NASA Racing at Mid-Ohio

I should be at WGI with NASA as well. Looks like a few of us from this forum will meet at the best location. Looking forvard to meet you guys.
Maybe we should all park in the same area with Purpels car in front marked as the undisclosed Formula1 talent?

It's all starting to make perfect sense now, I think I have PD figured out. He has run all these different tracks on....(wait for it).....video games! He has given out all this worldly driving advice over the last couple of years--just check out some of his old posts, what a joke--even told me he had "tons of advice for me if I wanted" on my home home track of Road Atlanta. Even told Klammer last year how to drive in the rain by going OFF the dry line (do tell, sir).

And now we find out the truth is that he has, uh, count 'em, 2 track weekends under his illustrious belt and is not even signed off for solo!?.
He even says in previous post about how he drives VIR on iRace blahblahblah.

Complete and total FOS.

30 minutes after last post by PD, he crashed due to brakes...

http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=873403

mdosu wrote

30 minutes after last post by PD, he crashed due to brakes...

http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=873403

weird. m3 owner at all? photos of someone elses car maybe.

Purple Derple wrote

Except that I have the fanatec clubsport wheel with the BMW GT2 rim and the clubsport v2 pedals. I pre ordered the clubsport shifter sq a month ago I have been waiting for a while for that to come out. This is professional grade simulator equipment. It is incredibly realistic and translates very well to actual driving. Perhaps this is why my instructor said I was very good for how long I've been driving on the track.

If you look at how well the gran turismo academy graduates are doing in pro cars I think it is self evident how us sim racers are able to pick it up very easily.

Well that explains it. There's no question that sims are great for learning the track but I bet it's a lot like the connection between surgery and video games. People who excel at video games tend to come out of the gate with better than average surgery skills (especially laproscopic) but they quickly become even with their classmates.

I would bet sims and track driving are similar. You might have some initial edge because you know the track and so forth, but I think quickly you're peers will reach parity with you.

You may be a good driver, but you come across as an arrogant jerk so I doubt you're that great. And if you were as good as you think you are chances are you'd have gotten moved up or signed off at your second event. Just saying...

1MOREMOD wrote

weird. m3 owner at all? photos of someone elses car maybe.

convienent way out, perhaps?

mdosu wrote

convienent way out, perhaps?

he did post other photos of his car so i believe its his. he also did his own brakes friday night and they failed on the way to the track saturday but he knows he did them right. not really adding up.

1MOREMOD wrote

he did post other photos of his car so i believe its his. he also did his own brakes friday night and they failed on the way to the track saturday but he knows he did them right. not really adding up.

yeah, i was just messing with him. I believe it's his car.

I just think if you're going to work on your own car, you better know what you're doing, or have another guy there to ensure you followed the right steps.

Heck his family could have been in that car during that "brake failure". At this point, I'm not even sure if the brakes failed. It's just so hard to grasp that the pedal would go through the floor if you had old pads or fluids. He must have installed something incorrectly, which also doesn't add up why pedal went through the floor (did he put only water in the brake lines?) lol.

I think it's just driver error.