Marc's Public Blog

Thanks to Ren and driveclub for inviting me to their track day. Lots of cars, lots of drivers of different ability and it worked beautifully considering, I was beyond impressed.

hi joon

represent!

I arrived just in time for a group picture, but got in trouble for getting there a bit too quickly (oops):

Social distanced-ish meeting time, and then driving most of the day:

Lots of different cars:

I rented a Porsche GT4 clubsport from SP Motorsports, and Paul took good care of me (thank you). It was a fun new car for me to learn to drive. It had enough power, the brakes were really good, the included tires were scrubs, so that was the main downside (real slicks cost a lot). Still, eventually got the car down to 1:57 when it's apparently good for 1:53 with proper tires and a real driver, so that's not too bad:

after a good day of driving where I used up all the brakes :)

That was my best lap in the afternoon on one of my few almost clean laps (didn't get many) and 2nd set of scrubs before they went downhill. 1:57 is 9 sec slower than what I would do in my F458 GT3, but well, that car is a bit cheaper too :)

After that, the scrubs got worse, and I got more tired, so I went back to 1:58 and above, but still had a great time.

Thank you to everyone involved in making the day happen, it was lots of fun!

The flight back was also nice and uneventful (i.e. good):

Chri5py opened up and Jonny Atom took over:

the whole crew was here to attend

hi findtherabbit!

And eventually Markus took over:

got to use my new outfit (still work in progress)

Markus was nice enough to take a picture with me:

The indoor party used tables with assigned seating. After Markus was over, we went in for the 2nd party, pretty limited due to crowd size limitations, but still, first indoor party, yeah!

A few of us hung out in the back to keep twitch working:

After 1h30, Niko took over:

And that was it for an epic day/night, really a first after a year+. "T'ill we dance again" was today.

Video summary:

our reservoir is very low

I wasn't happy with Vail closing early (again the earliest in the history of kirkwood, not counting covid last year), but in the end, there was not a lot of snow, so it's probably not a huge loss.
I went with Deana who had been meaning to go to Tahoe, and this made the trip more fun for sure, especially on easter sunday where she definitely wanted to be in the running for bunny spirit :)

Carson Spur was honestly not showing a lot of snow, and despite the higher temps, the early morning was on the icy side outside of groomers, so it was a chasing the right snow, day:

Deana got some rentals:

getting ready for the day :)

it was easter, bunny ears

She then went mostly on chair 1 and 2:

A few pictures from higher up:

a few people still went hiking up, but the snow wasn't worth it for me

not very busy

Then, we did something I haven't done in many years: lunch :)

I went on the backside to check it out, it had started to melt, but still had snow:

the wall drop never got a lot of snow, and started getting questionable to ride again

And that was it for the weird 2020-2021 season. Not the best, but better than nothing.