamps to the description in the video for the highlights, one of which was for my fastest lap. The BMW's fastest lap with that driver I think was a 1:58.7 to my 1:59.4. He did say that he thought his tires were unhappy towards the end of the race and that if it were longer he thinks I would've made my way around'm. Who knows! With all the problems we had leading into Sunday, we had almost no run time on the Friday practice day and Saturday races to help us really dial it and ourselves in.

These are with our old springs in the head, something RSI put together I think when the head was theirs 8+ years ago. We have the current rev limiter at 7200 and we hit it every once and a while. With the larger downpipe going on the car this weekend, hopefully it pulls harder all the way there!

The Enduro is a really long Autocross run with no cones to dodge. One car on course at a time.

Right on.

That was cool. It wore me out just watching. It's like a one hour aerobic work out.