Playing with Black Carrera at Sunako Cram School for the first time in a while

Driving lesson at Fuji Speedway P2

This morning, I was heading to Fuji Speedway again.

According to the weather forecast, it was supposed to be cloudy to sunny all day from the morning, but it rained a little on the way, and it rained briefly, and when we arrived at our destination, FSW P2, the road surface is quite wet.

This day was the first time in a long time for me to participate in the square training.

I was allowed to participate inDriving lesson Sunako Juku. Hmm, it's been a really long time.

When I counted, it was already my fifth time attending Sunako Juku. I'm surprised that I've already participated so much.

but,The last time I participated was March 2021So, this time it will be the first participation in about a year and a half.

without attending the lessonI used to go out and playSo, I didn't expect that I hadn't participated in such a long time. Skipping too much ^^

P2 is pretty big though.

The wide P2 road surface was wet overall and felt good. And yet, it's already raining.

When I participate in events, the weather is usually sunny, but I thought it would be unusual for it to rain in the morning, even though it wasn't even in the weather forecast. It's become too much ^^

Great job on the water truck.

Three instructors and gorgeous

This time Sunako Juku also has 3 instructors, Mr. Sunako of course, Mr. Ara from the world, and Ms. Kochiya who is also the secretary general of Sunako Juku.

Looking at the three instructors in this way, they can only be seen by the BMW Studie team, but for me, only Mr. Ara is a PorschePTX, a driving lessonI am also an instructor, so I am convinced that it is a Porsche instructor.

Mr. Kofuya, who knows that, has been reminding me since the morning, ``Don't monopolize Mr. Ara (angry)'' ^ ^

Lecture → driving practice

Beginning with greetings from the participants of the day, President Sunako and Mr. Ara gave lectures on the morning lessons.

After thoroughly understanding what you should learn on this day through classroom lectures, you can immediately put it into practice.

Hmm, it's been a while, so I'm a little nervous~!

For this day's lesson, I participated in the Porsche 911 Carrera (991.2) as usual, PSM off in sports mode, and although it was a PDK car, I was driving in manual mode.

*PSM = Porsche Stability Management System

In the morning lesson, an oval and a stationary circle are set up in P2, which is very wide, and you can practice what you want to practice yourself.

For me these days, in a stationary circleMakes me want to practice drifting againBy the way, on this day, in the morning lecture, I was taught especially "what to learn at the oval", so I wanted to try it (I wanted to practice), so I went to the oval first. .

It happens every time, but even though I have a vague understanding of what to do before starting a run, I still have a bad memory. There are a lot of things I have vaguely forgotten (laughs), so the first class is really very important.

It will be a great learning experience for me to be able to review what I should do and what I should learn in the lessons from now on, and then be able to practice with that in mind.

If you don't understand it, you'll just be running round and round.

Furthermore, by having the instructor actually drive your own car and riding in it, you can experience and learn "Ah, this is how it feels", so it is easy to understand.

This time, I was able to ride with Mr. Sunako, Mr. Ara, and Mr. Kofuya several times, and I was able to receive advice from each of them.

Each of the three instructors gave me advice on riding in their own words and phrases. It was good.

In other words, for example, to put it simply, three people asked about how they drove in a particular corner:

A "Use the course more widely"
B "Too close to the clip point (early)"
C "You have a habit of being drawn to cones."

If there is a conversation like that, I should have approached the clipping point from the outside side, but I found that I was approaching the clipping point by making a small turn from the front. increase.

As an example, to put it simply, while listening to each of the three people's advice, I would think, "Oh, that's what it is~", and sometimes I would combine the words of the three people and understand them.

It was a really valuable experience to get various advice from three people, and it was fun to ride with them, well, it was really fun.

I'm very happy when you praise me ^^

Now then, back to the topic, when I first ran the oval, I had Mr. Ara drive first, and he said, I see, I see (apart from whether I can do it or not) What I should do in this oval I understand.

Well then, I thought I'd just practice on the oval, but after all, if Ara-san is next to me and I can see a steady circle behind him, well, I've already heard about it.

"No matter what, um, I can't drift (to the end)."

yes iMr. Ara taught me how to properly drift for the first time.That's it. From there, I started to think, "I want to be able to do it, too."

