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SteveA

The best part of the V1 is that in casual driving you don't have to worry about doing a little over the speed limit. My V1 has always gone of well in advance of the cop being in visual range.

Also, apparently, theres a mode you can modify the exact way the modes work. I can't find the link right now though...

Ted

1. Pano is fine but are you reading the Nor'Easter as well?

2. You could always just drive around in 3rd gear. Or another way to mitigate the "need for speed" is to sign up for the May 7th DE event. Some track time always helps lessen my desire to put my foot down in an inappropriate location.

3. My Valentine One is by far the best detector I've used. And driving a Porsche will generally increase the likely hood of being stopped just because it's going to be noticed and even if you weren't speeding this time, you probably were before ( or will again ) so here's your ticket. (Just be glad your not the guy in the Red Ferrari 599 with the Blond. That's apparently a prima fascia ticket-able offense.)

4. It must be spring. So far today I've seen 2 Ferraris, a clean 68 Vette, a GTO and several other Porsches, And that's just on a couple of short trips into Concord Center. The first nice weekend day and everybody takes the car covers off and goes for a ride.

carpundit

Ted, I'm well past the age where I want to cut it up on the back roads or pass in the short passing zones of the highway out here on Cape Cod. It's too damn dangerous, and I have kids, and so do other people, and now that I'm a grown up I see that stupid actions have disastrous consequences. That said, I don't think any amount of wisdom will take away the lah-de-dah-holy-shit-I'm-going-85! I get out of that 996 on the interstates.

I'd like to try a DE, though. With the BMWCCA, my 325i cabrio was banned, so I didn't have a ride for their schools. PCA takes cabs, so it's a possibility for me. But that awareness of consequences I mentioned makes me loathe to get on any kind of track without a roll cage in the thing.

I don't know about Nor'Easter. Can you enlighten me?

CP

Erik

"I'm well past the age where I want to cut it up on the back roads or pass in the short passing zones of the highway out here on Cape Cod. It's too damn dangerous, and I have kids, and so do other people, and now that I'm a grown up I see that stupid actions have disastrous consequences."


Ah, I remember those days.

They never made a movie called the Orleans drift...

Ted

Carpe

The Nor'Easter is the Northeast regions monthly newsletter. When you joined you would have started to receive a monthly copy for the first year. The next year requires an additional subscription payment above the National dues ( which covers Pano ) However, It's now also available in PDF form on the website http://www.porschenet.com/ The newsletter is what you need to find out about all the region's events. There is extensive info on the DE Program in Feb and March issues as well as the DE section of the Web site. The First DE event this year is a one day novice oriented event at NHIS May 7th. If you're still unsure you can come up just to watch see how it all works. But contact the Track Chair first. You'll see a number of Cabs participating. A roll bar is not needed, ( your Cab has a pop up bar in any case ) and you're probably safer on the track than the trip up and back.

carpundit

Ted,

Thanks. That explains it. I just upped my membership from "Quest," so I haven't received a regional publication.

You're right about the track versus the drive up, I'm sure.

Interestingly, my BMW also has pop-up rollbars, but BMWCCA is strict about the "no ragtops" rule.

Erik,

I have no idea what you're talking about and that's the story I'm sticking with.

CP

Erik

I think there might be pictures...

:-)

Don't you miss the 3 lane section of route 6?

Ted

Video here

http://www.ncr-pca.org/video/Rain%20Lap%202.wmv

The first is a lap of NHIS - note that all passing is done only after a hand signal from the car being passed. Camera attached to the windshield of my C2 ( and note that the car in front is a cab. ) The race cars run in thier own seperate group, mostly it's street cars, all grouped by experience ( number of DE's).

The second is at the Glen, with a "HelmetCam". Even though there are probably 20 cars on the track you generally actually see only a few

http://porsche.magnify.net/item/FMSQD9HGJD485BDY

carpundit

Thanks, Ted. Great links!
Anyone ever go out there with a Tip?
CP

Ted

There are some who run Tiptronics. The 996/7 Tips are perfectly capable of handling track days. You don't get quite the "steer with the throttle" control-ability of a 6 speed, but that's more that domain of the faster run groups anyway. The first 4 or 5 DE's you'll be plenty busy just concentrating on the line, listening to your instructor (until you've been "signed off", you'll have a certified instructor as a passenger for every session), developing some smoothness, and placeing the car at the right point at the right time.

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