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Originally Posted by dared3vil0
Well that was a fun trip! 5 days, 4,000km, a track day, beautiful roads, amazing weather, great people. ORP was awesome as expected. 6x 25-30 minute sessions, I had quite a fun time! My car performed FLAWLESSLY! i beat on it really, really hard each and every session.
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I need a better car. The BFG Comp's are a good tire, my suspension is dialed in, I had good brakes, but as is evident, my driving skill has increased far past what my car is capable of. I might be jumping ship to something like a Carrera 2S, or a Corvette soon. Don't get me wrong, this is an extremely capable car, but I want more.
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Good to see that you are having fun, and that you are improving!
Before jumping into something that offers a higher level of performance, may I make the following few suggestions instead?
1) Max out your car a bit more first. I am not familiar with what modifications you have, other than the fact that I remember you having some upgraded brakes. At a minimum, upgrade your tires, and possibly go wider with your wheels as well -- as wide as the fenders will allow. Your BFG Comp2 is a good tire, but it is still easily 1 tier away from the best 200TW street tires. There is quite a noticeable difference between the 200TW extreme performance tires and what you are using on the Stang right now, and we haven't even gotten into the competition grade RA1, R888, etc. yet. With bigger, grippier tires, you give yourself the potential to carry more speed through the turns, and that in turn will require improved driver skills coming from you to manage that all that extra speed not just around the turns, but also throughout the course.
Then, as you get more grip out of your tires, your suspension will start becoming inadequate to handle all that extra grip and speed. And then you'll start complaining and put in better shocks and/or stiffer springs. Then you'll start complaining there is not enough power to use all that grip and suspension. Then you'll complain you don't have enough brakes to haul the car down. And the fun cycle repeats.
2) The intermediate run group is always a mixed bag. You have novices that have just done this lapping stuff often enough to graduate from the novice group; you have veteran drivers that have been enjoying this hobby for a long time; and then you have some very fast drivers that, for whatever reason, choose to take a step back from the really fast advanced group. If you find that you're doing well in the intermediate group, the natural progression is to move into the advanced group and "go play with the big boys", so to speak. Every time I get forced into driving with these advanced group drivers, I get a vivid reminder of "how inadequate my car is prepped for lapping
-- OK, that's my euphemism for "how lousy a driver I am", but you get the point.
As you already know, your Mustang is a very capable car. In its current setup, you might have exceeded some of its performance capabilities, but there is still a lot of untapped potential waiting to be used. It will be fun exploring those unused potential, and doing so will likely be cheaper than getting yourself into a new car.