Tim Cantwell - Feb 12 Track Day is Officially Launched
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Just want to wish Tim and everyone a GREAT time at the track!!!! Have a blast and be safe!
Thanks for all your time and effort in putting this event together Tim. Now relax and enjoy!:cheers
Thanks for all your time and effort in putting this event together Tim. Now relax and enjoy!:cheers
Thanks again Tim. Had a great time at the track and meeting you and your wife. Was hit by a giant rock on the windshield in the last session but the film installed the day before saved the day. Missed cars and coffee getting that pulled off and a new one installed Saturday. Great time. I know it was a lot of work putting together and I know everyone really appreciated it.
Apollo
GT Owner
PL510*Jeff
Well-known member
Thanks Tim, Shane & Doug,
Wondeful. Excellent. Top Shelf Event.
Great to see a few GT friends and meet new ones.
Good weather, Good track, and Good meals.
arty
Wondeful. Excellent. Top Shelf Event.
Great to see a few GT friends and meet new ones.
Good weather, Good track, and Good meals.
arty
I'm home and rested after a very fun event. Thanks to all the GT owners who came, helped out and had fun together. The track management was VERY complimentary of our group. They said the GT forum members were the most respectful and nicests folks they have had. I hope to do this every year. Doug at Switchcars.com and I are working on an eastern/midwestern event this summer and will keep everyone posted. We'll get some pics posted soon and will have a link to Smokingtire.com's show that will feature our event and Chip Beck's car. It will be edited and will be available this week. Again, thanks to everyone!
Track Photos.
Dave,
Here's a few. Tim Cantwell put on an amazing event. The Spring Mountain Country Club Racetrack cannot be comprehended until one actually sees it. The clubhouse is enormous and rivals the finest country clubs I have ever been in. The condos, the paddocks, the workout room, the pool and Jacuzzi, the bar, and about 50 enormous big-screen TVs. An on-site car dealership!! The whole place is just off the charts.
Upon our arrival the TTGT received a lot of attention. As I was racer taping my rocker panels, a camera crew approached me and asked if they could mount seven cameras and a GPS tracking unit on my car. What for? They had selected about 10 different cars that they thought would be fastest that day. An onboard GPS would verify who was fastest at the end of the day and the winner would receive an acknowledgment on their Internet video that will be posted on thesmokingtire.com tomorrow (Tuesday).
My initial inclination was to decline as this was only the fifth time in my life I have ever driven on a racetrack. The two previous Rallies, a track day that JBG put together at Firebird Raceway in Phoenix, and the day you and Camilo drove through Phoenix with the green Mustang were the sum total of my prior experience.
My GT is blistering fast with Jason's turbos and handles very sharply with Alex's three-way adjustable Penske's and fresh Hoosier R-6s. The driver however, is an inexperienced weak link.
Most of the other drivers who agreed to have cameras placed in their cars were members at Spring Mountain and have driven this track hundreds of times. A Lamborghini Superleggera on race tires and an Audi R8 sporting Hoosiers were also equipped with cameras and driven by club members with a lot of experience on this track.
I'll do a complete write up when I have a little more time, but the bottom line was......I had the fastest times of the day. Every other supercar seemed like it was powerless. When the Hoosiers warmed up the grip in the turns was indescribable. At the start of every straight those twin turbos hurled me into hyperspace and reeled in even the fastest exotic competitors and track only race cars as well. No other car seemed like it could corner as hard as my GT as I overtook everything in the corners as well as on the straightaways. I passed anything and everything and during the six intermediate/advanced track sessions, not a single car, street legal or not, was able to catch my Hoosier shod twin Turbo GT. It was an amazing day for this overweight, out of shape, old man.
At the end of the day, the camera crew approached me and told me I was the fastest man according to their GPS. Second place went to a club member driving a Lamborghini LP-560-2 Balboni Edition and third place went to a club member driving a VF Engineering-Supercharged Audi R8 that crashed into a wall, cooking off both airbags and destroying the front of the car.
Here's some photos.
Chip
Dave,
Here's a few. Tim Cantwell put on an amazing event. The Spring Mountain Country Club Racetrack cannot be comprehended until one actually sees it. The clubhouse is enormous and rivals the finest country clubs I have ever been in. The condos, the paddocks, the workout room, the pool and Jacuzzi, the bar, and about 50 enormous big-screen TVs. An on-site car dealership!! The whole place is just off the charts.
Upon our arrival the TTGT received a lot of attention. As I was racer taping my rocker panels, a camera crew approached me and asked if they could mount seven cameras and a GPS tracking unit on my car. What for? They had selected about 10 different cars that they thought would be fastest that day. An onboard GPS would verify who was fastest at the end of the day and the winner would receive an acknowledgment on their Internet video that will be posted on thesmokingtire.com tomorrow (Tuesday).
My initial inclination was to decline as this was only the fifth time in my life I have ever driven on a racetrack. The two previous Rallies, a track day that JBG put together at Firebird Raceway in Phoenix, and the day you and Camilo drove through Phoenix with the green Mustang were the sum total of my prior experience.
My GT is blistering fast with Jason's turbos and handles very sharply with Alex's three-way adjustable Penske's and fresh Hoosier R-6s. The driver however, is an inexperienced weak link.
