Track Day

[Jaff]

Great news about Sun Country helping out Doug!

I just registered so I'll see you on the 27th!

[znino]

I won't be able to make it. I will actually be test driving the S in Miami on the 28th. It might have been a little tough anyway, coming from Montreal. Just over 325Km to the track. Not sure if there is any charging opportunity on the way maybe for next time. Have a great time guys..... (jealous!)

[Doug_G]

From Montreal you can come to my place in Ottawa to charge. Full HPC.

[Doug_G]

Just back from the first Canadian Tesla Track Day at the Shannonville Motorsports Park - a great success!

Here are some of my photos... video to follow.


A rainbow of Roadsters, with the track grandstand in the background.


Lining up for power, courtesy of two charge stations donated by Sun Country Highway. And of course Shannonville Motorsports Park donated some electrons to the cause.


Doug (red Roadster #1 - that's me), David (blue Roadster behind us), Phillip (red Roadster #2), Jaff (white Roadster), and Brent and Matt beside their brilliant yellow Roadster.


Jaff fills his pack with "juice". Actually he was cooling down his pack with a little 110V.

From a personal perspective, it was great to return to Shannonville, which was my first introduction to racetrack driving when I took my Roadster there for a driving school. Although I've accumulated a fair bit of track time since then, and have taken my Roadster to autocross, I hadn't tracked the Roadster since then. It was really exhilarating!

Big thanks to the Shannonville Motorsports Park, Rob from the St. LAC club who organized the track activities, and of course Sun Country Highway whose donation of two charge stations made the whole thing possible.

We should make this an annual event. Will be fun to see how the Model S Performance does!

[djp]

Thanks for organizing Doug, that was a fantastic day! Maybe next year we'll have some power and cooling upgrades installed to avoid the power limits..

Here are a few more shots from the day:

[Brian H]

Isn't no-charge refueling of an EV an oxymoron?

And howcome that blue Roadster runs on Pepsi?

[djp]

And howcome that blue Roadster runs on Pepsi?

It's the choice of a new generation.

[Jaff]

Thanks again to Doug, Sundays Country, Rob of St. LAC, and the track folks at Shannonville for a great day!

[Doug_G]

Okay, here's my video. Sorry there's no HD... not sure why... will have to try redoing it.

This is one lap of me chasing Brent in the Dymon Solar yellow Roadster around the Shannonville Motorsports Park "Long Track".



I never quite caught him... mind you, he does have a Sport. That's the ticket... we'll blame it on that.

[Slackjaw]

This is one lap of me chasing Brent in the Dymon Solar yellow Roadster around the Shannonville Motorsports Park "Long Track". ...

Doug, great to see that. It brought back memories of my visit to the Englishtown road track down here in NJ (where I was, funnily enough, today, watching dragsters do the quarter mile in 6.0 sec ). But a question about the actual driving: Are you two-footing it? Didn't sound like regen was kicking in much but it's hard to tell on from the video. Anyway I enjoyed watching a "real driver" putting the Roadster round a track! Thanks - Ian.

P.S. Probably for the best that I missed this thread; I might have actually tried to come! 400 miles each way from Princeton. (Maybe next year I'll make a road trip of it....)