portlandsvt
03-15-2008, 07:04 PM
Well I just got back from a day of driving school at Portland International Raceway... and it was badass. Too not much surprise I was the only svtf there, but thats cool. Other cars included, a built to the nuts viper, half a dozen porches, lots of subarus, a couple of corvettes(one of which slammed in the the wall, and was towed back to the pits), panoz, lotus, mazarati, and a few other random cars.
My car is stock, and hit a top speed of 110 in 4th, before I had to slow for the turn. It rained alot the second part of the day and was impressed with how it still gripped the road.
Here are a couple of pics.
and that honda crx in front of my car in the pic, yea he spun out and threw dirt all over the track, then later on I had to pass him on the straights at 90mph.
inferno
03-15-2008, 07:15 PM
how did your svtf fair against some of the exotics etc.?
portlandsvt
03-15-2008, 07:17 PM
One the back straight , the mazatati came up on me , and i had to wave him around, that thing was [:)][:)][:)][:)][:)][:)]g fast, some of the others i wasnt running with, we were spilt up according to experience
Moved to "Road Racing & Rally".
Pretty addicting isn't it? [;)][thumb]
Who put the school on?
portlandsvt
03-17-2008, 08:49 PM
it was put on by , cascade sports car club
macdiesel
03-17-2008, 08:54 PM
Those type of events are a blast. Pretty interesting in the rain. Get used to being alone with the svtf. Outside a svtoa event I've always been the only svtf. Like WD stated, it's addicting.
portlandsvt
03-17-2008, 08:58 PM
yea its addicting, im gonna do a few mods, and hit another one in a couple of months, one guy did come up to me and said he had an 04 svtf, but said he was a little to nervous to run on the track, what a [:)][:)][:)][:)][:)].
Volcom8234
03-17-2008, 08:59 PM
Man, I need to know when these are going on, I wanna go to some. I'm only like 30 minutes from the track.
faster_than_u
03-17-2008, 09:14 PM
thats sweet, sound like alot of fun. i wish that we had road courses near me
eventerke
03-18-2008, 11:58 AM
Welcome to the addiction!
JRODSVT
03-19-2008, 01:27 PM
addicting is an understatement.
I might get to run a couple times this year. if i had a race tomorrow it still would not be soon enough to be out there.
You Oregon folks need to hook up with Jmustang68 (http://www.focusfanatics.com/forum/member.php?u=14878).
He's at PIR a few times a year.
One of these days...I'd love to head over and join y'all for an open track day. [:D]