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Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
the bruce:
Thought the 1.4 TSI would be lighter. :innocent:
My GTI was exactly 1407 kg incl. me (90 kg) and 3/4 tank measured on all corners at Raeder Motorsport.
Now the car weighs about 15 - 20 kg less.
So about 1380 kg incl. me and half tank or clearly below 1300 kg without driver. :wink:
rex:
--- Quote from: fuscobal on May 05, 2011, 06:57:45 pm ---Your times rex are very good and now that you know the track quite well you will probably have little to improve unless you loose weight or put on even stickier tires. If you loose about 100Kg, I think you could go for the medium compound Kumhos !
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I am watching the videos and discovering new mistakes. So I think I can further improve my lines.
Compound choice is dependent on the weather. I don't quite have the money for both medium and hard compounds (nor the wheels). So I will stick to these tires and than hopefully switch to BFGoodridge GForce R1 (witch was my initial choice but could not find an importer in Romania). BTW, instead of the appearance BFGoodridge GForce R1 is road legal. Wouldn't like to drive those on the wet, though :grin:
Photo from here: http://www.caranddriver.com/features/10q2/track-tire_test_bfgoodrich_toyo_michelin_and_yokohama_tires_rated-gear_box
--- Quote from: the bruce on May 06, 2011, 12:17:08 am ---
My GTI was exactly 1407 kg incl. me (90 kg) and 3/4 tank measured on all corners at Raeder Motorsport.
Now the car weighs about 15 - 20 kg less.
So about 1380 kg incl. me and half tank or clearly below 1300 kg without driver. :wink:
--- End quote ---
OMG!!! Excuse me for asking but are you sure those figures are correct??
If they are your car is very, very, very light... NeilM has 1329kg! Yes he has DSG (30kg-40kg) and rollcage (another maybe 10kg-20kg) but nothing else...
I am really surprised that you car weighs so little :drinking:
All the best!
rex:
And this is the 3rd and final video from the last trip to Hungaroring.
A few words about it:
- as I said before I made this trip with 2 of my friends: Adrian with a 534 bhp S3 (with a lower bhp setup around 420bhp) and Vlad with a 413bhp Polo GTI (also with a lower bhp setup not sure around what figure LE: He had about 300bhp and ~380hhp on the long straight). Since this session you will see the Polo more I should tell you that the Polo had semislicks, some TA Technic suspension, stock brakes with a little improvement due to the racing brake liquid and updated pads.
- about 2 pages ago there was a picture with these cars and a GTR. Also there is Adi's film of for this session (danishmk5gti posted the link).
- first of all, everybody was amassed to see the Polo gaining ground from the GTR on the straight (the GTR's passenger started clapping his hands when he saw the Polo gaining ground :happy2:). You can see these 2 cars side by side in the video but not much else about this 'dogfight'. Unfortunately the Polo due to the Polo's setup this battle was lost from the beginning (the S3 however has faster than that GTR)
- about 3 laps I am going behind Vlad trying to see how my car measures up against his car :jumping:. You can see the HUGE difference in power on the straights. On the bends however is another story. I was about 1-2 sec faster per lap than Vlad but I could have never overtaken him because I just wasn't close enough when it was time to brake. But fortunately Vlad let me overtake him so I was free to try some hot laps.
- the laps were quick, but not as quick as I had hoped. I managed 2.23.6, 2.24.1, 2.24.2, 2.24.8 on my last 4 laps so I did not beat my previous best lap 2.23.4 (in the previous session)
- although from my point of view there is no competition on track days I must admit it felt good seeing a MK1 Focus RS in the rear view mirror from the beginning of the session to the end of the session. You can see the Focus in the video but because of the lower resolution 640x480 you can barely say it is a focus (there is a better view after overtaking the Corolla). But trust me, it's there. I am not sure what mods this Focus had but it definitely had Brembo BBK racing seats and 2 seats (this is what I saw). Not sure if the driver did not push his car for a reason but if felt good :smiley:.
Enjoy!
the bruce:
--- Quote from: rex on May 06, 2011, 08:15:34 pm ---OMG!!! Excuse me for asking but are you sure those figures are correct??
If they are your car is very, very, very light... NeilM has 1329kg! Yes he has DSG (30kg-40kg) and rollcage (another maybe 10kg-20kg) but nothing else...
I am really surprised that you car weighs so little :drinking:
All the best!
--- End quote ---
Absolutely sure about it, Rex. I had it measured twice.
I even have photos of it.
:drinking:
(while having 3/4 of fuel and me sitting in the car, what is absolutely neccesary for corner weighting)
I know that some GTIs are heavier, but I think this is even too much.
:wink:
rex:
I never doubted you sincerity :smiley: I was just thinking that maybe the scale was messed up :grin:.
I am really glad to hear that you have such a light car (same as mine :grin:).
Cheers!
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