Just had a weekend at Mosport...Saturday was a school and Sunday was Solo-1 competition. Mosport is notorious for a couple of downhill off-camber sweepers where you need to steadily squeeze the throttle as you go down to keep the rear planted. I watched an E46 M3 get it a little bit wrong in turn 2, and it went backwards into the tire barrier. This inspired the latest mod in my car for the next day. I call it my Mosport trim.

 

I love it!

 

Good idea, but how often do you look down while you're driving on the track?

 

I get a chance to look down a couple of times per lap...but it's there mainly as a psychological aid. I took almost 3 secs off my time on Sunday so it must've helped!

Plus it makes for a funny pic.

Here's some in-car of Mosport from the PCA website - http://www.pcaucr.org/pcaucr/videos/Mosport.wmv

You can see the 3 downhill sweepers there. The corner right after the point-by is turn 1. 1, 2, and 4 are the downhill bladder-emptiers.

 

That semi-blind sweeper is really scary!

I have a vid somewhere of a Porsche 968 tearing up those turns in the rain...now that was spooky...

 

6 of the 10 corners at Mosport have blind apexes...scary stuff. The car is capable of so much more than I am at Mosport. In all the downhill corners, your speed at turn-in is the slowest you will ever be at that corner, from then on, you're constantly accelerating with your stomach in your throat. I'm told it takes about 1000 laps to get comfortable at Mosport...200 down, 800 to go.

I think I've seen that vid - good example of the wet line which I haven't had to learn yet.

 

Turn 7 at BeaveRun is a right hand down hill off camber turn. If you hit turn 6 just right you will have to do the same throttle application to make 7.

I was finishing 6 going about 35 mph faster than I ever had a few weels ago. My instructor says "Nice job, don't lift." very calmly at about that exact instant I lift while I feel the back end sliding and my nads shrinking.

What happens?

Can You Guess?

I go round and round about 200-300 feet down the track with both feet planted on the floor flat spotting four very nice tires.

It was a learning experience that does not require a taped up reminder!

 

Fantastic video Shane thanks for posting.
It's been 35 years since I drove at Mosport, and that was in a dunebugy

 

Downloading vid now Balzz, thanks........never get tired of seeing this stuff.

 

Here's a better vid!

http://www.davidfarmerracing.com/mosport-512.wmv