Barber Motorsports park is a beautiful facility. It's so close to my house that I can hear the week end events the track hosts sitting on my deck on a Sunday. The Porsche Driving experience is hosted by that track, the Honda Indy Gran Prix, and numerous motorcycle events run there rain or shine most every week end.
Driving the BMWs like I do, I'm seriously considering taking the monster there and running some laps. From what little I have learned, I should be able to get into there to do that on any weekend that they have a sportsman level event as long as the monster will meet the tech requirements, and I have a helmet.
At the same time, I know that I can drive a BMW as well as I can partially because the car is full of the current technology to make up for my actual lack of driving skill. ( ABS, DSC, T/C) None of which the Monster has.
I talk with BMW customers that regularly take their cars out there, and they are routinely wasting 2000.00 worth of Pirelli rubber because of it.
Which brings me to the questions..
Will I have to have softer tires, or can I go there with street rubber like the Sumitomo HTZ crap that is currently on the monster?
What wear and tear items are gonna be suspect? This car has Cobra brakes, but nothing better than stock SN 95 stuff. The struts up front are stock KYB Gas adjusts, with very soft 175# springs, and the rears are Strange single adj coil overs, with equally soft 125# rears...
On one hand I'd like to see if I get the bug to do this more regularly, but I don't want to go out and dump a bunch of money into upgrading the monster to full road race spec just to be able to find out. On the other hand, I'd really, really, really hate to wad that car up because I pushed it too hard into a corner with street level stuff...
On the third hand,...maybe I should just stay in my lane, and keep the monster off of the track altogether.
Driving the BMWs like I do, I'm seriously considering taking the monster there and running some laps. From what little I have learned, I should be able to get into there to do that on any weekend that they have a sportsman level event as long as the monster will meet the tech requirements, and I have a helmet.
At the same time, I know that I can drive a BMW as well as I can partially because the car is full of the current technology to make up for my actual lack of driving skill. ( ABS, DSC, T/C) None of which the Monster has.
I talk with BMW customers that regularly take their cars out there, and they are routinely wasting 2000.00 worth of Pirelli rubber because of it.
Which brings me to the questions..
Will I have to have softer tires, or can I go there with street rubber like the Sumitomo HTZ crap that is currently on the monster?
What wear and tear items are gonna be suspect? This car has Cobra brakes, but nothing better than stock SN 95 stuff. The struts up front are stock KYB Gas adjusts, with very soft 175# springs, and the rears are Strange single adj coil overs, with equally soft 125# rears...
On one hand I'd like to see if I get the bug to do this more regularly, but I don't want to go out and dump a bunch of money into upgrading the monster to full road race spec just to be able to find out. On the other hand, I'd really, really, really hate to wad that car up because I pushed it too hard into a corner with street level stuff...
On the third hand,...maybe I should just stay in my lane, and keep the monster off of the track altogether.