Jalopnik: Worst Track Day Driver Ever
 

Well, it finally went viral.... this is a recent popular topic on Corvette Forum filled with humor and disgust alike. This is basically what NOT to do on your local HPDE course or anywhere for that matter really. :crazy:


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Worst Trackday Video Ever - Z06 Corvette Driver Risks Life To Beat a Porsche

http://jalopnik.com/worst-trackday-v...e-t-1712375361

One owner of a new Corvette Z06 (with the Z07 performance package) was apparently displeased with some internet futzing about the Porsche 911 GT3 being faster than his pride and joy.

Out at some track day he came across one such GT3 and decided his life (and that of his silent instructor) to hunt the car down. Here’s the ‘Vette-driving moron’s caption to his video.

The Corvette driver has two half days of experience of track time and the driver of the Porsche GT3 is a pro race car driver with a race team. You can see from the slipping that the Porsche GT3 is being taken to its limits. The Porsche GT3 driver ultimately waves us by after being repeatedly out handled and out horse powered by the 2015 Corvette Z06 Auto with the Z07 package.

Commenters on this YouTube video and on CorvetteForum deny all of these guy’s claims, saying that the Porsche is very much not driven by a race car driver, and that this Vette driver is on Hoosiers, hence the added speed. I can’t verify either of those assertions, but I can tell you that both the Porsche and the Corvette are being driven like morons.

"Worst DE vid ever, Novice+New Z06+ Hoosiers+instructor on Zanax" from Corvette Forum.

I don’t know what’s the most cringeworthy part of this video: the kiddy helmets, the hopeless and unheeded pointers by the instructor, the way the driver cusses out the car once it lets him by, or the way the driver just mashes the gas and lets his Z06’s automatic transmission and traction control cover up his mistakes.

If this was 50 years ago and this driver tried to do the same, he’d be upside down into a wall and on fire.

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One of the yt comments posted the other day also summarizes the genius {sarcasm} moves the two nitwits did.... :facepalm:

http://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/...capturezzz.jpg

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The faces of this dynamic duo is just pure LOL... and one is a a so-called-instructor! :der:

Even the GT-R driver bailed to avoid the wacky racers!:bellyroll:

http://imageshack.com/a/img540/3558/SZ06ZG.jpg

http://imageshack.com/a/img538/3552/U5JtfW.jpg

Wow.

I have no problem with that. That's why you buy these cars. Only thing I would have done is to stop first look at the instructor and say "get out". After all your on a race track. You must win. Lol

Haters gonna hate.

THIS ISN'T ABOUT SAFETY IT'S ABOUT SHOWING THAT PORSCHE WHO'S BOSS

:word:

I'm too worried about getting my car smashed. If I want to race on a track like that it would have to be in a miata or something lol.

guy bought a Z06, not a Miata. What else you going to do besides waste gas?

True, and that Z06 for him might be the equivalent of me buying a miata. But that's why I stay away from track days like that even though I think it would be a blast.

The video definitely shows what a beast the Z06 is though!

I dont know about "worst" track day. Guy was out having fun.

in all if he wants to take it seriously, it sounds like he has a LOT to learn. One trip out without stability control on and he would probably be a LOT less brash in his attempts.

in the end he bought a very fast very expensive car and is out enjoying it in a controlled safe(ish) manner.

easy to be an armchair quarterback, even by another supposed instructor/pro.
unless there was some kind of com system it would drive me nuts to see that hand in peripheral vision telling me the line to follow. the extra weight probably kept him behind most of the time LOL.
OK, I missed the point of the post, I admit it. how was this the worst track day?

I just love the grin on his face.

For anyone that has seriously HPDE'd on the track, it's clear the driver was way over the boundaries. So many mistakes- no consistent driving lines, flooring throttle during turns, honking horn, erratic, and even cursing the GT3 driver.... after that run, they kicked him out of the event.

If this forum had a like or thanks button, I would hit it for this comment. Agree 100%

This wasn't just a guy "having fun" with his Z06. He was being extremely unsafe. For HPDE to be safe for all involved, you need to follow the rules, take proper instruction, at least try to drive the correct lines, and not be blatantly stupid/reckless.