"Then let's go," I went to the steady circle and was told ... but the steady circle on this day was small, so Mr. Ara also said, "If it's a Porsche, it's this size. It might be a bit difficult with the yen."

Of course, Mr. Ara can do it with ease, but for me, it's even more difficult than I can do (laughs).

Still, about the last 15 to 20 minutes in the morning? I tried my best with a steady circle.

But after all, even if I can go to the point where I start to slide, I can't continue after that. It's frustrating

That said, I learned one thing about myself on this day as well, so I'm sure I'll be able to take it one step further next time. Should be. I don't know (bearish (laughs)).

On this day, the participants were divided into two groups, and each group ran in shifts for 30 minutes.

The group that is not running has a 30 minute break.

Taking a break every 30 minutes may seem like a long time, but if you think about it as an interval between coming back after a run, stopping the car, and getting ready for the next run before another 30 minutes pass, you should use the restroom. It felt like the next run frame came as soon as I went or rested for a while.

I can run while taking a good rest, so I think it's kind to both people and cars.

What's more, I couldn't really talk to people from other groups, but I was able to talk a little with people from the same group during this break.

Besides! !

What made me even happier that day was that the cameraman who took the pictures that day was the same cameraman I had seen when I visited a magazine.

I never thought that we would meet again here, so I was happy.

I even got a peek at this bazooka-like lens (it's getting in the way of my work).

After that, I took two shots of my favorite sprinkler truck and black Carrera, and it felt like I had more time than usual.

If you don't force me to make a break time, I'll probably run all the time ^ ^

After the morning session is over, it's time for lunch.

Today's lunch was somewhat sumptuous. I haven't participated in more than a year, so I didn't know, but since when did Sunako Juku's lunch boxes become so luxurious? ?

There was one more thing that surprised me at Sunako Juku that day, and that was that the number of dogs increased steadily.

what are you talking about You may think that (laughs), but when I arrived at Sunako Juku early in the morning and entered this room, there was a dog.

It's the dog of one of the participants, and after a while, another dog appeared.

I thought, ``Oh, there are two of them today,'' and when I returned to the room during the first run in the morning and took a break, there was another one.

It became Sunako cram school where a total of 3 dogs were participating ^ ^

Each one had its own personality and was cute and healed. Principal Sunako playing with her dog during the lunch break was also cute (laughs).

Well, I'm going to switch my feelings and start the afternoon section.

In the afternoon, we started with classroom lectures, and in the afternoon, we explained the newly established driving course.

I still don't know the correct answer for circuit driving

In the afternoon, we set up a course that made full use of the P2 square.

It is also the most fun to be able to run as much as you want in a black Carrera in a wide place! !

Since it was a practice, I was muttering "This isn't it, ah, I made a mistake, I went too far! Wrong!"

Before running this course, I wanted to ask the instructor to teach me how to run, so I asked him to ride with me, but he said, ``You should try running yourself first.''

When I said, "But I don't know what the correct answer is, so I might practice something that isn't the correct answer."

Yes, that's right.

What I always think is a problem is that I don't know the correct answer. Huh, deadly (laughs)?

For example, if you look at the place where the 1st and 2nd corners continue in the figure below this time, you will find that if you run yourself a few times, you will find that

"Well, shouldn't we just pass through the 1st corner and go straight into the 2nd corner?"

That's what I thought, and I ran like a green line (I wonder if I'm thinking that I should pass through the corner in the first place (laughs)) ↓

But after that, I had the instructor ride with me, and I was told to get closer to the cone at the first corner (grasp the clipping point properly), and I was told to run like a blue line, and it was natural to do so. It's overwhelmingly easier to go to the next one, and it's efficient.

I could understand it if I was told, but even if I was running on the green line, I couldn't find the correct answer.

It's no good if you can't notice the correct line even though you're so kind to set up the cone.

I wanted to be able to figure out the correct answer myself. And the final goal is to be able to actually run according to the correct answer.

It's embarrassing for me to feel like a beginner.

But what's really interesting is that if you have a proper line, a proper brake pedal force, steering operation and accelerator ON, you can see that the Carrera runs beautifully even if you're driving yourself.