Most of the other drivers who agreed to have cameras placed in their cars were members at Spring Mountain and have driven this track hundreds of times. A Lamborghini Superleggera on race tires and an Audi R8 sporting Hoosiers were also equipped with cameras and driven by club members with a lot of experience on this track.
I'll do a complete write up when I have a little more time, but the bottom line was......I had the fastest times of the day. Every other supercar seemed like it was powerless. When the Hoosiers warmed up the grip in the turns was indescribable. At the start of every straight those twin turbos hurled me into hyperspace and reeled in even the fastest exotic competitors and track only race cars as well. No other car seemed like it could corner as hard as my GT as I overtook everything in the corners as well as on the straightaways. I passed anything and everything and during the six intermediate/advanced track sessions, not a single car, street legal or not, was able to catch my Hoosier shod twin Turbo GT. It was an amazing day for this overweight, out of shape, old man.
At the end of the day, the camera crew approached me and told me I was the fastest man according to their GPS. Second place went to a club member driving a Lamborghini LP-560-2 Balboni Edition and third place went to a club member driving a VF Engineering-Supercharged Audi R8 that crashed into a wall, cooking off both airbags and destroying the front of the car.
Here's some photos.
Chip
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Awesome! I take it you enjoy the turbos on the track? Poor Chip with his lack of torque :biggrin
Looks like a Balboni LP550 was there. Nice!
Looks like a Balboni LP550 was there. Nice!
BlackICE
GT Owner
Chip it sounds like you had a great time. I guess we can say that the yellow FGTs are the fastest. Frank will be disappointed.
Chris A.
GT #32
GT38
GT Owner
Spring Mountain Video
Here'a a video of Team Jeff driving the final session of the day at Spring Mountain (with me keeping the right seat warm :biggrin ).
[video=vimeo;9474346]http://vimeo.com/9474346[/video]
Here'a a video of Team Jeff driving the final session of the day at Spring Mountain (with me keeping the right seat warm :biggrin ).
[video=vimeo;9474346]http://vimeo.com/9474346[/video]
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GT38
GT Owner
Thanks!
I've got another video uploading to Vimeo - this time of the GT and the GT40 on the track together. While it's cooking (it'll take another few hours to be ready), I want to say thanks to everyone who made this event happen and who made it a memorable experience for me:
Tim Cantwell for being the impetus to get this started and for carrying it through to a successful conclusion. [Tim: note the spelling - it's impetus, not impotence, but I guess that after a few hours at the winery, it was all the same thing :lol). Tim had a lot of support from Kim and Garrett, too.
Doug at Switchcars for the delicious lunch in his showroom, and for the goodies he provided.
Shane (AZStad) and Joyride for putting together the website for the event and for providing us all with T-shirts.
But most of all, thanks to Team Jeff for all the prep work for the trip, especially for getting the GT40 ready (if you'd seen it a week before, you'd never think it would be ready!) And many thanks for the track instruction too - I only wish it was possible to ride with you and to drive behind you at the same time! :cheers
It was good to spend time with a lot of really special people. Can't wait do do it again! :thumbsup
I've got another video uploading to Vimeo - this time of the GT and the GT40 on the track together. While it's cooking (it'll take another few hours to be ready), I want to say thanks to everyone who made this event happen and who made it a memorable experience for me:
Tim Cantwell for being the impetus to get this started and for carrying it through to a successful conclusion. [Tim: note the spelling - it's impetus, not impotence, but I guess that after a few hours at the winery, it was all the same thing :lol). Tim had a lot of support from Kim and Garrett, too.
Doug at Switchcars for the delicious lunch in his showroom, and for the goodies he provided.
Shane (AZStad) and Joyride for putting together the website for the event and for providing us all with T-shirts.
But most of all, thanks to Team Jeff for all the prep work for the trip, especially for getting the GT40 ready (if you'd seen it a week before, you'd never think it would be ready!) And many thanks for the track instruction too - I only wish it was possible to ride with you and to drive behind you at the same time! :cheers
It was good to spend time with a lot of really special people. Can't wait do do it again! :thumbsup
STORMCAT
GT
GT38
GT Owner
GT & GT40 video at Spring Mountain
Here's Team Jeff giving IndyGT a ride in the GT40 at Spring Mountain. I'm driving the white GT that's leading/following.
[video=vimeo;9480874]http://vimeo.com/9480874[/video]
We had three cameras mounted on the GT40 - cockpit, nose and rear. We inadvertently had the camera on the GT set to take stills (still on the learning curve on the GoPro cameras), so unfortunately we didn't get any video of the GT40 from the GT. This was a really fun session :thumbsup . Come to think of it, they all were really fun - it's a GREAT track with incredible facilities!
Here's Team Jeff giving IndyGT a ride in the GT40 at Spring Mountain. I'm driving the white GT that's leading/following.
[video=vimeo;9480874]http://vimeo.com/9480874[/video]
We had three cameras mounted on the GT40 - cockpit, nose and rear. We inadvertently had the camera on the GT set to take stills (still on the learning curve on the GoPro cameras), so unfortunately we didn't get any video of the GT40 from the GT. This was a really fun session :thumbsup . Come to think of it, they all were really fun - it's a GREAT track with incredible facilities!
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