Last track day of the year: a new PB
My last track day of the year was this last weekend. I ended up setting a new PB by about 0.8s. Optimal says I have a 1:18 flat in me on the Catalyst. I was 2nd on transponders for the day, and 14th on Garmin Catalyst leaderboard for the year.
No real issues this outing. Tires are almost smooth at this point. 8 track days and assorted autocross on the NS-2R. Obviously the grip isn’t falling off much, or I’m getting better at a rate faster than it has. 😛 I’m debating on what I want to try for tires next year. The ns-2r are pretty inexpensive for the size. They wear okay and feel good. I’m wondering if there will be more pace in a ECF? The NS-2R is a pretty old compound at this point. They seem to be about a decade old. I wouldn’t mind something that had better autox pace, but everything good at autox seems to melt. 315/30 r18 also isn’t available in a lot of the popular 200tw tires.
Only real things to check on were the brakes squealing on the way home. Maybe something dragging, or I hit a wear scrapper? The brakes feel fine on brake, but the pedal is a little soft at stop lights. Traditionally that’d be a master cylinder leak, but I did just replace it. Maybe I’ll get around to converting over to manual brakes and ditch the iffy c5 MC. FDF has a nice looking kit.