You can tell "Ah, the corner was really easy to run now", or you can say that the black Carrera doesn't feel like you're pushing yourself too hard and runs beautifully ahead.

I can see that Carrera is overdoing it if something is even a little strange. In other words, I make it impossible.

It's deep.

I still don't really understand the black Carrera that I love, but by learning one by one, I believe that I will be able to understand it a little more than before, and I will do my best.

You will be allowed to ride in other participants' cars

On this day, there were people who were participating in Porsche's air cooling, so when this 964 was running, I was allowed to ride in the passenger seat.

I'm impressed by the Porsche that runs so beautifully that I can't believe it's a car from many years ago.

It felt like a car that was driven a lot. After all Porsche runs a lot and thinks that it will become more and more beautiful.

Also, there were 4 female participants in total, including myself.

Other than myself, 2 of the other 3 are people who have already participated in the race perfectly, and the other is a person who is practicing because he is planning to participate in the race in the future. Everyone is amazing!

This car is also the car of one of them ↓

It's really cool that women are participating in the race. Oh, and of course men are pretty cool too.

All the running programs ended, and at the end, there were words from the participants and stories from the instructors.

It was a one-day program from early morning to evening, but it really flew by.

If I could still run as usual, I wanted to run more and more ^ ^

After the day was over, the black Carrera was running in a place where water was sprinkled, so it was bathed in a lot of water and was already black (pure white).

The rear is completely white.

This time, with other people, "It is water that is sprinkled at the gymkhana field of Tsukuba CircuitIt was hard because I couldn't get an AEON depositWhen I told him, "No, it's the same at FSW's plaza!"

He said yes and even said that "I bought two sets in case I failed to put them on, but one shot worked fine, so I have one left over, Why don't you take it"

Is this finally happening in FSW as well? ? FSW was fine until now.

Since the water used is well water that is pumped up from underground, I thought that there was something wrong with Tsukuba's groundwater veins, but in fact, it might be happening nationwide. ! (That's not true (laughs)).

I heard that "the other day, when I ran at FSW Square, there were marks (dirt like Aeon Deposit)", so that's a big deal! After all, I stopped by a gas station in Gotemba on my way home and washed my car with a car wash machine.

Until now, I've only washed my black Carrera by hand, but last time I put it in the car wash, saying, "If the body is ruined by the ion deposit again!"

“Before the body gets damaged, there is a lot of ion deposit left over from Tsukuba, so the dirt will protect the body before it gets damaged.”

I went to the car wash with an incomprehensible thought (laughs).

First car wash experience alone

But, even though I'm writing this briefly, it was actually a terrifying experience for me.

This is the second time I've experienced a black Carrera car wash, and the first time I've been there by myself (last time I was in the passenger seat).

Therefore, I didn't know what to do, and when the car wash started, I couldn't see anything in front of me with a roaring sound, and I didn't know if I was doing the right thing. ), I was really scared...

After experiencing the car wash for the first time by myself on this day, I wonder if I gained another experience (laughs).

But what is the result... Not falling at all! !

In addition to the shampoo car wash, I tried adding high pressure foam washing, wheel washing, and lower part washing as an option. Oh, the wheels are pretty clean (I also have wheel coating).

Well, it's still better than before I put it in the car wash, so I think it's better than not washing it right away.

On top of the dirt from the previous Tsukuba circuit, the dirt from FSW was added.

I would like to wash my car properly by hand washing. I want to wash myself as soon as possible.

This time, I was able to participate in a driving lesson with a black Carrera again, so I think I write the same thing every time, but anyway, I love this black Carrera too much, I love it too much, I really love it I realized that.

Is it because the adrenaline rushes after running? After that, for a while, even the next day, I couldn't help but love it so much that my heart ached.

I always feel like I'm in love with a black Carrera when I'm in middle school. Even at this age, I am very happy to be able to enjoy life with this kind of feeling ^ ^

It was a really fun day.

Thank you to Sunako Jukucho, Ara-san, Kofuya-san, and all the participants who were with us!

But I can't run enough, so I'll be back soon (huh (laughs)?)!

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