View Single Post
Old 2009-09-15, 03:12 PM   #19
sperry
The Doink
 
sperry's Avatar
 
Real Name: Scott
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 20,335
 
Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata
Class: PDX/TT-6
 
The way out is through
Default

The other thing to note... you're only going to wear out the car as much as you want to. You can still have tons of fun around the track w/o pushing the engine, tires, and brakes. Hitting all your markers around the track at a 70% pace is still satisfying. You don't have to be sliding around at 10/10ths with your hair on fire.

Hell, at the previous to last event, I drove the SVX for a session. Sure, the brakes sucked so bad I had to coast down all the straights to make sure I'd be able to stop when I got to the braking zone, but it was still fun and still useful to my student. In fact, I think it was more useful to bring the student out in the SVX than in the WRX because my SVX drove much more like his stock C4 Vette in terms of power and handling than the race car would have.

Point is, you can still come out and get your money's worth on your all-seasons and stock brake pads as long as you know going into the day that you're not going to be pushing hard.
__________________
Is you is, or is you ain't, my con-stit-u-ints?
sperry is offline   Reply With Quote