I went with Hooked on Driving to Sonoma Raceway April 12th. Very windy and cold. Lots of downtime and black flagged sessions due to fluid leaks and a Corevette that hit the wall going out for a session. Got Covid at this event... even though I was vaxxed.
Session 1
I got out in front of the group and had lots of space in front of me. Session was black flagged due to fluid leak around the whole circuit.
Best lap: 2:04:73
Session 2
I got out in front of the group and the track got black flagged. Seems a Corvette spun into the wall and got some rear damage before the entire B group was out of the pit lane.
Best lap: 2:00.46
Session 3
Not super quick time, but speed and consistency was getting better. The variance for the session was .35%. Top speed of 108
Best lap: 2:00.26
Session 4
Best lap was 2:03.49 but the variance for the session dropped to 30%.
Session 5
Best lap was 2:01.32. Variance shot way up to 4.07%. My notes recall lots of traffic got bunched up.
Looks like I could shave 2 seconds in 6-7. For 6, we need to accelerate to crest of hill and brake lightly going downhill. It also looks like the optimal line is slightly wider than what I was doing.
Looks like turn 2 is another .8 that could be shaved off.
I drove with PDK in auto. Need to drive in manual. Lots of weird effects such as braking hard in 6 drops me down into 2nd gear with too much engine deceleration.