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

 

 

A Burnt-out Car Looks like This

Wasn’t me.

Spotted in Newfoundland.

Michael Clarke fixed it.

He makes car videos too!

Way more detailed than mine, like, you actually learn stuff from his. Check out his YouTube channel: The Road Trip, and tune into his like-named radio show on 680 CJOB, every Saturday from 6 PM to 8 PM Central. 

I made a new header.

 

 

Oversteer VS Understeer

Still don’t totally understand it, but have learned that:

While racing, if the tires are squealing, you’re doing it wrong.

Sounds all fast and dramatic, but actually only indicates your rookie-ness.  It’s the equivalent of not being able to do a bank shot in pool, which brings out the sharks…

 

 

I’m in Charge of Trees Now

Swinging Tree GIF

That’s a massive change.

The two plants in my apartment are fake. Closet thing I ever had to a pet, was this bug.

This home ownership thing is going to be a steep learning curve.  Right now I’m really into insulation, let’s talk about R value. And woah, there’s so many more bills eh.

But, I figure billions of people are right now handling it just fine, so how hard can it be…

By pruned I mean broke off branches and turned them into spears.

Who knew gardening was so destructive.

New blog tag = house