Tracking a Porsche with Pfaff

Pfaff Automotive invited me to Mosport for a track day… in one of their day-lease Porsches.  Yes please!

It was my 2nd track time ever, bit spoiled huh, because here I go around in a Porsche Cayman.

Learned how executing a proper corner feels…. effortless?! Huh.

And did you know you can steer the car using only the throttle?  I did that once… accidentally.

That’s Brad Meise of Apex Driver Training you hear coaching me; thanks Brad! Liked your style: precise and non-stop.

My mistakes: I brake way too late, and enter the corners with too much aggression :|

That’s the thing though: so what I can fly around with a Brad in the passenger seat.

How about when it’s just me, and there’s no cones around the track to guide me, now add the pressure of competing in a race…

You can do this too.

Day-lease a Porsche or Audi from Pfaff and spend the day driving the above track, with coaching if you’d like it.

All information found here: Pfaff Track Days

A Porsche 911 is $1,699 +HST for the day rental at the track, and the other vehicles available are the Porsche Cayman, the Audi TTS and Audi S5.

Or track your own car.

That’s $449.00+HST for the DDT Track this 2014 season with the use of your own vehicle. Because the goal is not to learn how to go faster, but to better understand the physics behind driving.

And that’s what I wrote about for that week’s ‘Keri on Driving’ column.

Read it online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

It’s best to explore the limits of your car in a contained environment instead of a real life situation. This way, when your car gets away from you and starts to drift down an icy on-ramp, for instance, it’s not the first time you’re experiencing how that feels.

Back to ‘Keri on Driving’ – Index

 

 

My First Track Time

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.

Thank you Honda, for giving me my first track time.

And it’s rather appropriate, because Honda was one of the first manufacturers to bet on my blog. Here’s our history.

 

 

Tracked this Today #Porsche

Am still vibrating.

Hosted by Pfaff Auto at Mosport’s Development track, it was my 1st Porsche experience (and 2nd track experience (same track last week with Honda.))

I learned what a proper corner feels like… effortless?! Memorized that feeling.

And I get “throttle steering” now, accidentally did that once. And the CAR. Like, it’s… just woah.

Had a great coach, thanks Brad.

Pfaff Porsche Track

Have plenty more photos, and a video.  Will post that next week.

Thank you Pfaff!

 

 

A NASCAR Pitstop Looks like This

Readying to re-fuel.

Fire-retardant everything.

NASCAR rules state one thing per stop, as in, you can’t both refuel and change tires at the same time, it must be done in two stops.

A few seconds lost during the process, could mean falling behind 5 or 6 places out on the track.

Re-start the engine, push push push GO.

 

 

Roughing It & Noisy Cars

Really great weekend, and one that is still happening, hi hi from not-the-city.

Still offline, still on mini-vacation. Look at me changing, I have a sort of relaxed feeling about me almost even. Have slept in my clothes 3 days straight now, yesss.

Here’s a few photos from the weekend.

That’s me in pit lane! Closet I’ve ever been, watched them change tires and refuel even. That fluorescent vest I’m wearing is why I could.

And look at that crash! That’s the checkered flag lap, and I have a video of it, maybe one of the only ones in existence, which I’ll post tomorrow.

Till then have a good day off, I will *chucks phone into seat behind*