Okay Ashton, I will send a note your way. Cheers.
Pro 6 offers 20 opportunities to ride Calabogie before the club RACES there.
While the Armco is a concern, I found the gravel your body slides on to be more “aggressive”. I call it car gravel, to help slow down a heavy car, not a svelte physique such as mine!
I don’t think 2 days are required to “come up to speed”, but it might take five 20 minute sessions just to remember where you are at a given point in time.
I have lots of trackday laps here and while that helps, it is not racing. The difference between running at trackday pace and racing especially at this venue is vast.
Just sayin’…
pd
I also have a lot of laps at calabogie and i know the Armco is there, and is it is not that far off, but i have to say i have not seen any people/bikes hit the armco at speed, and there is always a lot of crashes at calabogie, but they don’t lead you straight for the Armco unless you crash in a weird spot or way. Of course there is always a risk of a weird spot/way so we can never be too safe…
Is it bad that I really can’t remember seeing any Armco? LOL
That’s a good sign. You’re getting older like the rest of us and the armco thing is another example of look where you want to go, not at the armco.
The trackday thing is far more useful than people think, to commit the track flow to memory frees up some brain room to get on with your race face thing. Takes lots of laps to build the automation software and probably best NOT at race pace for the reasons Ashton illustrates.
And it’s Wintertime. What else is there to do but overthink things?
Cheers!
fmcd
Just to put this one ‘to bed’…we will be running a 2 hour race at Calabogie , the same as the 3 other rounds.
So, keep building those pre72’s and get out there!
Can’t wait to get started!!
Percy.