footage of me chasing my friend in an evo at watkins glen. any tips?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rGxLwiua4w

 

Your line looks great!
However, I did not hear your car go in to VTEC. IMHO you should be in max power exiting those nice corners.
Perhaps keep the slightly higher gearing in to the tight corners - as it appears you are doing so as to avoid an over-powering oversteer, but continue to power out of the corner and get up to full power when exiting. To enter the next corner, brake just a touch sooner to setup gearing and move on.
With all that said... me and my car have seldome been able to outdo an EVO. Fantastic machine with power and great corner traction. But there are a few that we've taken.

Have fun!

 

nice! what camera mount do you have, and what is it mounted to?

 

hmmm....
My car has a distinguishing pull and sound when it shifts to VTEC. But upon further review of your recording, your machine had to be in VTEC before shifting because I thought I heard the rev limiter kick in once.
Your line looks outstanding and your handling looks smoothe. It looks there is nothing you can do to keep up with the EVO in straightened track other than keep on the power through the mild turns... I do notice that you did lift in spots where I'd keep on the power ... like the mild turns that could be gone through rather "straightly".
Your car seems to be nicely setup.
So, I would say for the EVO chase, you'll have to power harder out of, and through, the mild corners and pick spots to apply greater braking before entering the turns so as not to blow the apex.
It looks like you are driving very well, but I think that you could gain some straight line speed by pressing the power a bit more. But with that comes a change in braking for the next turn. Best to brake smoothely, then apply greater pressure to not upset the car and not blow the apex.
Everything else looks great!
You've gotta admit that the EVO and STI are fantastic machines!
Give yourself some kudos. I love the Porshe pass!

BTW... that track looks like a ball to drive.

 

it's the io port that most people use. the camera is a mini DV by panasonic. it's a little big so it shakes a lot when the road gets rough.

 

thanks. i'll keep the tips in mind. i actually almost never fall out of vtec. i'm running on bilstein pss9 right now, and i'm finding the spring rates to be way too low. but no matter what, it's not really possible to keep up with the evo on the up hills.

 

No Porsches? I figured you'd have a couple of 911 fly bys at a PCA event Looks good, I'll be up at Watkins Glen with PCA in August

 

there were countless porsches, but none were flying by. we (my evo friend and i) were kinda misclassed so most of the other drivers in our group were less experienced. although traffic slowed us down quite a bit, it was still fun passing cars that cost 4 times as much as ours.