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First Fuji Speedway free practice

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One of the programs I was most looking forward to at the Porsche Track Experience Master Course @ Fuji Speedway was at the very end.

That is "Fuji Speedway main course free practice & lap time measurement".

I have FSW in the pastPTX PrecisionAnd the other dayI ran it on the Lamborghini STOThere are some things, but at this time, even though it was sports driving (at the time of STO), it was a leading driving, and I had never experienced "free driving".

This is my first free practice session. Furthermore, I have never measured the lap time, so this is my first time.

It is an experience that you can know for the first time how long you can run FSW.

At the start, 38 participating cars lined up in the second row, so it happened that my car was at the top of the second row.

Wow, pole position! (← No (laughs)).

Actually it's just a sort order, and I'm not at the top at all because it goes out from the first row first, but when I'm waiting for this start, who is in front of me When I suddenly looked behind from the side mirror, I saw a lot of Porsche.

When the tension was already at its peak, I thought, "It's bad for my heart to look at the rear-view mirror," but I just glanced at the rear-view mirror with a focus on interest, but at the end, it's natural. , Porsche and others.

Free practice has started in such an Osoroshii situation.

Anyway, I'm already nervous at first. But even in that tension, there was a lot of excitement like "OK, I'm going to Black Carrera !!" Well, a few seconds after I started running, the excitement might have been 100% ^^

Even in this PTX, some instructors said, "From the outside, I can only think that a man is driving" or "It's still aggressive driving" ^^ When I went out for free driving and there were so many other cars in front of me, this was just a horror to say the least.

You can't pull it out at all, except for those who openly say "please pull it out". scared.

And, when I ran with a lot of cars like this, I realized again that what I want to do is, after all, "it's not a race."

Of course I knew that from the beginning, but when I ran like this, I knew it clearly.

After all, pulling out the car in front of me is only a horror, and even if I pull it out, I don't feel joy in it. After all, "pulled out, pulled out" is not fun.

The most fun thing was that I was running on a Porsche 911.

First FSW lap time

As you can see in the pictures above, free driving with 38 cars may be vacant for those who are accustomed to it, but for me who is experiencing free driving for the first time, "the cars are always in front. I can't run as I like while I'm there! "

Please see here for more ↓

The free time is just the time of the setting sun and the sun sets, and in this Panasonic corner, the sun's rays make it impossible to see anything in front of you for a moment.

Then, you will not be able to see the car going ahead for a moment ... If the car going ahead is a PTX participant's car, in that case it is not a professional person, so what happens I don't know.

It may have been decelerated suddenly, and it may have been spun or stopped.

When it came to that, I was scared and couldn't enter here at full throttle.

Under such circumstances, I couldn't do a clear lap without worrying about the car in front of me and without slowing down at all, and my car doesn't even have a sports chrono ... In other words, Sports Plus. The bare carrera 991.2, which is a veil model in the base model that there is no mode.

Ah. picture? Fufufu. Do you understand that I'm making excuses so hard and femininely (laughs)?

Yes, it's full of excuses. Because I'm going to announce my first FSW lap time in my life! !!

Excuse me, but anyway, my first FSW free practice lap time is ...

The time is ...

Embarrassing ...

but! !!

Hi, my first FSW free practice lap time in my life is "2'06.918"was! !! !!

Well, I don't think I'm convinced (laughs).

No, I'm very happy that it was this time for my first free practice, and I'm satisfied when it comes to satisfaction ^^

This is one lap during my free run ↓ I think it is not the best lap because it is slipping after the Dunlop corner, but this lap is probably when the car was the least in front, so here I would like to post it.

It's for my own record and memorial, so I don't need to remind you that I'm not good at it ... I'm dented, so please stop (laughs). I know my ability best ^^

Since it is a dashcam video, the video starts at a strange timing (video from the first corner) ↓

Even so, what surprised me when I tried the first free practice this time was that the tires would be damaged in less than 20 minutes when I tried to drive on the circuit like this (I). Carrera's tires are Yokohama ADVAN Sport).

This was my first experience and I was really surprised.

I've heard that tires are ruined when I often watch races or hear stories from people who are racing, but I experienced it myself and said, "Oh, this is it! ! ”.

This is when I got "Oh, what's this, I'm trying to go the same way as before, but I don't grip at all! I can't bend!" GR Supra corner, I can't turn at all. ↓

that? Even though I slowed down more than before, I couldn't turn at all and it became "This is dangerous !!!", so I took a break right here.

I can't run as much as I want.

Until now, I've been watching the race and just casually saw and heard about how to preserve the tires and how it's going to be useless, but even just under 20 minutes of my amateur's bare carrera running Realizing that it would be so bad, I realized that professional racers are not just running, but thinking about various things like this and running while being predicted and planned. I understood it from the bottom of my heart and respected it even more.

Porsche 911 Elementary Carrera with a maximum speed of 265 km

In this free practice, the maximum speed on the straight with my 991.2 type base model Carrera was "265 km" that I could see by myself.

Is the maximum speed on the straight on this day GT3? I heard that it was 265 kg, so I thought, "Well, I can't be the same, but I actually saw 265 kg on the meter display." I asked the instructor, and the number displayed on the meter was There is a difference of about 3 to 7% from the measured value, and it is said that the meter is displayed that much faster.

Therefore, the speed of 265 km / h that I saw is about 250 km / h. And since the 265 kg of GT3 announced on this day is an actual measurement value, if you look at this with a meter, it will be around 280 kg. So that's it.

Anyway, as an index in myself, I always look only at the value on the meter, so I was impressed that the meter value of 265 km / h is "Oh, Mr. Black Carrera can run so fast". ^^

However, I think that I am not good at the final corner, so I think that if I can stand up more properly at the final corner, I will be able to speed up even more straight ... Black Carrera's ability is not like this. !! !! Should be.

*The maximum speed in the catalog value is 293km in PDK

Next goal

Among those who ran free practice with 38 cars this time, there was a person who had a time of "2'00.373" with a 991.2 type car like me.

This person is not a bare carrera, but a carrera S (it was a carrera in the result table, but it is actually a carrera S), but when I talked to this person, even at this time, "there was a car in front" There was a part and I couldn't clear wrap. "

In other words, even with Carrera S, 2'00 will expire, so if I do my best, aiming for 2'00 with bare Carrera is not a too reckless goal, isn't it? When.

picture? Ah? Why is that so? Impudent?

Yes, I'm sorry, I'm getting sick and I get a strange "Isn't it possible?" (Laughs).

but. My goal is to use bare carrera and FSW 2'00! !! This. I will do my best with this as my goal in the future! !!

Well, I don't usually drive on the circuit, so I'm not sure what to do or how to do it, but for the time being, I'm glad that I was able to get the numbers I wanted.

It's 2 minutes with black carrera someday! I want to be happy ^^

By the way, the fastest lap time for the entire master course on this day was "1'50.066" for the 911 GT2 RS (991 type). fast! !! fast! !! It's too amazing! !! !!

The rest is one at the very end.

After finishing my first free practice, I suddenly thought, "I wanted to run in GT3."

This is also a wish with my own ability, but before,GT3 was thereThat's why I really wanted to run.

I didn't think the day would come like this.

Then, I will continue to the last blog about PTX Master ^^ Continued → PTX 2021: Porsche Truck Experience [Master] Other

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