Saturday, October 21, 2006
Driving Day!
Chillin at the Mazda Test Drive Day.
Getting ready for a race, with MazdaSpeed6's.
Fluffielady, My brother, his gf and i went over to the old Alameda Naval Yard for a test drive day. It was a bit different that what all of us thought it would be. Instead of test driving vehicle, it was more like a game. Our id cards have 3 boxes for scores. We saw 3 driving areas but didn't notice the 4th, which was the one all of us wanted. An actual test driving area WITH the cars that we wanted to test, RX-8 and the miata. There wasn't a map or anybody to describe the areas to visit. We decided to go to the farthest tent and find out that it's a race / autocross type event. It took and Hour and a Half to wait, till driving. They're explanation was that they had 12 cars and 7 of them died from toasted clutches, so 5 were left and those were getting hosed as well. Once in a while the swath of burnt clutch smell would pass by.
The car my brother and i drove sucked. I knew it already at the beginning third of the track. The clutch was hosed and the turbo was overheated. The time to beat was 44 seconds. My first drive was 49, my brother was 44.5 seconds. i then became the point man in giving my brother knowledge of the track to score more points.
By the time we were done, they closed that tent.
We headed to the second tent and this time the trick is to match the exact time posted, which was 27.000. This time we chose the Mazda 3, which felt alot lighter, handle and accelerate alot smoother. Our method to match the timing was the easiest way, a stopwatch. The technique is to jam all the way till the end and the cruise until the timing is right. My brother got it to 26.967! Woo, he jammed up towards the end while i was shouting 24..25..26..27! haha woo!
After that it was pretty much done, everything was closed, can't do the other 2 events. bah!
We couldn't drive the Miata, but Fluffielady and Jenny went and started posing on a show car.
i don't know about this track event. I guess everybody has high expectations since my brothers gone do the lexus events. The super long wait, and i think they weren't as prepared. And if i can actually test drive it, instead of thrashing the car. I never even had a chance to look at the radio and a/c controls.
One thing that was cool though, was my brother and i did all this driving while listening to FM 102.1 KDFC, Classical Music baby!
in other news, my Singapore buddy Jhin is bloggin it (sorta).
Chillin at the Mazda Test Drive Day.
Getting ready for a race, with MazdaSpeed6's.
Fluffielady, My brother, his gf and i went over to the old Alameda Naval Yard for a test drive day. It was a bit different that what all of us thought it would be. Instead of test driving vehicle, it was more like a game. Our id cards have 3 boxes for scores. We saw 3 driving areas but didn't notice the 4th, which was the one all of us wanted. An actual test driving area WITH the cars that we wanted to test, RX-8 and the miata. There wasn't a map or anybody to describe the areas to visit. We decided to go to the farthest tent and find out that it's a race / autocross type event. It took and Hour and a Half to wait, till driving. They're explanation was that they had 12 cars and 7 of them died from toasted clutches, so 5 were left and those were getting hosed as well. Once in a while the swath of burnt clutch smell would pass by.
The car my brother and i drove sucked. I knew it already at the beginning third of the track. The clutch was hosed and the turbo was overheated. The time to beat was 44 seconds. My first drive was 49, my brother was 44.5 seconds. i then became the point man in giving my brother knowledge of the track to score more points.
By the time we were done, they closed that tent.
We headed to the second tent and this time the trick is to match the exact time posted, which was 27.000. This time we chose the Mazda 3, which felt alot lighter, handle and accelerate alot smoother. Our method to match the timing was the easiest way, a stopwatch. The technique is to jam all the way till the end and the cruise until the timing is right. My brother got it to 26.967! Woo, he jammed up towards the end while i was shouting 24..25..26..27! haha woo!
After that it was pretty much done, everything was closed, can't do the other 2 events. bah!
We couldn't drive the Miata, but Fluffielady and Jenny went and started posing on a show car.
i don't know about this track event. I guess everybody has high expectations since my brothers gone do the lexus events. The super long wait, and i think they weren't as prepared. And if i can actually test drive it, instead of thrashing the car. I never even had a chance to look at the radio and a/c controls.
One thing that was cool though, was my brother and i did all this driving while listening to FM 102.1 KDFC, Classical Music baby!
in other news, my Singapore buddy Jhin is bloggin it (sorta).
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