CCC Lap Record: Thunderhill Five Mile Circuit

[Michael Murphy]

Last weekend I ran the five mile combined East + West track at Thunderhill. The new west track was designed for Sevens with fast flowing corners, a few very tight u-turns and some dramatic changes in elevation.

I hereby claim the CCC track record at 3:36 seconds. Video here:

http://youtu.be/sY1p0MeY_oU

[moosetestbestanden]

Well, it looks like there's a new Sheriff in town. Not you, the track. I really liked that track before but now it'll probably be love. I've already downloaded the pdf to poster-ize and put on my wall in a place of honor next to Miss November... 5 miles long... oh yeah.

You have guaranteed that I'm going up there next year.

Edit: were you using slicks?

[Michael Murphy]

No slicks. Three year old R888s. Love 'em. I reckon I have at least another three years left in them, then I'll sell them as lightly used race tires.

[mca]

This sounds exciting! I'd like to make the journey to Thunderhill and Sears Point, make a long weekend out of it. Does either track have noise limits? My Locost can be a bit loud, which is why I haven't even tried Laguna Seca.

[Doug Liedblad]

What is wrong with your camera?

[Michael Murphy]

Aaron, yes there is a sound limit - don't recall but it's prominently posted on the signup page at NASA. It can't be too bad because there are some noisy cars at the track.

Doug- if you are referring to the video sound quality, it's an adjustment thing. Blame my crew chief for not dealing with it.

[Doug Liedblad]

..........Doug- if you are referring to the video sound quality, it's an adjustment thing. Blame my crew chief for not dealing with it.

I was wondering why it worked longer than 30 seconds. That isn't normal for one of your track cameras.

[moosetestbestanden]

Aaron, yes there is a sound limit - don't recall but it's prominently posted on the signup page at NASA. It can't be too bad because there are some noisy cars at the track.

Doug- if you are referring to the video sound quality, it's an adjustment thing. Blame my crew chief for not dealing with it.

From this year's NASA events:

Sonoma Noise Limit here

Thunderhill Noise Limit here

Measured driver's right. Both shown as 101 dbA.

Interestingly, there's a sound limit for the 25 hours, shown on the rules PDF as 95 dbA. Makes me wonder. Perhaps loud V8s curdle the milk whilst it's still in the udder.