Road Atlanta...with some interesting perspectives

[R13]

I was experimenting to see how viable my phone was as an in-car camera this past weekend. (This was a PCA event at Road Atlanta).

So we have SD camera over the shoulder, and phone filming driver from the reverse angle.

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and


phone suctioned to the side of my helmet:

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If anyone's curious, somewhere in the "helmet cam" session I managed to pull down a 1:45.xxx or so lap, which is the quickest I managed on the weekend. That's not setting any records, but is respectable for my first weekend at RA in this car (stock motor and street tires)....it's also ~15 seconds faster than my MR2 around the same track.

 

[itrsteve]

God I love that track, are you doing the December event with NASA?

 

[R13]

God I love that track, are you doing the December event with NASA?

Definite maybe. I really need to get the car inspected so I can run a TT event somewhere and finish getting my license. I might be back at CMP in October before then.

RA is fun, but not much margin for "oops" a lot of places.

 

[itrsteve]

Definite maybe. I really need to get the car inspected to I can run a TT event somewhere and finish getting my license. I might be back at CMP in October before then.

RA is fun, but not much margin for "oops" a lot of places.

Ah, start your TT run at the beginning of the next season and go down for "practice".

 

[Sylvan]

Watching that helmet cam, it felt like I was playing a motorcycle racing video game with the way it leans to the sides in the turns. Neat! It did kinda make me dizzy though, so I prefer the fixed mounted cams.