For your enjoyment, video of me and my VR RX-8 dicing it out at Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada with the Audi Club Oct 1-2. A great national Audi event with 69 top instructors from all over North America, and an equal amount plus some more of us lucky students.-

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- 1st is a couple laps with my instructor and I, along with a nice Porsche GT. You'll see I was going so fast my instructor was a little concerned (needlessly:p ). I'm not quite sure whether it was concern for us or for the $650,000 car ahead? Nevertheless, he was a whole bunch of fun to have in the car and I learned a lot with him, esp. after he took me for a session in his race-preped Audi ! What a G-Force blast that was!! It taught me I'm no where near the limits of what is possible .

- 2nd video is the last run of the event, after I was gradulated to the Advanced group, and approved to solo as well. I got my best lap time of 2:05 in this session, and learned that is (merely!) 31 sec off the (during a race) record for the track. I think me & my 8 could shave another 10 sec toward that time with better tires, and more practice.

I'll certainly return to Mont Tremblant next year - I think it was the most interesting, most fun track I've experienced so far, slightly ahead of my previous favorite - Watkins Glen, NY

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so jealous

 

that's so cool! that's probably the only angle you'd ever see of the Carerra GT...but still, sweet video.

 

You and I would think so, but then both me and my instructor were shocked that it did take him about EIGHT LAPS to catch us, and he was only a car or three behind... and bear in mind ... I did lift & LET HIM BY ..well... because he was right behind me by then... and ... I wanted him on tape for you guys.

The 8 is a momentum, brakes, and cornering car with great overall balance- and once in a good track rhythm - it's really surprising that many awesome cars can't keep up the overall pace...zoom...zoom

 

Excellent video Spin9k. Impressive driving too. Nicely done.
I was at a BMW CCA event in August and as you said, the track was spectacular!

Unfortunately, I ended up being a bit of a chicane in the intermediate group (having trouble finding my rythym, plus I didn't really gel with my instructour) but I'm glad to see how succesful you were there!

I plan to come back next year and redeem my self.

Glad you got all that in-car footage, because I wasn't able to get any for my self.

 

Really great video. Congrats on having such a successful track weekend too :D

 

Damn...got to get a video mount for the car....felt like I was driving. I really like the Tremblant track....Kinda a long drive for me though

 

Looks like you had a great time.

Thanks for another great video!

 

nice vids!

what was that blue car that goes flashing by in the second vid?

 

YOU DRIVE FAST!!!
Great vid, and that course looks awesome. Hmmmm... ROAD TRIP!!!

 

OH Boy! Another AWESOME Spin vid! :p

Would someone please disconnect so I can view! Spin... you have maxed out the throughput!... come on.... come on... come on.... I'm getting impatient!

I know I will want to make a link from my site, even though I CAN'T SEE IT YET!

Tap... tap... tap!

 

That's all fine and dandy, but the CGT is not one of those cars that can't keep up the overall pace. Drivers, now they can give up the pace. Couple that with the fact a door ding on a CGT could buy an rx-8, that 650k cheque he signed to get it, and possibly any number of other circumstances, and it's entirely possible he was driving at 4/10's of the cars capabilities.

Cool videos though. Can I ask what type of camera you are using?

 

I know you're 100% correct. The 8 should never be able to keep pace with the GT, not within a country mile or so...but driver's skill, lacking here apparently, sure do make for some awesome fantasies about what the 8 can do LOL!

Yea the camcorder. Well, I decided to get better video than previous attempts so I bought the new HD Camcorder from Sony, the HDR-HC1. I shot 1080i HD footage of everything, but had to mightly dumb them down to a 256MB stream (long vid) and 512MB stream (short vid).

For friends I've saved a 3MB stream to CD which looks amazingly like HD (640x480p 60fps) with a 500MB file size . Just like being there although although still not HD which let you see amazing detail for better virtual reality reliving! :D

 

Yo Spin.......Bro... u r my hero!

 

Makes me want to drive home with my Sparco gloves on

 

Good Job keeping up with it on the corners

Uh. i mean pulling closer :D

 

It appears to be a 3 series of some sort, can't quite see in the vid exactly as I lifted to let him by.

 

Good stuff Spin!!! Thanks for sharing. It is going to be a long winter but your vids will help!!

Hope to see you again next year.

 

Awesome!! I loved hearing the GT's Engine as it acclerated... Very nice. Thanks for sharing. You must have had a blast.

 

sweet video man. Glad to see that the 8 can no doubt hold its own . I saw 2 carerra gt's the other day at the exotic car dealer not too far from town, and i gotta say they are sum sick cars! I had fun lookin at them, and i can't imagine what its like to see one in motion.

 

Yeeeehaaaaaaa! great vid!