It is sad, winter is upon us, North East DE programs are winding down. Although few events are still available, it is time for me to close the season with one more autox event left at the end of the month.
Past weekend was the last DE with the Porsche club. The weather was just perfect both days for being on track. Social atmosphere was as good as it gets with many friends around. Unfortunately, there were more than just a few incidents on track as well that, unluckily, impacted my run group more than others I think, I lost some track time. Thankfully, none of the incidents were major ones over the weekend; mostly P-cars spilling oil or coolant, minor off-track excursions pushing dirt on track, one old and track prepped E36 broke a front suspension. A friend’s 992 T model ran out of its rear brake pads in a single day, and he had to hang his helmet and go home not running the second day, which sucked of course.
I had about 40% pad left before the event, and now down to about 25%. Still the RSL29s were great all year, never showed any sign of getting weak. A major contributor to such good performance is the brake cooling I had put on – by Speed Engineering – and I am so glad I did. I had full confidence in the brakes all year.
The G80 handled the entire season with flying colors. it never had an issue, ran at top performance and returned home without a single creek or rattle in the car. I really cannot ask for more from a car, multiple personalities and all performed exemplary.
My brake pads and tires lasted the season; 8 track days, 4 autoxes and just shy of 500 track miles. The PS4S tires performed okay, certainly not the fastest but handled the duty. This last event, I had run through the entire thread, and although they still handled the high-speed corners well, it lacked serious grip in slower corner interestingly. Also, I had trouble getting heat into them, as hard as I ran them, the tire temps never went above 170 degF.
Overall had great time with this car on and off the track, it is probably one of the best I have ever owned.