Just curious if my times were the normal for this year car, or if I'm slower than the norm.
05' GTP bone stock. Well maintained and recent tune up at the time, tires in almost new condition.
Clarksville TN track is 1/8 mile and no slips printed, unable to calculate anything except ET and MPH.
August 2010, about 85 degrees and 70-80% humidity. Clarksville is about 500' above sea level.
BF Goodrich Traction T/A's with 40 psi for fuel savings. Half tank of gas. I weigh 200lbs. Had junk in trunk and tools, kids car seats (no kids in them lol) So i estimated a track weight of about 4,000-ish?
First pass, T/C off: 10.5 in low to mid 70's mph, a friend watched from the sidelines and forgot the mph and only focused on ET. I rolled out to about 30' and stomped it only chirping the tires for a brief second. I left the car in first and it automatically shifted second as usual.
Second pass, same launch: 10.2 at just over 80.
Third pass was 10.6 but I think I spun too much, i got greedy.
Last pass I left the T/C on and did almost 11I got beat by a riced out del sol too on that one.
I'm dissapointed with these times of course. But before I beat myself up too much I was just curious if this is normal, or too slow for what it should run? I'm no pro, and the track doesn't tell you reaction times so I am not super fast reflexes and would guess that my reaction time is really bad.
According to the 1/8-1/4mile calculators, this is around 15 seconds, which if I'm not mistaken is what car&driver and other mags published for the car at the time it was new. About 0-60 in 6.5 and 15 second 1/4 miles? I think the Comp G got 14.7 and the GXP was a 14.5 second car my year?
This was a spur of the moment run, I was new to the area and heard about the friday night test and tune and just wanted to check it out. I haven't had the chance to go back since.
Originally Posted by jdmgtp
