Life Transplanet » racecar http://www.lifetransplanet.com Colorado, Puerto Rico and life elsewhere on the planet. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:28:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Friday at the Racetrack http://www.lifetransplanet.com/2008/09/27/friday-at-the-racetrack/ http://www.lifetransplanet.com/2008/09/27/friday-at-the-racetrack/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:07:50 +0000 Britton http://www.lifetransplanet.com/?p=327 By BK
Instead of working on Friday a friend of mine that works on racecars invited me to go to the Pueblo Motorsports Park. I went with the intention that I’d get a ride in a pretty nice Z06 Corvette. At the end of the day I did. There really isn’t any way to describe how a 500+hp built for the track sportscar feels to ride in. Incredible doesn’t quite cover it. This car simply could not be used on the street…Well…It wouldn’t be even close to safe if you wanted to ‘see what she’d do’. We hit just over 160mph on the straight.

The race track is where performance is safe. This thing has a roll cage and racing seats with harnesses. Plus I had to wear a helmet.


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Spend $70,000 on the car and strip out everything?


$500 per Tire and they are only good for 4 heat cycles. It doesn’t even matter how much wear is on them. You heat them up when you drive. Then stop to rest and they cool. 4 times….then they are considered used up.

All in all it was pretty fun. The ride made it all worth while and only cost me 1 vacation day at work. Plus the car owner bought everyone pizza.

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