Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
And it’s powered by the same engine as Honda’s Fit.
Not modified either, total stock. Really!
It’s a 1.5-litre 4-cylinder engine outputting 130 hp and 114 lbs.ft.
(my review for the above 2014 Honda Fit, and a few Fit animated gifs)
Got to go around the DDT track at Mosport 3 times.
Arrow – went off, twice. Too aggressive into the corners + queen of the late-brakers here.
So they kindly let me go around one more time. Got it.
Racing is a real dirty sport, so it surprises me a group with such minds haven’t gotten into this, and we don’t hear more about it.
The WiFi connection went down? And you were relying on the cloud?
The telematics, feedback and monitoring systems stopped functioning? Or instead, started to output false data?
An F1 engineer in the pits can remotely control the car, so how about altering those settings? Make the engine blow, you only get so many engines per race…
You in position? Preparing to cut crew-driver communications, you’ll have 5 seconds to pass until the system is live again in 3, 2…
This isn’t a barely-subtle way of saying I’m for hire, these are not rate card items, don’t ask me that at races.
This photo has nothing to do with anything, just needed one more to round out this post.
3.0L V6 Supercharged
380 hp
339 lb-ft
$110,000-ish
Googly-eyed button
Best engine note ever.
The timer.
It’s a known that racing is a dirty sport, full of shadiness. This’d be a good way to do that.
If I was a cheating puke, I’d attack this device, control it remotely to output exactly as I wished. Or cause it to malfunction, or use your imagination.
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Prediction – this type of cheating is coming to racing, they’re just not there yet (as evidenced at last summer’s Indy, where I found some terribly-named WiFi networks.)
Blog tag = Predictions
First ever!
I’ve driven a gokart on a car track, a car on a gokart track, and plenty of autocross courses in parking lots. But this was my first proper time, in a car around a car track.
It was done in a 2014 Honda Civic Si at Mosport.
It’s a 2.4L outputting 205 hp and 174 ft-lbs.
Starting at $26,710
Manual, obviously. It’s a good, short throw.
I documented the occasion.
My two biggest mistakes are: I brake way too late, and into the corners I’m, wait for it, too aggressive.
Who you hear coaching me is this guy, Honda IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe.
Liked your coaching style, thanks James! Best of luck this season.
I interviewed him for a ‘Keri on Driving‘ column about concentration, here. Because really, without concentration, everything else, all the tech, tires and money, are for not.
And it’s rather appropriate, because Honda was one of the first manufacturers to bet on my blog. Here’s our history.
Can’t concentrate? Can’t race.
Because really, all the tech, tires and money are for not if the driver drops their focus for one fast moment. Because that moment turns into seconds lost.
I’m speaking with Honda IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe. He’d just coached me around the DDT at Mosport (watch here)
We talk about his mind while racing, how he stays hyper-focused for 2 straight hours. It’s an almost-meditative state, he says.
Read it online at Autonet.
If winning comes down to a driver’s level of concentration, how about putting a monk behind the wheel? Trophies ahoy!
Thanks for taking the time James! Best of luck this season.
Watch James coach me around my first track time here.
How he fared in this years Toronto Indy here.
Blog tag = the Mind (13)
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