{"id":16,"date":"2007-01-20T01:25:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T08:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2010-06-22T10:07:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T17:07:55","slug":"16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/20\/16\/","title":{"rendered":"Track day #3 (GGLC &#8211; Laguna Seca) [Orig posted: 27\/02\/2006]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rnair\/363238590\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"412\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Laguna Seca telemetry\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/152\/363238590_50dbb681f3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The picture was generated using GPS readings that I took at one of my track sessions. As you can see I really need to get some more confidence and put in some consisten lines through turns 8-10. I am taking the corkscrew (turn 8) pretty well for a beginner but turns 9 and 10 are confidence turns and I just dont have that confidence in me and my car yet.<\/p>\n<p>I am starting to get a hang of it and my lines did improve quite a bit over the course of the day. Jason (Enigma on Elisetalk) took me out for a session in his Elise which showed me what the car can do. He was generating a sustained 1.6 G through turn 9 <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"http:\/\/us.i1.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/i\/mesg\/tsmileys2\/11.gif\" \/>. I dont think I&#8217;ll be going that fast anytime soon but its nice to know that I have a pretty good safety margin when I go out on track.<\/p>\n<p>Pics (courtesy Nithya Selvaraj) of the track day are on Flickr at  <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/rnair\/sets\/72057594069465256\/\">http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/rnair\/sets\/72057594069465256\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternaterealities.info\/video\/cars\/Laguna_Seca_2006_02_20_Quick.wmv\">Video of Jasons lap<\/a> (~25 MB wmv)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture was generated using GPS readings that I took at one of my track sessions. As you can see I really need to get some more confidence and put in some consisten lines through turns 8-10. I am taking the corkscrew (turn 8) pretty well for a beginner but turns 9 and 10 are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[31,34,284,30,84,141],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-track-days","tag-elise","tag-gglc","tag-laguna-seca","tag-lotus","tag-track-day","tag-trackday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sqPFW-16","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}