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This past weekend we decided to head up to Tennessee to get some track testing at the Nashville Super Speedway.  Import Alliance was doing a show there and they decided that drifting should be a part of it.  They teamed up with Tennessee Drift to throw a great practice event for a handful of drivers.  Our main goal of the weekend was to get the cars set up correctly, get the track figured out, and to get data.  This proved to be very valuable as we went through many changes on the car to get it to work the way we wanted it to.

At the beginning of the day the starting line was moved pretty far back and we were getting some good entry speed into the first turn.  I marked this on the map with a green line.   With the starting line back that far we were able to initiate at the red line on the map at 93 mph.  Even with that entry speed we struggled to get the car to hold a nice wide line.  We just needed more entry speed to be able to hold a nice wide drift on that huge first turn.  After getting sucked in on the shallow line over and over we decided to put in a higher rear end gear.  This let us go up a gear into 4th and we were able to hold a slightly higher line in the first turn.  With this, higher tire pressure and increased dampening on the rear shocks the car began to hold a wider line but not as wide as we would have liked to seen.  I drew out the line that we were being forced to run due to the slower entry on the map with a blue line.  We really needed the starting line moved back about 50 feet so that we could enter around 110-120 mph.

Halfway through the day the event organizers moved the starting line up 50 feet which cut down our entry speeds even more and pretty much made it impossible for us to hold the wider line.  All in all it was a good day of practice and now we don’t have to scramble to set up our cars and figure out the track on competition day.  I am sure when we go back the starting line back where we need it to be. 

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