GreenGSX
DSM Wiseman
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- May 13, 2002
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Rochester,
New York
The One Lap team had two events today, the first one being the wet skid pad at the Tire Rack facility in South Bend.
The skid pad is the testing grounds used by Tire Rack to rate their tires on different vehicles. The concept is easy. You drive around the circle as fast as possible, which gets recorded on a time. By recording time around the circle, they are able to calculate the lateral G forces on the car. The higher G forces, the better grip the tire has. This portion of the even was the wet skid pad and there is a dry skid pad at the end of the event.
It is of course different, with different cars, and even more of a challenge never being around the circle before or knowing what to expect.
Stephen ran the skid pad this morning, which went awesome. We didn't know how well we ranked until later when we found out we placed 9th overall and put us into 2nd place for the mid-priced sedan class.
We ended up pulling .872 later G's based of the cumulative lap times.
We currently traveling from Indiana to Kentucky. I hope to get some photos up when we arrive at the hotel.
The skid pad is the testing grounds used by Tire Rack to rate their tires on different vehicles. The concept is easy. You drive around the circle as fast as possible, which gets recorded on a time. By recording time around the circle, they are able to calculate the lateral G forces on the car. The higher G forces, the better grip the tire has. This portion of the even was the wet skid pad and there is a dry skid pad at the end of the event.
It is of course different, with different cars, and even more of a challenge never being around the circle before or knowing what to expect.
Stephen ran the skid pad this morning, which went awesome. We didn't know how well we ranked until later when we found out we placed 9th overall and put us into 2nd place for the mid-priced sedan class.
We ended up pulling .872 later G's based of the cumulative lap times.
We currently traveling from Indiana to Kentucky. I hope to get some photos up when we arrive at the hotel.
