Track Day Euphoria!

[OZCarrera3]

Just got back less than 40 mins ago from my latest track day!

It was a big day. Up at 4:45, then a 2 and bit hour drive up to the track (Morgan Park - ) at Warwick. Its a great little track, very technical and goes through some reasonable changes in gradient throughout (I'll add the url at the end of the thread for those interested).

The thing is, every time I take the car out on the track, I am amazed at the communication and general adjust-ability of the car, which in reality is quite forgiving. Forgiving I hear you say! Sure, if you do something silly, its gonna bite you, no question. But once you start to understand how the handling of the car works, it is actually quite easy to steer the car on the throttle. In fact, I haven't come across a car that communicates what it is doing to well. I think the 'lift-off' oversteer the motoring writers so love to crucify early 911's with is to a greater extent a product of a ham-fisted approach to driving and media hype. After all, isn't it the throttle adjust-ability that makes the 911 such a great race car (apart from the power and reliability of course).

Please forgive me, its probably just the track day "buzz"and the beer (now at 1.5 beers), so does anyone else share my thoughts on the throttle adjust-ability of the cars? Has anyone found any car that provides a clearer indication of its intentions on the track?

http://www.porsche-qld.org.au/images/photos/Morgan_Park_map.jpg