Since there was no wheel to wheel racing and I wanted to capture some lap times to refine my driving I signed up in the TT division in TTD where the Spec Boxster fit perfectly.
On Sat, not being 100% sure on how the TT points worked I erred on the side of caution and ballasted my car to 2850 lbs (min was 2822 lbs) and gave myself about 10 + points of wiggle room in case there were questions about my classification in TTD.
Ran the day without issues, went to the scales and checked my weight (2850+), managed to turn a 1:25.0 in the very first session out but that time didn't count because on my last lap of that session I spun in T10 and beached the car in the gravel. For those that didn't know if you go off in TT your entire session is DQ'ed.
No biggie, went back out and backed it down a notch and posted a string of tidy laps, the best one recorded at 1:25.4s. The existing lap record for TTD was a 1:27.2 set back in 2008. The lap record was mine !
Overall, I had an excellent day. Hit my marks consistently and moved up my game considerably in T3, 9 and 10 running about 10mph higher than normal. Thank you Mr. Hoosier. My only challenge was a Hoosier that was leaking about 10psi in an hour and since I had 2 students and my session was wedged in between them, I had to stage the car on the hot pit and overinflate my left rear tire and "hope" that when it came time to do my timed session I could just bleed out a little and hit the track.
Now understanding the rules a whole lot better, I reduced my running weight for Sun using up some of the points to take a weigh reduction down from 2822 lbs but still being conservative to leave myself some wiggle room.
Again on my first session out for the day I set my best laps for the day and posted a 1:24.5 with a string if 1.24.x laps around it. Hopefully that lap record will stand for a while or not either way I had a blast
Here is a video for some entertainment from Sun's fast run. (Thanks to Mark Francis/OG racing for setting up a nifty roof mounted camera for another perspective.)
The 3rd lap out is the fast one but the 5th isn't too shabby either.
I highly recommend the NASA Time Trials for anyone that wants to step it up from DE. The requirements work very nicely for a street car and you get 5 timed sessions per day and open passing.
