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So finally got myself out to the track this week for one of those all day handling+lapping schools. I've had my GT for just under 2 years now and ~8500 miles, wanted to get a chance to really try it out and see the limits. It was tons of fun, the Mach E brakes and turns remarkably better than I had really imagined for how heavy it is. Probably shaved at least a year off my tires but it was well worth it. Now, my only point of reference was my old V8 GT that I took out 10 years ago, but I'd say I had more fun in this (minus the V8 sound, I do miss that). Slalom was a blast, I even passed the moose test, granted at 30 mph...
We'll get it out of the way, I definitely hit the 5 second limit, and some SoC throttling, plus it was likely over 100 degrees on that pavement, there were plenty of jail bars, but honestly, aside from one uphill straightaway, it was hard to notice, you recover from the turns so fast I was keeping up with many of the cars there.
Some lessons learned:
- Should have explored Unbridled Extend before getting there, it is a school, needed traction control on for the course and didn't think about pressing the button to try and re-enable it so just ended up going back to Engage and leaving it there since that's what I use daily.
- Car Scanner only seems to record data while the screen is on? So tried and failed to get my earlier laps, last set I finally just threw my phone into the center console storage and hoped it'd work, and hey it did.
- Charge every break (assuming you can, this place had a NEMA plug fortunately). The car is definitely happiest above 70% charge, and I did get one set in that range, but I was using 1% of battery for every minute on the track and I only plugged it in for half the breaks.
Got tons of questions about the Mach E, it was the first up close several of the staff had seen. (I was the only EV this class, but they said they get a fair amount of Teslas)
Data!
Got down there early and DC charged so I started off with ~90%, was able to L2 charge off the mobile one for about an hour, I left with 33% SoC, had to charge again to get home ? I knew it was going to be a stretch, so hoping I can figure out a better solution the next time I try.
This was from my last set of laps, about 20 minutes on the track, started these with about 57% battery and it showed vs my first set, but was still quite fast getting out of the turns. Hit 104 mph on this set, I think I saw about 112 when it was at a higher charge.
There happened to be a photographer out there that day, got this nice pan shot.
And finally, here's me getting passed by a Focus RS (not totally stock...) actually would catch up to him in the turns, it was fun for a lap.
And a Mustang GT (very much not stock)
And a Lotus
And a McLaren, which I didn't feel one bit bad about
You'll have to take my word that I actually passed several cars, but all passing was on the right and my camera did not get those
Still trying to make sense of the other things Car Scanner captured, if anyone is interested I can try to upload the spreadsheet too later.
We'll get it out of the way, I definitely hit the 5 second limit, and some SoC throttling, plus it was likely over 100 degrees on that pavement, there were plenty of jail bars, but honestly, aside from one uphill straightaway, it was hard to notice, you recover from the turns so fast I was keeping up with many of the cars there.
Some lessons learned:
- Should have explored Unbridled Extend before getting there, it is a school, needed traction control on for the course and didn't think about pressing the button to try and re-enable it so just ended up going back to Engage and leaving it there since that's what I use daily.
- Car Scanner only seems to record data while the screen is on? So tried and failed to get my earlier laps, last set I finally just threw my phone into the center console storage and hoped it'd work, and hey it did.
- Charge every break (assuming you can, this place had a NEMA plug fortunately). The car is definitely happiest above 70% charge, and I did get one set in that range, but I was using 1% of battery for every minute on the track and I only plugged it in for half the breaks.
Got tons of questions about the Mach E, it was the first up close several of the staff had seen. (I was the only EV this class, but they said they get a fair amount of Teslas)
Data!
Got down there early and DC charged so I started off with ~90%, was able to L2 charge off the mobile one for about an hour, I left with 33% SoC, had to charge again to get home ? I knew it was going to be a stretch, so hoping I can figure out a better solution the next time I try.
This was from my last set of laps, about 20 minutes on the track, started these with about 57% battery and it showed vs my first set, but was still quite fast getting out of the turns. Hit 104 mph on this set, I think I saw about 112 when it was at a higher charge.
There happened to be a photographer out there that day, got this nice pan shot.
And finally, here's me getting passed by a Focus RS (not totally stock...) actually would catch up to him in the turns, it was fun for a lap.
And a Mustang GT (very much not stock)
And a Lotus
And a McLaren, which I didn't feel one bit bad about
You'll have to take my word that I actually passed several cars, but all passing was on the right and my camera did not get those
Still trying to make sense of the other things Car Scanner captured, if anyone is interested I can try to upload the spreadsheet too later.
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