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    • Heysie
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      I always wonder how much of the “home made” Aero really work. No windtunnel testing at all.

    • 13COBRA
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      Heysie said:
      I always wonder how much of the "home made" Aero really work. No windtunnel testing at all.

      Feras’ isn’t homemade. He runs Affinity Aero stuff. I’m not super familiar with them, but there are other players in the game that all utilize windtunnel testing: AJ Hartman and Zebulon MSC to name the two prominent ones.

    • 13COBRA
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      First off…Feras’ Corvette is perhaps the fastest car I’ve ever seen in person. on a racetrack. The amount of power that thing can put down is incredible. Truly awesome to watch.

      It was a 3-day event. Saturday was freezing in the morning and then turned to rain in the afternoon. Like an idiot, I didn’t bring tire warmers or anything. I was struggling to run a 1:47 and stay on track, so frustrating. Saturday morning I was able to use the tire warmers and it helped some…but was battling a brake issue in a few corners. It was really strange, because it was the same corners every time, and they weren’t even necessarily the hardest braking corners.

      After bleeding the brakes multiple times we realize the pads were getting knock back. Before the 2 corners they weren’t catching, were high speed corners hitting that I was all over the curbs. New pads coming this week.

      No way was I going to be able to have a chance at 1st, Feras was 7 seconds faster than everyone, but I really wanted 2nd. Nicholas Gardner in his aero-d GT500 on slicks was in my way. He’s an avid Gridlifer and goes to every event. Super nice dude. Well I went out in my first session and knew I needed to run a 39.0 or better to secure second. I ran a 1:38.969 and came into the pits all excited. My spotter checked pressures, came to the driver window and said “good lap, but that mustang got you by 0.035.

      On Sunday you only get two sessions. By the time I got back out on track after checking pressure, they’d already thrown the checkered and I couldn’t get another flyer in. We went and ate lunch, checked tire pressures, shot shit with everyone on the paddock for a couple of hours. Being the 4th fastest car on the weekend (3rd in class, 4th overall) I was due to grid 4th, right behind Gardner in his GT500. Neither Feras or Jackie Ding (that kid can freaking drive) went out, so we gridded 1 and 2. I came through 13 on the warm up lap and slowed down to gap enough space where I knew I could catch him. We went out and both ran 39s and then I decided to string two together and go for it. He started letting off so I kinda dived him on turn 3 and had to compromise the line in order to get past him at speed. I missed the apex in T6, but other than that it was a clean lap. I was watching my lap timer the whole lap and kept seeing green so I knew it was going to be a good one. When I crossed the line with a 37.9 I was pumped. Moved me into 2nd on the weekend.

      Here’s my fastest lap of the weekend. Probably 1.5-2 seconds slower than what I could have done if I had just trusted the brakes.

      [video=youtube_share;PvkzNn6duGo]https://youtu.be/PvkzNn6duGo[/video]

      The Viper did get a lot of TV/YouTube time on Saturday. I’ll post up those videos shortly.

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    • Shannon Whitehead
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      Real nice Nick!!! Congrats!!

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      RedTanRT/10 said:
      Real nice Nick!!! Congrats!!

      I have never been so excited for 2nd haha

    • Heysie
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      Well done! Congratulations.

    • Shannon Whitehead
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      Amazing result. You indeed should be delighted and proud. [ Im even proud of you! ]

      Trivia: “SOMEBODY” named Qartoumy in the early days of Viper ran a supercharged car in timed racing. I think his first name may be SAID. He hailed from TX. Such an uncommon name, they must be related..

      And might explain why Hes so damn freaky-FASSST….. he could well have Viper DNA……

    • 13COBRA
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      Heysie said:
      Well done! Congratulations.

      Thank you!

      1 more event this coming weekend! Then big changes coming in the off season…

      JonB ~ PartsRack said:
      Amazing result. You indeed should be delighted and proud. [ Im even proud of you! ]

      Trivia: "SOMEBODY" named Qartoumy in the early days of Viper ran a supercharged car in timed racing. I think his first name may be SAID. and I think he may have hailed from CO. Such an uncommon name, they must be related..

      And might explain why Hes so damn freaky-FASSST….. he could well have Viper DNA……

      Thanks Jon! I actually had 3 people ask me about the Partsrack decals on my car! Two were prior Viper guys that are now running with P Cars, and then one guy was a Corvette guy that had a few Gen IIs back in the day! The legend of JonB continues!

    • 13COBRA
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      Live coverage from Saturday.

      [video=youtube;sW-2vpxc-FY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW-2vpxc-FY[/video]

    • 13COBRA
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      Second livestream.

      [video=youtube_share;lJJ55-ahgsc]https://youtu.be/lJJ55-ahgsc[/video]

    • Shannon Whitehead
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      Congratulations!!!

      Those are cool, Nick!

      Thanks for sharin!!!

      And thanks for “representin’ “
      Great job!

    • GTS Dean
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      Beautiful runs. Congratulations Nick!

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      Viper98 said:
      Congratulations!!!

      Those are cool, Nick!

      Thanks for sharin!!!

      And thanks for “representin’ “
      Great job!

      GTS Dean said:
      Beautiful runs. Congratulations Nick!

      Thanks guys!

      One last weekend with NASA this weekend!

      This off-season, making some changes!

    • jrubin80
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      Congratulations Nick! Can’t wait to see what changes are coming down the pipeline.

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      jrubin80 said:
      Congratulations Nick! Can't wait to see what changes are coming down the pipeline.

      It’ll be big 🙂

      Thinking 3-4 seconds at most tracks.

    • Shannon Whitehead
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      Runnning Time Attack with Gridlife this weekend. Weather will be in the 50-70s most of the weekend with no rain in the forecast, yet. We’ll be running at Heartland Park, which is my ‘home track’. I’ve only been there twice this year so looking forward to getting back out!

      The cool thing, we’re running the Grand Prix configuration with the fast 8/9 section. Should be seeing some really high speeds! We normally run the bus-stop going into 8/9 with other organizations. Here’s the layout:

      Fast-8.png

      Being the Gridlife Finals, there will be some big name guys there with stupid fast cars. Definitely looking forward to seeing Feras’ C6 in action. Feras ran a 2:03 at COTA this year for the Super Lap Battle. I’ll definitely be out-powered, out aero-ed and probably out-driven…but it’ll be fun! Gridlife’s classing rules doesn’t play well for a vehicle without a VIN, I’ll be running in the Unlimited class.

      Feras’ C6:

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      Gridlife will have live commentary throughout the weekend if anyone is bored and wants to see some cars release pollutants into the atmosphere. Link:

      Live: [video=youtube;IPO5mNywaKM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPO5mNywaKM&list=PLzpPbm7RPHuePFee2p3CqvGXEafLP4QuK[/video]

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