pics of me at advanced driving school at Mosport this weekend

[MarkD]

I just got back from a 2 day advanced driving school, and the first time I've driven the M5 on a bigger track. (I was at a small driver training track in July)

Here are some pictures :
http://community.webshots.com/scripts/show.fcgi?t=slideshow&ID=186924082&key=gXKOiQ&pos=0

Mark

[Kamil]

sweet!

The 18" rims are not "too big" for the track purposes?

What track is this?

[MarkD]

sweet!

The 18" rims are not "too big" for the track purposes?

What track is this?


I would have liked to use some 17" but didn't have any. Maybe when I sell some more chips and OBD-II software I can buy some track wheels and tires.

The track is Mostport International Raceway. Have a look here for info on our club events:
http://www.trillium-bmwclub.ca/trillium/site/page.jsp?DriverTraining

and here for info on Mosport:

http://www.trillium-bmwclub.ca/trillium/site/page.jsp?AboutMosport

and here is a video of a few laps around the track:

http://www.trillium-bmwclub.ca/videos/Mosport.wmv


Mark

[Geoff Hoad]

Great photos Mark. Nice to see you exercise the car and it looks like you were doing some good lines as well.

[Jeff N.]

Looks nicely buttoned up Mark. How'd it feel? What tires were you running?

[MarkD]

Looks nicely buttoned up Mark. How'd it feel? What tires were you running?


It felt very good. Just a bit of understeer. I was using Bridgestone S03's, 245/40/18. The car has adjustable Koni's all around and an RD strut brace. (plus my chip, already installed by the previous owner)

Mark

[TCD]

I just got back from a 2 day advanced driving school, and the first time I've driven the M5 on a bigger track. (I was at a small driver training track in July)

Here are some pictures :
http://community.webshots.com/scripts/show.fcgi?t=slideshow&ID=186924082&key=gXKOiQ&pos=0

Mark

[Jeff N.]

Cool. I have yet to hear a bad report on the S03s...everyone seems to love them..

[mike wong]

are you running 245's all around?
mike

[MarkD]

are you running 245's all around?
mike


Yes I am, on 8.5x18's on the back and 8 x 18 on the front.

Mark

[MarkD]

what was your top speed on the track

I don't think that I got above 200 km/hr during the times I looked at the speedo but there were a few times I felt I was faster, butr did not look.

Mark

[Oldgreene34]

Hi Mark,

We won't tell them my speed at the end of the back straight. But maybe the fact that I out pulled the faster of the two yellow E46 M3 all the way up the straight might open the door to some guessing.

Could be that that is why Todd asked,,?

Nice shots,
Dave

[MarkD]

Hi Mark,

We won't tell them my speed at the end of the back straight. But maybe the fact that I out pulled the faster of the two yellow E46 M3 all the way up the straight might open the door to some guessing.

Could be that that is why Todd asked,,?

Nice shots,
Dave

I think Todd asked because he thought we went to the drag strip. :D

But I am wondering why my car seemed to be pulling slowly on the back stretch. I had expected to easily get it up to 225 or so.

Mark

[Oldgreene34]

Last time, naturally aspired, working my car hard I was into the low 190's. This past weekend I could reach close to 220 even short shifting at 6000. But the car got light going into the braking zone and I had to brake way to hard to enter '8' smoothly so I typically didn't do much more that 210. A couple of times I just let it run into the rev limiter in 4th to avoid a shift into and back out of fifth.

Great weekend,
Dave