Sears Pointless Track Config Published (Page 1 of 3)

I agree, absolutely the best overall configuration, safe and long enough to spread the cars out and still maintain the best passing area's.  It will be much harder on brakes than Thunderhill.  This configuration has 4 hard braking areas - T4 (may not look like it, but it is downhill / off camber so you gotta tip-toe through T4 else you go off track on exit, a no -no), T7, T9a, T11. 

If you had brake problems at Thunderhill, you better do something about it or go real easy on them, besides the hard area's above, T2 takes some brakes too, so better get those brakes up to snuff or it will be a miserable weekend.  Our brakes were fine at Thunderhill and we still did some brake upgrades for Infineon.

With the normal course the damage in T10 was from people spinning and hitting the wall on the INSIDE of  T10.  It is a fast and unforgiving corner in the normal configuration, Jay and Co are most wise to run this config for Lemons.  That wall on the inside of T10 has injured quite a few people, so the slower you can make T10, the safer it is.

Please try not to hit walls.

No, don't hit them at all.

Just a heads-up: the Lemons Supreme Court will be harsher than ever before on Penalty Box recidivists at Sears Pointless; if we think a driver/team/car is a menace to others, we'll deploy the dreaded Give Us Your Pistons penalty.

Or even worse, our James Ellroy penalty.

You don't even want to know.

(SAP! Perfect kidney shot)

"the dreaded give us your pstons penalty"......hmmmmmm.
james ellroy penalty.............................another hmmmmmm.

You're going to make me set my parents on fire in the backyard and curse them in Quebecois-inflected English before I go on to assist in the invasion of Cuba and wind up as a low-rent casino owner with a worn-out ex-bombshell girlfriend?

Wow. Lemons Justice has gotten harsh.

Doc Brown?

I found T6 to have very good traction in the rain....however the EXIT of 6 where it transitions to the drag strip DID NOT have great traction....once you come off the banked downhill (three guesses where the water goes) onto the flat dragstrip....it tends to be slippery if you are doing anything other than letting the car track out to the exit...

Maybe I'll post a video of one of my rain laps...were talking SLOW SLOW SLOW....50 seconds a lap slower than my best time!!!  Wipers on full blast, can't see anything....car sliding everywhere....

I'll provide a public service right now by telling you all that the most dangerous spot in heavy rain at Infineon is the straight between T6 and T7.  There is a small river that runs diagonally across the track.  Your left front tire hits it before your right front, and if the water is deep enough, you're going fast enough or your tires are worn enough (or some combination of the 3), your car will rotate to the left as the water slows that left front tire, and you're seconds away from a nasty impact with the wall on the left.  In one 3 hour rain enduro I saw 5 (five!!!) cars spin and hit that wall in front of me.  On the straight!!

Three options to make it through safely:

1 - slow down
2 - move way over to the right where the river is more perpendicular to the track
3 - follow in the tracks of the car ahead of you (my personal favorite)

I hope it rains, but then again, I'm a sadist.

Good luck.

Dean

Very exciting!

This is gonna be great.

KT

Frankly I'd be quite happy if it's not wet. I've watched some in-car videos of driving Sears in the rain and they either involved tip-toeing or hitting some unforgiving stationary object, neither of which look fun to me. I'd much prefer a dry race with as little contact with solid objects as possible, thank you very much.