Time to play with the new video camera

[Charlie]

New pavement at Mid Ohio, they finished laying it down less than 48 hours ago, needless to say, it was a little touch and go today. Fresh pavement, no more concrete ,and totally new curbs. It's a completely different track out there.

~25 mb, shot with my new toy, a cheapie little Canon ZR100 DV camera. Native 16x9 and a wide angle lense do a pretty sweet job.

http://www.charliegrafton.com/videos/MidOhnewsurface.wmv

-Charlie

[bmwm3n528]

Like I said, you've really become super smooth...despite the new track conditions.

Video quality is a lot better than your previous.

[Bavarian3]

Much better video than your other ones..

Track doesn't seem to be as much 'fun' (wrong choice of word)...

Nice though...

[Dave]

Looks much different than it did before. Nice quality video.

[rwh11385]

Walls. Too scary for me.


Motel 6 film quality should be better as well. That's some good res.

[E30 Wagen]

That looks like fun. What kind of speeds you see on a track like that?

[PeaveyBassist]

Looks like he goes to around 110 or so. Maybe just 100. Hard to see the speedo.

Will

[Charlie]

Looks like he goes to around 110 or so. Maybe just 100. Hard to see the speedo.

Will

Actually hitting about 124 on the back straight before I started backing off due to the brakes starting to fade.

http://www.charliegrafton.com/videos/MidOhApril9th.wmv

-Charlie

[PeaveyBassist]

I thought it was around 120 but I didnt want to guess too high :) Do you have a chip charlie? Mine cuts fuel or something at 125. It wont go past it.

Will

[Dave]

I thought it was around 120 but I didnt want to guess too high :) Do you have a chip charlie? Mine cuts fuel or something at 125. It wont go past it.

Will

Your car is just a POS, Will.

[PeaveyBassist]

Your car is just a POS, Will.

lol Are you sure? Because at 125 it does back off even with your foot on the floor. Goes down a couple mph then will go back up to 125 and do it again... And yes, my car IS a POS. It idles like I have a crazy ass cam in it lol

Will

[asubimmer]

the late model e30's were electronically governed, I forget what year it started.

[Dave]

Charlie,

Here is what one of the Bluegrass CCA guys said after watching your video - care to comment?

All the fun of a new track without having to spend a session figuring
out where you are going!

Should be fun.

-track out curbing at #1 looks much flatter (I'm not sure if that is
good or bad)
-no dip just before the apex at Keyhole
-brake zone at #7 looks nice and smooth now
-right side curbing at Carousel looks much less prominent (again I'm
not really sure that is a good thing)

[Charlie]

Charlie,

Here is what one of the Bluegrass CCA guys said after watching your video - care to comment?

Dave, where'd this get posted at? I'm interested in seeing how far these videos spread.




-track out curbing at #1 looks much flatter (I'm not sure if that is
good or bad)

It's not really, it's actually a little taller.

-no dip just before the apex at Keyhole

Yep, they smoved that out.

-brake zone at #7 looks nice and smooth now

Again, also smooth and grippy

-right side curbing at Carousel looks much less prominent (again I'm
not really sure that is a good thing)

Curbing everywhere is higher, there's also a nasty one coming out of 16

-Charlie

[Dave]

He posted something about the new surface in our CCA Yahoo group. I offered him your link via email. Then he made the comments.